[MacDV] Re: iMovie 3

[Robert Schoenburg]

Yes you are right. Rendering clips is very slow, and Apple in its "wisdom"
removed the frame count feature from rendering so you don't know it anything
is really happening.


> 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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