[MacDV] Movie wont play

[Kim]

I have about 5Gb on the startup disk free and 17Gb on the disk with  
the project. The project is about 74minutes. When I tried to export  
as full quality DV it said it would take about 533 minutes. I thought  
that was excessive for the export. This project has been sitting  
around on my HD for several months and I am trying to save it to tape  
so I can remove it. I also just a couple of days ago imported another  
project that ended up being about 60min long. That one played just  
fine. I have done what I have wanted to with that one and deleted it  
from the HD. I have also tried just duplicating the project folder in  
the finder. That version had the same problems. I am wondering if my  
best bet is to just export in 10min fragments then reimport it stich  
it back together then export as on file again. I know this will not  
fit all on one tape, I was going to put the extra on a second tape. I  
just tried opening the project in iMovie 3 and it did not like the  
Gee Three transitions. After skipping them I tried playing the movie  
and had the same problem.

Eric
On Mar 11, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Mike Rehbein wrote:

> If you have the free drive space available, first try exporting to  
> a DV file.
>
> Import that DV file into a new iMovie project.
> Export this back to tape.
>
> This seems to reduce the amount of work iMovie has to accomplish  
> during the export.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2007, at 4:14 PM, 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?
>>
>> ric
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