[MacDV] Movie wont play

[Mike Rehbein]

Yuck, problems are no fun....

Well, that is excessive. Hm....

Well, here is what I do when things look sour and I don't know why.

I have downloaded and installed a piece of software called Applejack.  
This software has been a great help for the occasional time I have  
unexplained stuff going on especially in iMovie...

So, I'd trying running through a few things like Disk Utilities and  
do the fix permissions.
Then Restart holding the Cmd S keys to get to Applejack and there I  
use the command (don't panic, this starts you in Single User Mode, a  
black screen)     applejack auto restart
This tells Applejack to do it's set of deeds and when finished,  
Applejack restarts, leaving you at the sign on screen and you know  
Applejack has completed it's work.

Then try iMovie again. The first time Applejack runs, you may find it  
takes a long time. That just means there was  a lot of work to do.

See if that helps with the export. Yes, I know the other movies work,  
but this may still help you with the errant one :)


http://sourceforge.net/projects/applejack

Mike



On Mar 11, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Kim wrote:

> 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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