I just purchased a dual 2.0 w/ 1gb of ram. I am starting to import movies into iMovieHD. I am doing a direct connect from a Canon ZR40 - firewire to my PM.
After importing an hour worth of video - if I do anything - click anywhere in iMovie after the import - it starts doing a Letterbox process - with a message of "this may take awhile". About an hour later - all the clips have been letterboxed and I can actually start doing something in iMovie.
I noticed there is a preference setting where I can turn this off - so I did so, and imported another movie - and again, before I could do anything else, it had to update the clips or something like that - with another "this may take awhile". About 40 min later, I could use iMovie.
My question is - is this what is supposed to happen? The video tutorials and information I have seen suggest that importing a video is just a couple clicks - and off you go - I know it's not that simple, but I figured that the process of importing from tape would be the most time consuming and that I wouldn't have this 60+ min wait between each import before I could do something....expecially with a dual proc machine.
I've never done much w/ video - so I just need to know what my expectations should be.
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