Movie wont play

I have a movie in iMovie 4.0.1 that I have made a DVD of but I also want to save it on tape. I have tried to send it back to the camera but when the movie plays the time jumps and does not move smoothly. I only get a still picture. When I stop the movie I get the frame that the play head is now at. On the tape is just the still frame that was on the computer. I do not get any sound. I have another project on the same HD and it works fine. Any suggestions to fix it or is it toast? The movie is 1hr 14min. I have also tried to export it as DV and I get it will take 533 minutes.
Eric

Hello Eric,
the first thing I would do is free up some disk space. In the case of exporting to tape this might not be a great factor, but if you want to export via QT the disk space is insufficient, as the QT movie would be more than 15 GB (10% of free disk space is an absolute minimum requirement in order to just keep things working).
There is about 5Gb on the startup disk and about 17Gb on the disk I use for editing.
I don't know if your mac has more than one FW bus, but I'm guessing that you have the camera on the same bus as the ext. drive (or is the drive internal?) or even daisy-chained. This might prevent from exporting properly to camera. Is the second drive formatted as Mac OS X extended (HFS+)?
In any case, try freeing up space on both drives, then try exporting to camera. In case it doesn't work, move the project to the startup disk and try from there.
hope this helps
mish

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