If you have made lots of edits it helps to save the iMovie file, duplicate it, and work on the dupe. In my experience, this gets rid of the excess trims and puts your clips in order on your drive. Not that FCE is not a wonderful thing, especially if you can get it at $99. Carter (who edits in After Effects because he likes doing things the hard way) Tomassi On Jul 12, 2004, pamadams wrote: > I'm using iMovie 4.0.1 and my movie is 1:06:23. I am having a lot of > spinning beach balls and it's driving me crazy!