Sharing to VideoCamera...lots of dropped frames

Hi,
I am attempting to share an iMovie video creation with my Canon Elura 40MC connected via firewire. The camera is the only thing on the firewire bus.
However, when viewing the iMovie either on the desktop or after sharing with the camera I am getting a LOT of dropped frames and pauses. The video/audio will pause quite often and then start again. It's rather frustrating and I don't know how to fix this. Any ideas on why this is happening and how to solve it? I have shut down other applications (unless I am somehow missing something). I have 768MB of RAM and about 25GB free disk space. Any help or ideas would be much appreciated. Right now I feel like I have wasted all of my time because I have an iMovie that just doesn't "work".
Thanks,
-TigeMac

Hi Tiger
There are may ways to get in Your situation:
I would:
- Delete iMovie pref files (easiest way I think is to start a new account though
there will be more pref-files than just iMovies that will be re-done)
- May be there are a fragmentation problem. Then if You have an ext FW-disk
then move Your project folder to this and copy it back to Your int hd
OBSERVATION: Only if the ext. HD is Mac OS Extended formatted - if not
You will destroy Your project.
- Take a close (frame to frame) look on Your movie so that the drop-outs aren't
there already. Then You have to redo Your project from the very beginning and
find out why You got the dropouts in the first place.
- Can it be so that You used LP-mode when recording with Your Camera.
If so You got problems: I only been able to save a project once when done this.
I did go to iMovie pref and turn off the function that imports AS INDIVIDUAL CLIPS
so I got my movie as one clip (or several 9.xx min clips)
Then edited from this.
Yours Bengt W

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