[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3

[Kevin Ledgister]

Apparently I'm not alone on this.  There are several discussion threads 
on Apple Discussions of people with very sluggish performance of iMovie 
3, include some with dual processor 867 MHz systems or brand new 
PowerBooks.

Hopefully it is a setting change or minor fix that will resolve the 
problem.  And it is 3.01 that I have.

iPhoto 2 seems to be running fine.




On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:18 PM, Thubten Kunga wrote:

> 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
>
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