IMovie 5 quit while importing from DV camcorder

It never happened until I upgraded to iMovie 5. I would import a DV movie clip from my SONY Cam. The movie runs smoothly while playing but it jitters as soon as I start importing the clips. The camera runs for a while and the 1st 10 secs. movie was captured and it starts jittering before it stop completely.
I am tempted to uninstall the 5 version. As I cannot reinstall the version 4 now. What is happening would someone please tell me what to do. I need this working as soon as possible. Thanks in advance.

Hi P.O.
Hard to say but cheque this list:
a) File-Vault is on - turn it off
b) don’t Daisy chain camcorder - external hard disk - Mac
c) Slow hard disk (fragmented: repair permissions, repair hard disk, use a faster hard disk)
d) Something is occupying the CPU/System, like other programs, Internet etc.
e) Bad RAM-chips
f) drop outs on the miniDV-tape - make a camera to camera copy on a tape which You have previous recorded with a time code (dummy recording).
g) FW-wire cable OK?
h) Break in the time-code on the miniDV tape (make a camera to camera copy on a tape which is prerecorded with nothing/anything so that the tape has a time-code from beginning to the end)
i) defective camera TRY IT ON ANOTHER MAC !
j) remove bookmarks in iMovie project
k) Do You have desktop pictures or screen-savers active? Try turning them off.
l) Updating - OS has to be a clean install - not an update eg from X.3.x to X.4.x (no good)
OS X.4.0-3 needs a clean install to work (I use X.3.9)
m) Updating QT and/or other updates (to 7 needs v6 to be cleaned out first)
QT v.7 needs a clean install to work (I use 6.5.2)
n)
Have you tried the crazy fix:
Open GarageBand, play a few notes, close it and reopen iMovie. The camera should import fine now.
Sue/SDillini
o) Trash: com.apple.iMovie.plist and com.apple.iMovie3.plist : files (Xinram)
I use OS X.3.9 , QT 6.5.2 and iMovie 5.0.2
Also You can run repair permissions - Apple Disk util tool.
Yours Bengt W

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