iMovie 3 Issues...

[Rod Duncan]

I am sure Erica's new iMovie 3 book just rocks and will maintain her 
already stellar reputation.

My problem is with iMovie 3 or maybe it's the reverse? I find it slow 
compared to iMovie 2.1.2. While editing in choosing a portion of the 
clip to edit. There is a distinctive time lag of a beat or two that 
just seems to interrupt the flow of work. It doesn't have the delay 
in 2.1.2. There is this distinct sluggishness. I am running the 
latest of everything. Except hardware. <grin> However, it should be 
plenty fast enough. I'm using a Ti 667 DVI with 768MB RAM, L2 and L3 
caches and 32MB or VRAM, and a pair of external 7200rpm 120 GB 
drives. OS 10.2.6, Quicktime Pro 6.3, iMovie 3.0.3 ??? I was hoping 
the most recent upgrade would have fixed this. I know it addressed a 
number of issues but...

I also had it crash and lose all of the clips I had imported into the 
shelf. Fortunately, the project, at that point, wasn't lost so it 
wasn't a total bust. I exported what I had done to DV stream and 
imported into 2.1.2 and finished the project. That most recent iMovie 
3 debacle had me upgrade to FCP Express.

No delays there while editing, but then again it is non-destructive 
and setting in/out points etc. Obviously, that is quicker. However, 
you would think the software overhead is steeper than in iMovie 3.

I dunno.

Rod

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Rod Duncan

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