Moving iMovie's to Video Tape....

I'm compiling my son's football season and am video taping the game with a DV camera, editing them in iMovie and transferring them back to a DV Tape. I'm saving them on different tapes until the end of the season - then I can edit them all together and send them to his grandparents (two different States)... however, before and/or after I edit the iMovie game tape and I send it back to my Canon DV camera, at some point the images freeze... the camera is still recording and audio is still going, but the video has frozen itself. I have a GB of memory and am not running anything in the background... this is frustrating... anyone have suggestions? Unfortunately I didn't get my Powerbook when I bought it, with a superdrive. (who knew I'd be recording and editing video on it a few years later?? LOL)

send it back to my Canon DV camera
Canon cameras doesn't like any other Firewire devices. Disconnect scanners, DVD-burners, hard drives, hubs etc etc.
at some point the images freeze.
Is it always the same point? That can be a bad clip. Try putting it on the clip shelf (at right) and try again. If it works now you have a bad clip that you might want to try re-importing.

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