IMovie Unbearably Slow
For the past few weeks I've noticed iMovie has been really slow. I keep having to force quit it.
It's using up 100% of my CPU.
Importing/Exporting seems normal though. It's just that whenever I press buttons like 'All Projects' or 'All Events' is give me the spinning beach ball of death and I have to restart iMovie. I've not been able to edit any video because any minor adjustment causes it to not respond. Oddly enough it's not using too much RAM though, only about half GB at most.
Specs:
8GB of RAM
Intel Core i7
Snow introduces three types of QuickTime.
1) The new QT X player is used as a replacement -- sort of -- to the old QT Player.
2) To support FCP and iMovie there is a QT Framework -- which may also support QT X.
3) There is a version of the previous QT Player you can install.
It appears that while FCP was checked out to work under Snow, the same was not done with iMovie 09.
All folks can do is wait for Apple to release a fix to Snow and/or iMovie 09.
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Macbook Air 2014 unbearable slow
Ever since I updated to Yosemite back in October, my macbook air has been so god **** slow. I can't get **** done on it, and my fans are overheating all the time. When I start IntelliJ, the CPU overclocks itself to 300%, same goes for photoshop. I can't even get anything done on my laptop anymore, and using an exernal screen is almost not worth it because of all the lag on the graphics and overall performance. It feels like I'm using this laptop back in 2008 with 2003 hardware and ADSL internet.
Problem description:
Macbook Air is generally slow, the animations are laggy, safari is unbearable slow and I can’t have Photoshop and safari on at the same time for example without suffering so much lag, and the fan starting to go on.
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Hello,
I purchased this iMac in early 2012, and it has recently become unbearably slow. Creating new folders, loading new tabs in Chrome, just doing basic work on the computer...it all takes frustratingly long! I don't do any heavy graphics processing, just some light gaming, word processing, excel. I have rebooted within the last few days and don't really want to purchase more RAM unless it's absolutely necessary. Just looking for advice on what options I have!
Problem description:
My computer runs too slow and I don’t know why.
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Email review creates workflows file size that makes Acrobat 9 unbearably slow.
I have been using the email review features in Acrobat pro version 9.3.1. All was going fine until, apparently, my workflows file got to around 1.5mb. If I understand correctly this is the file that Review Tracker uses to track PDF emailed for review.
The problem is Acrobat becomes unbearably slow to open and operate.
I narrowed down the reason by opening Acrobat with no plugins loaded and it operated fine. Then by enabling and disabling various plugins I found that when any plug-in having something to do with the commenting and tracking process was enabled acrobat again became unbearably slow. Through searching on this forum I found the workflows file that is created for tracking email reviews. I discovered with all plug-ins enabled and with the workflow file removed acrobat operated fine when I put the file back it again opens and operates unbearably slow.
So I know how to make Acrobat operate correctly by removing the Workflows file. Acrobat will create a new one if I start another review. The big problem is I have lost all my tracking on previous reviews.
I was wondering if anyone else might have had a similar problem when the Workflows file became larger than 1.5mb or so?
Does anyone know of a way I can keep my previous email reviews and still have acrobat operate correctly?
I also wonder if this will happen again?
Thank you for your time and knowledge.
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2.99GHZ, 8.00 GB of RAMFlattening should be expected to make files bigger, much bigger in the worst case. It is rarely a way to reduce size, though sometimes it will be - it all depends on what is in the file.
An example where it could reduce size is where a series of images are overlayed transparently. This would end up being a single one. There may be cases where lots of layers get consolidated into something simpler, but if the layers were vector and the result is raster it won't.
So, flattening might be a useful tool, but it's best to try it and test the result.
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In the last week my mid 2009 17" has gotten unbearably slow. It took 50 minutes to boot up earlier today and I don't know what is causing it. I have upgraded to 8gbs of ram and I have 37 gbs of HD space free(which I know is a little low but it still shouldn't run that slow. I've ran it on 8 gbs for a whole before and it was fine) Could my Hd be dieing???
I can't even open up finder without getting the colorful busy cursor.
If any one has an idea what it would be I would greatly Appricate it!
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and I have 37 gbs of HD space free
37GB's of free space on a 500GB drive is not sufficient. Rule of thumb. Make sure there's a minimum of 15% free disk space.
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Is anyone else finding wifi on iPhone 4 to be unbearably slow? I'm stuck waiting for my sim to activate, so it's the only connection to me, but with my 3GS side-by-side, the speeds I'm getting on wifi on iPhone 4 are twice as slow or more as 3G speeds on the 3GS. Could I have a faulty unit?
Actually mine wifi seems better. When I used to go outside at work with my 3gs, it'd drop the connection to the office wireless and then I'd have to sign in again once I got back inside. Now it's held the connection after being out there (in the same area) twice this morning.
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Hello everyone,
I've searched all over but couldn't find many topics about this, and especially not solutions.
My problem is that Glade (the GTK visual GUI builder) is unbearably slow. Whenever I click anything, it takes several seconds to respond.
