IMovie & iSight - can't record longer than 15 minutes?

Hi there,
I'm just curious to see if anyone can help me with the problems I'm having using iMovie and iSight. Basically, I'm trying to record a series of 2-hour lectures at my uni and am using the iSight as a firewire camera to record from into iMovie. However, every 15-20 minutes, iMovie stops recording and shows a blue screen with the message 'No Camera Attached'. I then have to start recording again, and wait another 15 minutes before the same thing occurs. This is very annoying! I have over 60 gigs of free HD space, so that shouldn't be an issue - hence, can anyone advise me what the problem might be?
BTW - I did do a search on this topic, but the only thread or relevance I could find...
Walt on line, "Making hour-long iMovie HD videos with iSight", 02:25pm Oct 20, 2005 CDT
...wasn't much help and itself pointed to a thread that has been deleted.
Is it simply a case that long movies can't be recorded in iMovie whatever the input (not just the iSight)? If so, I'd be grateful for any advice as it might save me the money spent purchasing a cheap videocam. Also, I'm aware that I can record for a seemingly unlimited time in Quicktime Pro, but the quality is not as good as with iMovie which I'd obviously prefer.
My set-up: PowerBook 15" 1.67ghz (rev.c), 80gb, 2gb RAM, Tiger 10.4.3, iMovie 5.0.2, iSight (rev.b)
Many thanks for any assistance with this!
R.

We are having the same problem at my office. I have 5 iSights/5 computers all have been recording short interviews 15 minutes or less and now two of them have decided to stop one just freezes the other gets the blue screen.
I have deleted preferences, repaired permissions doesn't seem to work. Camara works fine on another computer. So it is something to do with iMovie or a preference I am not finding??
Thank you,
Angie
Hi there,
I'm just curious to see if anyone can help me with
the problems I'm having using iMovie and iSight.
Basically, I'm trying to record a series of 2-hour
lectures at my uni and am using the iSight as a
firewire camera to record from into iMovie. However,
every 15-20 minutes, iMovie stops recording and shows
a blue screen with the message 'No Camera Attached'.
I then have to start recording again, and wait
another 15 minutes before the same thing occurs. This
is very annoying! I have over 60 gigs of free HD
space, so that shouldn't be an issue - hence, can
anyone advise me what the problem might be?
BTW - I did do a search on this topic, but the only
thread or relevance I could find...
Walt on line,
"Making hour-long iMovie HD videos with iSight",
02:25pm Oct 20, 2005 CDT
...wasn't much help and itself pointed to a thread
that has been deleted.
Is it simply a case that long movies can't be
recorded in iMovie whatever the input (not just the
iSight)? If so, I'd be grateful for any advice as it
might save me the money spent purchasing a cheap
videocam. Also, I'm aware that I can record for a
seemingly unlimited time in Quicktime Pro, but the
quality is not as good as with iMovie which I'd
obviously prefer.
My set-up: PowerBook 15" 1.67ghz (rev.c), 80gb, 2gb
RAM, Tiger 10.4.3, iMovie 5.0.2, iSight (rev.b)
Many thanks for any assistance with this!
R.

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