Effects and sharing questions.

First off, is there a way to make a clip play slower or faster than normal? I want to make some clips look like the event was taking forever so we had to speed things up and clips with events that need to be played in slow motion.
Also, what is the best file type to share your videos as while keeping file size small but quality remaining pretty good?
Thanks.

Hi Trey:
There is a fast/slow option in iMovie 5.
As far as the best way to share-what are you tring to do? Burn a movie? Send via email?
Also, a bit more about your set up (like mine at the bottom ) would be helpful. Use 'My Settings" at the right.
Sue

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    Interestingly, I read of other users having the same problem but Karl Petersen also mentionned that he didn't have the problem ...
    So, what's wrong ? If the problem would be consistent, it would be easy to have Apple on their toes to fix it, but if not ...
    So I ran a small experiment. I took the same iMovie project and copied it to my different disks and volumes (at least the ones where I had enough space) and tested 3 types of effects:
    -1- the non-Quartz Composer 'fast/slow/reverse' effect, which caused me trouble already in iMovie '05;
    -2- the Quartz Composer 'sepia tone' effect, which I was using without problem in the previous version;
    -3- the non-Quartz Composer 'aged film' effect, which I was using without problem in the previous version;
    My disk and volume configuration is the following:
    -> First internal 500GB Serial ATA Disk split into 3 partitions:
    a) 30GB System & Applications Drive (Start-up Disk);
    b) 20GB Pictures Drive;
    c) 415.6GB Partition as Slice 1 of my Apple RAID array;
    -> Second internal 500GB Serial ATA Disk split into 4 partitions:
    d) 15GB Virtual PC System & Applications Drive;
    e) 15GB MAC & PC Documents Drive;
    f) 20GB Musics Drive;
    g) 415.6GB Partition as Slice 2 of my Apple RAID array;
    -> Internal 831.3GB Apple RAID Array - striped RAID set made of 2 slices (volumes c and g above);
    -> External 120GB FireWire Disk in one volume.
    All volumes are formated using Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format.
    The result is consistent and points towards an incompatibility of iMovie with either very large size volume or RAID array. Indeed, all tested effects preview fine on all tested volumes, however, they can be applied seemlessly on all tested volumes apart for my large size RAID array.
    When the project is on the RAID array, hitting the apply button results in the following:
    For the non-Quartz Composer 'fast/slow/reverse' effect and the Quartz Composer 'sepia tone' effect, rendering starts but then stops a fraction of a second later (as if it was unable to write the rendered file to disk). Resulting image in the video viewer is shifted diagonally to leave a black corner on the bottom-left.
    For the non-Quartz Composer 'aged film' effect, rendering starts and proceeds but the resulting image in the video viewer is again shifted diagonally to leave a black corner on the bottom-left. Note that resizing the iMovie window corrects this viewer issue.
    Conclusion:
    Is iMovie designed to support large sire RAID disk arrays ?
    Could anybody test a non-RAID array large size (say 500GB or better 1000GB) volume to check if it is size or RAID dependent ?
    When can we expect a fix ?
    Regards,
    Alex

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