[MacDV] Movie wont play

[CM McDonald]

How much free disk space do you have? If you are getting low (less  
than a 4-500 MB) and your imported files are heavily fragmented it  
might produce the effect you are seeing. Any chance you could copy  
the whole project (how big is it anyway?) on to an external FW drive  
and try to export it from there? If not then clearing a bit of disk  
space and restarting might help.

A long shot - you don't have another version of iMovie available to  
open and try it with that? You might have bother with some effects  
and transitions but sometimes even an earlier version can open and  
export it.

Colin McDonald


On 11 Mar 2007, at 21:14, Kim wrote:

> I am running iMovie 4.0.1 with OS10.4.8. I have a movie that I am  
> trying to export back to tape. I know the camera connection is  
> working. When I try to export or even play the movie within iMovie  
> payback is jerky. If I select less than about 20min worth of video  
> it plays back fine. As I select more and more video the playback  
> keeps degrading. This does not matter where in the movie I select  
> the clips. I have deleted the preferences run Macjanitor and  
> repaired permissions to no avail. Any suggestions?