Does anyone know of a solution? What information could I post to help?
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‘glade’ package version: 3.10.2-1
‘gtk3’ package version: 3.2.2-2
QT Designer works flawlessly.
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Hello,
Recently, I have noticed that k9copy was unbearably slow compared to what it's normally like. Nearly unresponsive the whole time. I was wondering if anybody knows a workaround to it, or if it has to do with some KDE libraries (btw, I'm running Gnome). What used to take it ~20 minutes to backup a DVD is literally taking hours, and it's not even close to being done. I haven't had a problem for the ~6 months that I've been using it until now. It also likes to spit out DCOPServer errors and crash eventually, and whilst I Googled it, came up with no useful answers.
If anybody knows why it's acting up, or if they have any suggestions, your help is greatly appreciated.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Gnome 2.22.2
k9copy 1.2.3-1 (from AUR) and from version that used to be in the repo.
and the basic requirements for k9copy to run (also had KDE fully installed to see if it would work, but since uninstalled due to program clutter from KDE)
Thank you in advance.
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Hello,
Recently, I have noticed that k9copy was unbearably slow compared to what it's normally like. Nearly unresponsive the whole time. I was wondering if anybody knows a workaround to it, or if it has to do with some KDE libraries (btw, I'm running Gnome). What used to take it ~20 minutes to backup a DVD is literally taking hours, and it's not even close to being done. I haven't had a problem for the ~6 months that I've been using it until now. It also likes to spit out DCOPServer errors and crash eventually, and whilst I Googled it, came up with no useful answers.
If anybody knows why it's acting up, or if they have any suggestions, your help is greatly appreciated.
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
Gnome 2.22.2
k9copy 1.2.3-1 (from AUR) and from version that used to be in the repo.
and the basic requirements for k9copy to run (also had KDE fully installed to see if it would work, but since uninstalled due to program clutter from KDE)
Thank you in advance.
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Unbearably Slow WiFi (Yosemite)
Fellow Apple users,
I am writing this on my iPhone 6, connected to WiFi, while listening to some music via iTunes Match on my Apple TV, also connected to WiFi. Once Yosemite was finally finished installing on my MBP, I decided to give it a spin. It looks great, The only downside is that my Wi-Fi connection is unbearably slow. I've reset the router and restarted the computer to know avail. As I mentioned before, I am enjoying swift speeds on both my iPhone and my AppleTV, yet it takes upwards of a minute (sometimes several minutes) to load popular webpages like NYTimes.com or pitchfork.com. Sending messages also take several seconds, when it should be instantaneous. Haven't even attempted a FaceTime video, for it was surely fail.
Is anyone else experiencing this? What should I do? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.My 2014 MacBook Air runs wireless flat out at 300Mbps all day long using a 5Ghz wireless n connection from my 4th gen Apple Airport Extreme Base Station. I don't have one here to test, but the iPhone 6 specs include 5Ghz 802.11n and ac. If your iPhone 6 is sipping on 2.4Ghz wireless g or n, it may be subject to considerable wireless competition in dense apartment, or neighborhood Wi-Fi saturation.
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Flash runs unbearably slow on my Powerbook, help!
Heya,
So I'm running a 12" Powerbook with a 1.33 Ghz G4, 1.25 GB RAM, and an NVidia GeForce FX Go5200 64MB RAM... Flash runs unbearably slow on my machine and it just happened all of the sudden. Although this issue came up the first time about two years ago I just bore the burden of it. But being a web developer it's just ridiculous. Now this only happens with videos, and no it's not related to the buffer, I've read that there an issue with Flash rendering techniques that caused it to slow down dramatically at like Flash 8 or something. I desperately need help resolving this and I'm wondering if anyone can help?? Thanks!Hello,
How much available disk space is there?
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon on your Desktop, then click: Get Info. In the Get Info window, click the discovery triangle so it's facing down. You will see; Capacity and Available Make sure you have 10% available disk space, 15% is better. Your Mac needs free disk space in order to render video. Could that be the issue?
Wouldn't hurt to check the boot disk for errors:
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My iMac boots up unbearably slow.
My iMac has become unbearably slow recently.
It takes over 10 minutes for the computer to boot up and for the dock to appear.
It also takes forever to open a program. But, from my observations, the computer starts to behave normally afree several hours of usage. It was not like this previously.
I have done some Googling and have tried resetting the SMC and PRAM, but it is still the same.
I have over 900GB free in my startup disk, so a lack of storage is not the problem.
Please help me.Before you do ANYTHING backup the computer and check the backup. Next run Apple's Hardware Test in Extended Mode 2-3 times back to back, your HD may be failing. The reason to run in multiple times is AHT does not always find errors on the first or second pass, however when it does they are correct. If errors appear then take it to the nearest Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider.
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Searching for an answer why the Store is unbearably slow to Search, Load or even Respond, and/or even go back to the last page ... I found no answers. Like most who posted on this topic I'm on a broad band connection with enough Memory and plenty fast for everything else including live streaming, but the Store ... is absolutely pushing the limits of patience. The number of items I would have purchased, but gave up trying is probably north of at least $100.
