Question about Preferences

When I am looking at my preference files, they move up and down like somebody is rapidly adding and deleting files from that column. Very odd. Was looking for a plist in particular and was going crazy trying to read that! Could not stay fixed on a line of text for more than a second. Any ideas? Quick

Is your Finder window in list view and are you sorting by Date Modified? Do you mean that clicking on an item in the list, say, the 20th item for example, results in that item suddenly springing up to the top of the list? If so, how long have you had the window open?
It sounds like what might be happening is that the display of the information about a file in the Finder is not not updating dynamically. While the Finder does dynamically show the addition or deletion of files, probably for performance reasons, it won't check to see if a file has been modified until it "needs to", which is when you select the item. If the modification date of a file has changed since the Finder first looked at it (when you originally opened the folder), it will update the information and then update the way it's displaying the files accordingly (by resorting by date).
If you have a list view window open for an hour or so, many files will probably have been modified, yet the information about them won't update until you've selected the item.
A couple of workarounds for this would be to hold down the up or down arrow key to quickly scan through and select each file. (Doing a Select All in and of itself doesn't cause the Finder to update information about all the items in the selection). Another option is to use Rainer's Nudge Contextual Menu to convince the Finder to update its display. For example, you could do a quick Select All, then control click on the selected files, choose "Nudge # items", and the display will be updated for all of the items.
Hope this helps....
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    3. Put the duplicate clips/footage into a folder labeled with the name of that footage (like "Fun At the Dentist" or "Jimmy Learns How to Yodel").
    4. Drag the folder with the footage/clips into my external hard drive into a pre-existing folder titled "Backups/duplicates of all of my raw footage/clips." This big granddaddy folder will house all of the child folders of different movies.
    5 Then, open up iMovie '11 and import the raw footage/clips from my Desktop rather than from my camcorder.
    6. Then I want to make a duplicate of my finished movie and put it in my external hard drive in a "Finished Movies" folder.
    I know that the original raw unedited footage will always be in iMovies '11 but I want the original to also exist immediately accessible in my external hard drive.
    QUESTION:
    Is this viable? Is it wise? (I know it goes an extra unnecessary step, but aside from that.)
    *Do you have any precautionary advice?* Should I do something in my iMovies '11 preferences? What?
    In earlier years with iMovie '04 or '06 (cannot recall) I made many novice errors and ended up losing audio to my finished movie. I also lost footage.
    This time around with iMovie '11 I don't to make such novice, ignorant errors.
    Thanks so much for any comments to this question.
    -L

    Yes I'm sure it will work great for you.
    The iFrame format is something Apple has come up with. The reason for its existence is unknown to me so I can only speculate. But it seems to me that Apple "invented" this format in order to have devices such as Ipod/Ipad/Iphone/Ixxx create clips that are editable on consumer hardware such as already mentioned devices but also standard Mac computers, without the need for format conversion.
    iMovie converts most input formats during import, which takes a lot of time, and this need for conversion often comes as a surprise to most people new to home video editing.
    iFrame has a resolution of 960x540 which is long way from the common standards of 1920x1080 and 1280x720. If your end target is YouTube however, this may not be too bad though. However if you intend to go with YouTube HD, you may find iFrame footage to look wrong since they are effectively upscaled to a higher resolution.
    Technically iFrame uses the H.264 algorithm, a smaller frame size (960x540) and a rather low compression scheme. This will result in large files, but the plus side is that the files are ready for editing without the need for any conversion and iMovie will natively edit the files.

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