Fluency of Video in iMovie

gerard karelse · #1 December 21st, 2005, 02:30 PM

I finished an iMovie project. For one of the clips I used slow motion (with the effects panel). On the DVD I made from the iMovie project I noticed that the movements in this clip are not fluent (with shocks). How to improve this, I forgot something?

youre advice will be appreciated.

Gerard (NL)

**fryke** · #2 December 21st, 2005, 05:48 PM

Is it not simply the effect you get by stretching it too much? If your original data is 25 frames per second and you stretch it too much, you end up with merely 4 or 5 frames per second, which of course is very noticeable - and there's not much, technologically, iMovie can do about it...

gerard karelse · #3 December 27th, 2005, 09:04 AM

Thanks a lot for your input. May be you are right, but I didn't exagerate with slowing down, another clip was fine. This fluency problem is all over my project now! I cannot even stop my playhead and it takes ages before the video catches up with the sound when I want to play a clip(s) I discovered(?)that my project is too big (55 GB) for iMovie to handle (other smaller projects are doing fine, no matter where they are: on my internal HD or external HD.)
Is there a solution apart from buying a G5 iMac (my Powerbook G4 is not even 1 year old)?

Please inform me about my 'philosophy/diagnosis', thanks a lot.

Gerard (NL)

**fryke** · #4 December 27th, 2005, 10:41 AM

Hm. Maybe you could add a pause somewhere (fade to black, fade in) and split the project into two projects?

gerard karelse · #5 December 30th, 2005, 06:46 AM

Fryke, thanks for your "thinking", I will consider splitting up the project, but it is a lot of work. This weekend I will connect my ext.HD to the new iMac G5 from my brother to see how it works and if that is giving the same problems I will copy the project to his internal drive. After running those tests I can rule out hardware limitations can I?

Gerard.

gerard karelse · #6 January 1st, 2006, 06:11 AM

Fryke, I want to let you know the outcome of my testing. The same large iMovie project on exactly the same ext HD (USB) hooked up with the new iMac G5 from my brother played flawless!!! I guess my problem is solved for my PB G4 if I increase memory from 512 MB to 1,5Gb (the quantity my brother is using)?????

sirstaunch · #7 January 1st, 2006, 08:31 AM

Or you may wanna look at these preferences

gerard karelse · #8 January 3rd, 2006, 01:54 PM

Thanks, I did see this once but I don't apply this until now e.g. I will test this soon.

GK.

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