[MacDV] Re: QT Settings for iDVD from FCP

[Mark Florida]

>    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.
>    it puts a clip up on the shelf and it plays back  but I cannot capture
>more than 20 seconds.  I get the alert that the disk is responding slowly or
>something has interrupted blah blah.  I need to have a project done for a
>movie class on the 22nd  HELP!  DaveV

Do you by chance have a PCI ATA/IDE interface card installed (even if it's not running your capture drives)?  If so, then that is the problem.  If not, then do you have your 10k drives installed on the "stock" internal SCSI chain, or connected to a faster SCSI card (at least UltraSCSI or UltraWide)?  If you have them on the internal SCSI, then that's the bottleneck.  There isn't enough info in your post to really say.  Maybe putting the FireWire card in one of the top 3 PCI slots?  I know there was a problem with PCI on these machines with G4 cards.  Or maybe you need to put the FireWire card in one of the bottom 3 slots?  Anybody know for sure?

I don't know if that helped or made it worse.  How about a complete system configuration description?

- Mark