Import and playback slow

I have a imovie project stored on an external hard drive (only) because I don't have enough free space on my main drive. Yet playback and import is freezing - SBBOD!. I have been told that I need more virtual memory; does this mean RAM and can I install it myself?

It has to be *Mac OS Extended* formatted (UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - Doesn't work)
If not then You have to move any valubale files elsewhere and then formatte it as such.
Formatting always erase too.
Then it depends on what Mac You got Intel or Power-PC (G3, G4 or G5)
When formatting You have also to select
• Gui-something or
• the other alternative
depending on Mac CPU.
You should ask in proper forum related to Your specific Mac
Then When the external drive is properly formatted - You just use the Mac OS X
install disks and put a Mac OS on this one.
Then when done You can in System pref. select start disk - or - while starting up
keeping [alt-key] pressed and select from displayed alernatives.
Yours Bengt W

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I can not figure out why it takes SO long to import and export into iMovie.
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Then when I'm editing it's like everything moves static and it's just not smooth. Really annoying.
Then when I Finally am able to edit and I want to export it back into a quicktime a 5 minute project can sometimes take HOURS. There were times i left it to export overnight even and it was still going in the morn.
There has GOT to be something I'm doing wrong here. My projects turn out great once they are done but this time thing is a serious issue. Please can someone offer advice. I even bought an external and took movie files off my HD and off iMovie thinking that was the problem but still it seems to take really long. Are there settings or something i'm missing? I'm no tech guru so anyone who can help would...I would so appreciate it your patience and kindness.
Thanks so much!
Hil

A .mov file can contain .mp4 data or other form of compression. .mov is essentially a wrapper and doesn't in itself tell you what the type of actual compression being used might be. YOUR .mov files may well be H264 compressed video. You can convert these to any one of several other compressed formats and in doing so you can choose how much quality you wish to convert them to in most instances. You could take that original .mov file and convert it to ProRes 422HQ and get a huge uncompressed files or convert it to a smaller and more compressed form for viewing at a small size and higher compression. FCPX creates those uncompressed (less compressed) ProRes 422 files if you tell it to optimize your media. File size (literal pixels vs pixels ), amount of compression, data rate and type of compression all contribute to the eventual quality of the resulting file. I would strongly advise you to NOT dump the original files. In fact when you copy your data from your camera you should copy the ENTIRE folder and keep that as an archive. Larry Jordan has some good information on why that's important. If you downsample to a smaller form that uses less hard drive space an toss the originals you will NEVER be able to get back the full quality. It's like taking a RAW camera still shot and making a small jpg and then tossing the RAW footage. You can't get back data that you throw out. There is no free lunch. FCPx doesn't HAVE to copy from the external drive. You can control that in your preferences. I can promise you that if you toss the original footage in favor of saving some drive space, if that is good footage worth keeping, you will regret it later if you ever choose to reuse that footage and want the best possible image. Buy more hard drive space and get used to doing that cause it won't be the last time you have to buy more storage space.

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Hello everyone,
I just got an ADVC-55 AD video converter for my Mac quad 2.8. (I am running 10.5.4). When I try to import the video from the VCR via the firewire-connected converter, the video+sound as it is being imported is choppy. This remains choppy on playback once recorded, as well. The same results were for iMovie '08 and iMoveHD '06. In general, when importing movies into the computer, is using iMove '08 better than iMovieHD '06? (I know that iMovie is better for chapters and such for editing once in the computer).
I have tested the VCR on my TV and it is smooth with the same source tape and machine.
This converter is supposed to be plug and play and there are no drivers or software that comes with it. There are 6 dipswitches and these are all set to off.
Drive is a Seagate Barricuda 7200, with 300 gigs free...
Are there any setting I should change to fix the choppiness?
Any help is appreciated,
Thank you for you time.

Steve:
As good practice save the project as a disk image (File->Save as Disk Image menu option) instead of burning directly to disk. This allows you to play the disk image in DVD Player to verify that the encoding of the project was good. If the project plays OK in DVD Player you can then burn that disk image to disk with Disk Utility at the slowest speed available. If there is any problems with the disk playing it can then be narrowed down to the burn process. Also use the top grade media. Verbatim, Taiyo Yuden or Maxell -R are the most recommended brands in this forum.

