Whenever i import a clip it lags real bad in 1080p

whenever i import a clip to imovie 1080p it lags real bad and im really having a hard time, my camera is a JVC and on the box it says compatible with imovie pleas help!

rylandfrombrooklyn wrote:
That may well be true, but it's still a Quad-core i7 with 16GB RAM, running a RED ROCKET card over thunderbolt. Sooooo. It's a bit better than you may think. But, yes, it may be due to the standard Intel HD 3000 graphics card. Still, I can do dual display editing in FCP with full 1920x1080 Prores with no problem at all. So, I think it's something else. Thanks though.
There is no quad core i7 mac mini. You can get a BTO dual core i7 that comes with a AMD Radeon HD 6630M graphics card. The HD 3000 graphics are only in the i5.

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3. Which applications would you personally prefer using for importing video clips to and why?
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I got an iMac with 2.33GHz Core Duo.
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If I understand your original post correctly you are not "doing 8 min movies". You're trying to convert someone else's 8 minute movie (in a stupid AVI container) into DV Stream.
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Since you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear you are really just wasting your time with the conversion.
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Hi jphil and Tom
I have exactly the same problem but the answer you (Tom) provided did not help in my case. Trying to "Import ->From Camera" and pointing to the AVCHD folder yields the error message: "(Folder) contains unsupported files or has invalid directory structure."
Folder structure is
AVCHD
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AVF_INFO
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DCIM
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My question is: Is that not a "camera archive" of the type you talked about in the thread? Is it on principle not possible to import the files in that format/directory structure? If not, since the shots were not taken by myself, what should I ask the guy who shot the movies to give me to be able to work with them in FC?
I work with a brand new Final Cut Pro X 10.0.4 (still very clumsy with it) on an iMac 11,3 with MacOS 10.6.8.
I downloaded the latest version of codec updates from the Apple support site but no difference.
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