[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3

[Thubten Kunga]

Not dog slow on my dog slow 500 MHz G4 nor 450 MHz G3 B&W. Must be your 
system setup or hardware something.

k

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 06:15  PM, Kevin Ledgister wrote:

> I downloaded iMovie 3 and like so many on Apple's discussion board - 
> it is dog slow!  It launches okay but then becomes unbearable after 
> that.
>
> I have a 19 minute video that worked fine on my 400 MHz iMac from an 
> external drive and now it won't play smoothly on my freshly 
> initialized and rebuilt internal primary drive.  It's choppy, takes 5 
> to 10 seconds just to start playing and iMovie 2 worked fine just 
> minutes before.
>
> I waited for so long for iMovie 3 and from a functional standpoint, it 
> has a lot of things I have wanted for a while but I'm going back to 
> iMovie 2 until Apple resolves this.  Since they don't seem to have 
> such problems with FCP or FCE like this, I'm assuming that it's a bug 
> or something that they will quickly fix.
>
> Let your voice be heard on Apple's discussion forum so we can get some 
> resolve to this.
>
> Kevin Ledigster
>
> On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:02 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:
>
>> Just finished installing iMovie 3 and I think Apple did a great job.  
>> I especially like the improved quality of still photos in iMovie.  I 
>> have to congratulate the developers and I am not sorry for spending 
>> $86.00 Canadian for iDVD 3 because I expect as much from this program 
>> as well. (looking forward to the chapter support)
>>
>> Congrats to all involved
>>
>>
>> Gerhard Kuhn
>> suspice at hay.net