[kennedy]

How long should it take for iMovie to generate a 25 minute Medium quality QuickTime movie? (500MHz iMac)

When it first came up with an estimated time, it said 115 minutes.
That started bubbling larger... after 3 hours, it said 700 minutes.
I left it running all night... next morning it had made progress (was
about halfway through), but still said 680 minutes remaining.

Should it really take 16 hours?

Thanks.

[grovberg]

Originally posted by kennedy:
<STRONG>How long should it take for iMovie to generate a 25 minute Medium quality QuickTime movie? (500MHz iMac)

When it first came up with an estimated time, it said 115 minutes.
That started bubbling larger... after 3 hours, it said 700 minutes.
I left it running all night... next morning it had made progress (was
about halfway through), but still said 680 minutes remaining.

Should it really take 16 hours?

Thanks.</STRONG>

I found that despite the grand multi-tasking claims of OS X, the OS X version of iMovie does not multi task AT ALL! If you have any kind of energy saving or screen saver turned on, your progress in crunching a movie will screech to a halt and iMovie will display a much larger time left. This also happens if you move iMovie to the background (ie open some other app). I've had iMovie tell me that 40 minutes of video will take 2000+ minutes. Just turn off your screen saver et al. and things should move along just fine.
-Grover