Okay,
A week ago, and for months before that, everything worked fine with iMovie. I only have a 20GB, iMac DV Edition though -- so I'd have to stop Importing after roughly 30 minutes of DV and Export, which takes 80+ minutes.
PROBLEM 1:
So I bought a ClubMac Firewire case for a 30GB IDE HD, and tried Importing directly to it, and sometimes after less than a minute -- and sometimes after as long as 10 minutes -- I'd get the spinning rainbow, and no response from iMovie, and I'm forced to Force Quit it.
PROBLEM 2:
I figured, Firewire or not, maybe it was just a slow IDE HD in the FW case, so I optioned to Import to the 20GB iMac HD for my 20-30 minute intervals, and drop the DV files onto the Firewire HD, and do my editting and exporting via it, after compiling large amounts of DV.
That worked fine. HOWEVER; after installing the latest OSX updates, but not necessarily right after installation of them, when I import onto my regular iMac HD (without even having the Firewire HD turned on, or even hooked up for that matter!), I get sound skips. Sometimes only one quick skip in a 5 minute peroid, and sometimes one skip every minute. The picture doesn't appear to get effected, just a real quick skip of sound, which really sucks since I've been trying to convert analog music videos to DV, and then Quicktime.
Any ideas?
~Dakota Goldsworth
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