IMovie slowness - appreciate yr opinion

I am a novice mac user
using Macbook 2G with 2G memory OSX 10.5.8
Using imovie 09, doing something very simple
importing "events" from sony HDD HD camera ( using regular not high definition)
and then publishing movies to media browser and then creating DVD in iDVD etc
I find that after I created a project with about 90 minutes of video footage, creating an iDVD is a very lengthy process. ( publishing on media browser is 4 hrs, plus creating the iDVD itself takes hours)
is this normal ? is it that I have very low spec hardware for this operation? or perhaps I am doing something wrong. ?

Yes that is normal.
There is a lot of encoding to do in both iMovie and iDVD.

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hi, i couldn't follow all this but
how much free space do you have
highlight your hard drive icon and command+i (get info)
how many GB are Available
next,
have you booted off the Install DVD and ran
Disk Utility> Repair Disk
do you have any results (errors) in red text
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have you created a New User account and tested
have you ran the latest Apple COMBO UPDATE for your operating system
have you ran all Apple and Adobe updates
have you used a utility like Cocktail OSX to clear your caches and run all your maintenance scripts
have you reset (zapped) the PRAM and rest the logic board (may be called a PMU reset on an iMac, not sure)
have you added any 3rd party software that may interfer with the OS-Finder
have you added any photoshop plugins
check (can you post a similar screenshot of your plugins):
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so i understand that in this version of imovie you're meant to double click a clip in order to bring up the "inspector" that can allow me to speed up/slow down clips etc.
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http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why/
http://www.jcsenterprises.com/Japamacs_Page/Blog/00E03B83-1ADA-406E-A940-396D39F 598EA.html
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Hi there,
I've got a strange problem and i could not find anything on the web.
I'm working with iMovie for over a year with no problems.
Recently I wanted to edit a (already capured) project.
If I press the start button, the movie starts running but not smoothly.
After a while (or when I use the slider) the movie goes into a slow motion and stops.
It's like pulling out the plug of a film machine.
The sound is playing on normal speed for about three seconds en then stops.
I've had this problem with OSX 10.3.9 and with the new 10.4.5 version.
The captured movies and projects are stored on a external firewire hard drive (Maxtor one touch 160Gb firewire/USB 2.0)
I've tried to operate this disc on the USB 2.0 port but the problem does not go away.
I also installed the firewire update driver from Maxtor but with no succes.
My system works perfectly with all other applications including Logic pro
There is enough memory installed and the system is "heavy" enough (dual 1.8 G5 with more than 1 Gb memory)
I hope someone knows a solution for this problem
Greetings,
Richard

Thanks for the quick replies on my question.
Well, My internal hard drive is only 80Gb!
That's why I bought a 160Gb External.
Until January iMovie worked fine with this configuration.
I don't have so much expierience with Apple, but with PC's it was often a conflict with other programs.
Can this be the problem with my Almighty Apple??
Perhaps it's because I've installed Adobe CS1?
(adobe can cause lots of problems and errors in a PC enviroment)
The transfer rate of the External hard drive isn't the cause because Logic pro runs perfectly good.
And with multitrack audio you absolutely need a high transfer rate.

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