Jumpy playback in iMovie since i started importing HD videos from my 4s iphone

I am getting poor jumpy playback with my 4s iphone vides in iMovie. Is this because I have too many projests going or too many clips? I have a macbook pro with 4 gigs ram and 95 gigs left on my HD.

What might be happening is you might need to Optimize the Video to Full Size. Use the File Menu > Optimize > Full Size for each of the video clips in your iPhoto Videos folder inside of the iMovie Events Library. That should trigger iMovie to recognize the original size/resolution of the video clips and then enable the HD size output in the iMovie Share Menu.

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