Skipping on playback

I've imported about 3 minutes of video into iMovie HD and arranged the clips how I want them. There's no blank clips in between, but both audio and video are skipping on playback. I thought it was just in iMovie, but when I burned it to iDVD, it does the same thing when I playback on my DVD player. How do I smooth transitions from one clip to another? This was 3 minutes of continuous film exported from a Sony digital camcorder.

Cathy, it's not entirely clear from your note whether the playback problem occurs ONLY at the transitions or other places too. If only at the transitions, is it one particular kind of transition? Does the problem go away when you remove the transition?
• Can you export the iMovie project successfully to a Full Quality movie that plays as it should? If so, that may offer a solution. You could export the project to a Full Quality movie that you open and play in QuickTime Player. If it plays okay, then import that movie to a NEW iMovie project. It should continue to play fine. Then share the new project with iDVD.
• If the Full Quality export is okay, that may suggest that your iMac doesn't have the RAM it needs to work comfortably with this project. If your iMac has just 256 MB of RAM that may be the underlying problem. Although it may satisfy iMovie's official requirements it may not work well for all projects. You may want to consider adding more RAM. 256 MB is very, very small. Everything on your iMac will probably run better with more RAM.
• Have you added any iTunes songs to your iMovie project? Some songs can cause exactly the audio/video symptoms you describe. If you have added iTunes songs you may want to try replacing them with new copies you have burned to an Audio CD.
For that solution to work, it's crucial you first configure your iTunes preferences to burn the Audio CD correctly, as described here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2179683&#2179683
• Any iMovie project, regardless of length, can develop a stutter if it contains lots of audio clips. That problem is described here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2597033#2597033
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