choppy video in iMovie
I made a short movie in iMovie, and unfortunately after I had finished it (I thought), and transferred it back to videotape (digital 8 ), I found sections of it was very choppy. At the time I guess I just thought it was processor- or cpu-related, and the actual video file would be OK.
I know I need to go back and reimport the scenes to fix it, but my question is, what caused it? I don't think I had a load on my machine when I was working before. Maybe the transfer from the firewire drive? I seem to remember working off my internal 5400RPM drive earlier (when I didn't have any problems like this).
Here's my hardware:
Pismo PB 400 w/ 640M memory
7200RPM FW HD used for video storage/xfr
My PB has a 5400RPM internal, which I'm not using for this particular project.
10.2.6, iMovie is current.
Thanks
I know I need to go back and reimport the scenes to fix it, but my question is, what caused it? I don't think I had a load on my machine when I was working before. Maybe the transfer from the firewire drive? I seem to remember working off my internal 5400RPM drive earlier (when I didn't have any problems like this).
Here's my hardware:
Pismo PB 400 w/ 640M memory
7200RPM FW HD used for video storage/xfr
My PB has a 5400RPM internal, which I'm not using for this particular project.
10.2.6, iMovie is current.
Thanks
Comments
I'm not sure if this is caused by a limit in Firewire transfer speed or a limit in the processor.
I'm planning to upgrade to a 900MHz G3 (PowerPC 750FX) from Powerlogix early next year ... but by then they might also be offering the new 1.1GHz G3 (PowerPC 750GX) for the Pismo.
I have a 15" Albook coming this week, so it will at least be a different issue (though perhaps not a non-issue). The new powerbook has a 80G HD, so I should be able to make movies off the internal, and then xfr the finished product to the FW drive.
Of course, I found a couple more things to fix.