Multitasking while importing movie

While importing a movie into iMovie, does it affect the quality of the imported video if I multitask during the import process such as browsing the web, looking at photos in iPhoto etc.?
What's your experience?
Thanks for your input!

Depends some on where you are importing from. If over USB that will be the bottle neck to your external drive and video source. Also is the video source tape based or solid state (memory card)? If it's tape you don't want to have the tape start and stop because the mac is busy doing something else. Burning is generally more time critical because the DVD writer can ruin the burn DVD if it runs out of data. So during burn operations I generally don't have anything else running. Quality generally isn't going to be affected importing, it just may go slower than it could if running full bore.
I did use iDVD 08 to copy tape to a DVD (one step), and while it was reading the tape (over firewire), I continued scanning pictures into iPhoto (over a USB HP AIO scanner/printer). When the iDVD process got to the point of starting the burn, I stopped other activity and let the burn have the whole system.

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