iMovie exporting to VHS

[Phil A. Lefebvre]

>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:27:13 -0500
>From: <dave.vose at verizon.net>
>     
>     Can anyone help me with importing?  I have a 9600/700 Sonnett G-4
>upgrade with atlas 10k2 10k rpm drives. The firewire card is also a Sonnett.
>When I import from my Sony DVD camera the motion gets choppy and stops
>almost immediately.  The audio continues for about 5 more seconds before it
>stops.  It does this in imovie 2 and fcp both.

Does the Mac OS even support Sony DVD cameras? I'm impressed you got that far.

>I get the alert that the disk is responding slowly or
>something has interrupted blah blah.

Are your drives defragmented? Try that first. Also, make sure all 
background processes are turned off; e.g. fax software, AppleTalk, 
etc.

Now, are you using a SCSI PCI card with that FW card? They are both 
probably fighting to be the bus master. Try putting the FW card in 
the first slot (closest to the CPU) and put the SCSI card in the 4th 
slot. If you already have, see if your SCSI card has controller 
software to slow it down, say to SCSI-2 speed (10 MB/s). That is what 
I need to slow my SCSI card down to in my 8500. If not, put the SCSI 
drives on the internal SCSI-2 bus. Either way is fast enough to 
capture DV, and will leave plenty of bandwidth for the finicky FW 
card.

Hope this helps.
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Phil Lefebvre
Chicago, IL