Am I expecting too much?

Hi,
I'm a back-again user of iMovie. The last version I used was back in 2003. It worked okay, but had its issues. I learned of the non-destructive editing available in the current versions of iMovie and came rushing back.
My question is about the performance of the software. I note an annoying lag with skimming and when watching the video in the preview pane. The skimming is certainly not fluid like it is in the demo videos Apple is showing and when previewing my project, when switching between clips, the preview hiccups and I lose about 2-4 seconds of video (the sounds chugs along fine). Additionally, any transitions I put in barely show up at all, and the video freezes for the duration of the transition, plus a few ticks. Everything exports properly when I render a final video, but the preview problems make editing a bit painful.
The stuttering during skimming is most irritating, especially when trying to select a clip by dragging. I've upgraded my memory (now 4GB), tried an account that has almost nothing loaded (loggged off all other accounts), checked for persmission problems, even tried moving the projects to my external RAID over a FW 800. Nothing is really helping.
I am running a MB Pro 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo. I have 36 GB of free space on my internal (system) HDD. Is this just the way the software is? Am I expecting too much from an inexpensive video editor? Any suggestions on what do to?
Thanks for all your help.
Kevin

Hi
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows:*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Hard disk is untidy: Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple Disc Util tool)
• Garageband-fix. Start it and Close it. Re-try
• Delete iMovie pref file - or rather start a new user/account - log into this and re-try
iMovie pref file resides:
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences and is named: com.apple.iMovie.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this file out to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08)
• Program miss-match: iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match: iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Program miss-match: iMovie’08 v. 7.0.1, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (might work under Leopard)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
From LKN 1935: (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
I also turn off "FileVault" and try to get SpotLight to do as little as possibly
during editing.
• So all other programs that can run in background eg Internet access and so on
• Keeping as few external hard disks running.
• The external one ONLY FireWire - NO USB/USB2
Yours Bengt W

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