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 >> _______________________________________________ >> MacDV mailing list >> MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984