Red eye zoom locks up computer

Just about every time I use the red eye removal tool in iphoto 09 the zoom feature seems to overwhelm and lock up my computer. Does anyone else suffer this problem, and/or has something been done to improve this in iphoto 11?

Thanks Scott.
I tried directly from Premiere and had the same result (see #4 & #5 above). I'd try the XML, but there's too much additional information and things like AE comps that I don't think would translate.
I have one other thing that I may try. I was forced to copy a different project onto the the internal SSD becaue our RAID drives are currently waiting on a firmware update to connect to the New Mac (Thundebolt issues). There was a lot of RED footage that needed to be worked with natively, and no other drives were fast enough. But that means that my drive is now 90% full.
I have another day on that project, and then I'll move the footage back to an external drive and clear up the internal one. I'm wondering if Premiere didn't have enough of a buffer on the internal drive and locked up when the drive got full (even though technically there was enough space). I'll report back when this is done.
Still open to any other theories out there.
Thanks.

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greenturtle49 wrote:
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