Fwd: [MacDV] Re: iMovie 3 - Improve Performance

[Kevin Ledgister]

> If you are experience sluggish performance, you may find it helpful to 
> open up Terminal and run the Unix maintenance tasks.  It's KBase 
> article # 107388 but here is the summary below:
>
> 1. Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities).
> 2. Type: sudo sh /etc/daily
> Note: Typing "daily" runs tasks normally scheduled for a daily 
> interval. Type "monthly" or "weekly" in place of "daily" to runs tasks 
> scheduled for those intervals.
> 3. Press Return.
> 4. Enter your Admin password when prompted, then press Return.
> 5. Quit Terminal when the task is complete. Monthly tasks usually 
> require a longer time to run than weekly or daily.
>
>
> I was able to achieve smooth playback of a 19 minute movie with 2 
> audio tracks while dialed up online, with 2 Safari windows, Mail, and 
> ICQ running all on a iMac 400 DV with 320 MB RAM.
>
>
>
> On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 09:45 PM, James Asherman wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Kevin Ledgister wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, from the little bit that I was able to do before it became 
>>> unbearable, I did notice that transitions rendered much faster and 
>>> the ability to change the volume level of an audio track is great.
>>>
>>> So it does have some great features but there is obviously a bug 
>>> that is affecting quite a number of systems in terms of performance 
>>> so we'll have to wait and see what the fix is.
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>
>> How is this stuff running on Quicksilvers?
>> Jim
>>
>>
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