ISight recording gets choppy 5 min into capture

Hi! after having audio issues recording using Photo Booth, I thought I'd give using iMovie a shot.
I'm happy to see that iMovie reverses the image correctly so you can read anything you hold up!
I recorded 10 minutes of video. It gets really choppy halfway (~5 min) - the audio sounds fine throughout the 10 minutes.
I located the file in the Finder and opening it up in QuickTime produces the same choppiness.
I want to know if it is the specs of my iMac (see below) that is causing a buffer to fill up or something?
Does anyone have any tips on recording smooth video using iMovie 09 using my built-in iSight on my iMac?

Don't have an answer to this.
But, I did want to post that I have a similar problem.
I have several Windows machines...and a MacBook, 10.5.6, maxed-out with 4 gigs of RAM.
So, I thought today I'd play around with Photo Booth for the 1st time and see how a vid with a "green-screen" background effect would come out.
And it came out the lousiest I've ever had for any video I've ever made!
I used the built-in iSight camera and the playback was so choppy and so out of sync video-to-voice that it was worthless. Junk.
Looks like something a $12 machine would produce.
This is crazy. If I'm maxed-out on RAM, what's the issue and why does it look like its 1996 and I'm using dial-up?
This is very disappointing.
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