Slow Editing Respone Time

Hi--read thru iMovie discussions and am still a bit stumped. Have edited a few movies on iMovie and it seems that the more transitions and material I have, the LONGER it takes for the program to respond. Is this normal? I seem to have quite a bit of RAM available, I've taken care of the permissions and it still operates painfully slow. Any suggestions?
Dino

Hi Dino:
If you have a great number of titles, transitions and effects added to the movie, it would only make sense that rendering would take longer than, say than a movie without. As long as it is working and not giving you an error, I suppose you'll just have to wait.
How fast is your processor?
Sue

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