Does anyone have a *definitive answer*, instead of speculation? It's not me, or my set up because everywhere else I navigate to works fine. It's the Store that's driving me nuts.
Answers, anyone?
(and before you do answer, please know that accessing at various times of the day has no effect, even switching locations and trying two other higher value Mac systems are just as ridiculously slow, even being in other cities on borrowed latest gen laptops is of no use. It's not me, it's not my set up, it's not my DNS, it's not time-of-day, it's not Store Is Busy, it's not location relevant, not platform relevant ... it's Apple .. so, got an answer?)I did the same thing (switching to Amazon) because the whole iTunes experiences is so utterly useless and maddening. Apple lightened up a little on the DRM for which I commend them responding to sensible market pressure but iTunes is a Franken-beast of an app that forces my quad core 4 gigs of RAM machine to it's knees just to turn the dam thing on. Furthermore, when I want to load a new app or song or picture to my ipod touch it's nearly impossible. Takes forever to recognize the ipod and the methodology of having to erase everything on my ipod to add one more thing is just ridiculous. RIDICULOUS. First app that I find that is usable with the Touch and functions like everyone knows it should and iTunes gets the axe. It's like dealing with big government.
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Why imovie too slow download on youtube ?
why imovie too slow send download to youtube
Bumping this topic again as it's still sort of bugging me, but the problem has been isolated to a few certain sites. On some i get the maximum speed and on others i get snailspeed. One of the slow ones unfortunately is basically anything that has to do with Apple....So all Quicktime movie trailers, iTunes stuff, movies etc are slow, except podcasts that are German. I'm downloading the 30 day trial of iWork and i'm getting whopping 19,2KB/s, when i should be getting about 1300KB/s. You can just imagine the frustration:/
I'm just wondering am i alone on this or is anybody else excperienceing similar? And as usual, on windows i'm getting full speed all the time, anywhere, grrrr....!
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IMovie very slow -- how do you stop it showing all clips?
hi. i'm using iMovie 11, Mountain Lion, and a brand new, latest model, retina macbook (one month old), and i'm trying to figure out why my iMovie is so slow.
i originally imported all of my clips and photos into iPhoto, with no problem, and iMovie is displaying all the available clips in the event library correctly. But there's a few hundred different clips, and it's showing every single one... making it incredibly slow to open and do anything.
I can't seem to find a way to adjust the event library so it just shows the event headings (all of the clips are sorted into days, and iPhoto shows them exactly like that -- one icon for each day. i can then click onto each day to see the clips).
I have already tried using "optimize video" from the File menu, and that hasn't made much of a difference.
is it okay uploading all the clips into iPhoto, and just letting iMovie take them from there? or should i move the clips into a different folder?
any help would be greatly appreciated, as iMovie is practically unusable at the speed it's crawling.Yup... in the end I had to delete all of the iPhoto stuff, photos and videos, and re-import just the photos on their own. Then i re-imported all the videos into iMovie through the iMovie dropbox. That seperated all the dates out into their own event, rather than just having one big huge event. It's super speedy now, so problem solved.
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Imovie 09, slow, laggy performance, frequent hangs. Any reasons?
The Short:
iMovie 09 is slow and lags but my computer exceeds system requirments.
The Long:
Playing anything in full screen view lags. Many animations (as in ones performed by the computer) such as progress bars, and skimming just jerk along. Progress bars are not smooth and many of the titles etc appear jumpy inside imovie. Also, quite often, selecting a menu item results in a 5 second hang, with a spinning beach ball. This is annoying as everything worked quite fine in iMovie 08. My computer far exceeds system requirements (2.0GHZ Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB RAM, 100GB+ free hard drive space, one of those new 9400m graphics cards) yet things are so slow. Anybody have any fixes or reasons why, thanks!
PS, Latest iMovie build 8.0.4I don't know all the ins and outs of the "Late '08" aluminium MacBook (..my Beloved has one, but she's taken it to work). So I can't remember what options it has under System Preferences>Energy Saver.
But I'd look there and see if you can switch between normal and High processor performance .or simply plug the the laptop into the mains instead of running it on battery power.
You should be able to specify a High processor speed (..you can on most other Mac laptops, I think..) and that should help, if it's not already running at its highest speed.
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"..titles, maps, or themes.." have to be read into memory off the Mac's hard disc, and it sounds as if either (a) you've got a lot of other programs or documents open, clogging up memory, or (b) you just have insufficient memory for smooth running of editing, coping with HD material, and reading extra material off the hard disc and into memory.
I have 4 GB of RAM, and your laptop can take a max of 6GB (..according to MacTracker (click on that blue link), even though Apple say a max of 4GB).
- Ah, no; she hasn't taken it to work: I've just checked its Sys Prefs>Energy Saver: you should un-tick the box "Put hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" ..that'll keep everything running nice and fast -
So; keep the hard disc spinning, turn off everything else except iMovie, and add more RAM.
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