[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3

[Mark Glick]

All,
My long movie loads fast and runs clean on iMovie 2, which I went back 
to last night.  The movie is on its own partition on my WD 120gig 
firewire ehd with about 5 gigs to spare.  I'm looking forward to going 
back to imovie 3 I particularly like the slo/fast motion, titles and 
transitions look better too.  But the importing bugs, platinum frames 
for thumbnails and no scan in ff and rew, are too much of a drag.

Maybe it isn't my just adequate ram (256) because iMovie 2 is running 
the same movie and importing perfectly.

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 05:36  AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

> 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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