[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3

[Gerhard Kuhn]

Did your 30 minute movie run faster with iMovie 2?  It sounds like it 
would give your hard drive a real work out.  When a movie like this is 
exported to Quick Time it will play smoother because all the elements 
are in one file rather than scattered around your hard drive. i.e. if 
the two sound tracks are mp3 files the computer is actually playing 
those separately at the same time as it is playing the movies files.  
When playing a edited movie each cut is actually a in or out point for 
your drive to start or stop playing then you add the pressure of two 
more audio files to play this may result in too much work for your 5400 
rpm drive to handle in real time.  Try exporting this as a uncompressed 
Quick Time file, I bet it will play smoother.

Just my thought

Gerhard
On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 07:31  AM, Mark Glick wrote:

> Gerhard,
> I have a TiPB550MHz, 256ram and the simple movie that are less than 5 
> minutes with less than 20 cuts run great.  I have one 30min movie with 
> about 200 cuts, lots of titles and transitions as well as 3 
> soundtracks some with embedded tracks.  This long movie takes forever 
> to load, to save, and to trim a cut.  I'm also getting a platinum 
> frame instead of the first frame of the clip for the thumbnails.
>
> Pam,
> I hope somebody answers you soon.  Maybe we need more ram?  I'm 
> running 10.1.5 with quicktime 6.1.  I don't want to go to Jaguar yet.
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 08:58  PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>
>> I don't find it to be slower except when inserting still photos but 
>> the quality of the photos is much improved.  The rendering of 
>> transitions seems to take similar length of time as before.  I have 
>> only played with short clips but I like the new interface and don't 
>> find it to be slow enough frustrate me.  Are you using a older slow 
>> machine?
>>
>> Gerhard
>> On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 11:51  PM, Pwadams at aol.com wrote:
>>
>>> Holy Moly, I just tried iMovie3 for the first time and I am stunned 
>>> by it's slow response.  I can't work like this!  Is there cache 
>>> somewhere that i need to empty?  Oh please let it be that simple.
>>> Pam
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