Importing a movies gives choppy results both on import and playback...

Hello everyone,
I just got an ADVC-55 AD video converter for my Mac quad 2.8. (I am running 10.5.4). When I try to import the video from the VCR via the firewire-connected converter, the video+sound as it is being imported is choppy. This remains choppy on playback once recorded, as well. The same results were for iMovie '08 and iMoveHD '06. In general, when importing movies into the computer, is using iMove '08 better than iMovieHD '06? (I know that iMovie is better for chapters and such for editing once in the computer).
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This converter is supposed to be plug and play and there are no drivers or software that comes with it. There are 6 dipswitches and these are all set to off.
Drive is a Seagate Barricuda 7200, with 300 gigs free...
Are there any setting I should change to fix the choppiness?
Any help is appreciated,
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Hi
Some thoughts.
1. free space on Your internal (start-up) hard disk ? 25Gb or more ? 5Gb or less ?
2. Is Your Canopus ADVC-55 set right ?
My Canopus ADVC-300 has two sets of DIP-switches on it's bottom and this has to
be set right to work. See manual.
3. A VHS-tape can play "smoothly" to a TV but still have "drop-outs". When exporting
via a A/D converting box (eg Canopus ADVC-55) It will be much more sensitive to these.
Set in iMovie/Pref to not import as individual clips. Can help a bit.
If this is Your problem an import would yield in lots of small clips.
After change it should import larger blocks with smoother playback.
4. QT 7.5 seems to be problematic. Try to downgrade to version 7.4.5
QuickTime is the heart/engine in iMovie and FinalCut. If this has a problem
both programs starts to ill behave
5. Deleting iMovie pref file might help - easier is to start a new account and
log into this and have a re-try.
Yours Bengt W

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Welcome to the forum.
First, let's get a bit more information please. This article asks some useful questions, and the answers will help us to help you: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3220274#3220274
For crashing and hanging, this FAQ Entry might prove very useful: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/792580?tstart=0
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Hi. I previously submitted this question last year for Lightroom 4.1 (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1045374). I never did get any responses.
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Harm,
Sorry for not responing for a few days, but I runned the benchmark you'll send me. The main results (dee details attached file):
53,6, secs Total Benchmark Time
6,4, secs AVI Encoding Time
14,2, secs MPEG Elapsed Time
33, secs Rendering Time
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disk2: avarage transfer rate: 85MB/s, acces time 14ms, burst rate 157MB/s
disk3: avarage transfer rate: 73MB/s, acces time 13.9ms, burst rate 183MB/s
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Thanks inadvance,
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Ive recorded a test video with audio/music playback slowed down 65% what speed do I need to speed the video back up to to get it into "real" time?
If I'd slowed the audio playback down 50% I would make the video 100% faster.
If I'd slowed the audio playback down 100% I would make the video 200% faster.
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Sorry but its melting my brain today and I cant remember the calculation.
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Thanks for the advise on this. I will explain a little more what am have/am intending to do.
I have used Audacity to slow the song down (Effect>Change Tempo)
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Firstly what I really want to do is to be able to slow the AUDIO down as much as possible (But still within the restraints of only being able to adjust FCPX retiming within a whole 1 percentage in the final video edit), but have the AUDIO of the song as near to/under 12 minutes as possible.
I will then re-record the video again to this new slowed down audio.
Secondly I will speed up the video from 12 minutes to 4 minutes.
Thirdly I will layer the correct 100% Normal AUDIO on top.
The FINISHED video should then look like everyone is wizzing around at high speed but the guitar playing/lyrics look like they are being played/sung at the normal speed.
Whatever happens (due to the constraints of FCPX) I need the calculations to work so that FCPX is retimed exactly to a whole 1% for the final video to sync up correctly.
So what I need to know in a nut shell is:-
What calculation do I use to work out the percentage to slow a 4 minute song down to a 12 minute song?
What calculation do I use to work out the percentage of how much I need to then speed the 12 minute video up to turn it back into a 4 minute video?
My mind is melting

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