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IMovie09 and the dreaded spinning ball

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Adam R


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Has anyone come across this issue ?
Using iMovie09 8.0.3 on a Mac OS X 10.5.7
When I create a iMovie project everything behaves well, until I insert a clip from one of my photos (these live on my HDD but not in the iPhoto library) - the .jpg is not big, about 150k. Then the spinning ball appears, it lasts for about 15-30 secs and then appears again. Eventually it stops and I can do some more editing but after a very short time (say 15secs) it appears again and the process repeats. What's going on ? Is this the automatic save feature kicking in ? If so, how do I stop it ? If I delete the image, this does not help, like the file has been corrupted ? I repeat that the problems start only after a .jpg image is inserted as a clip.
Looking forward to a solution and/or comments
Adam
 
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Have I found the cause of my own problem ?

My Mac has 4 x HDD and I usually keep all my movies and projects on HDD1 Just by accident, I created a new project on a HDD2. Everyting worked ok, until I moved the project files to HDD1 (I used the drag and drop functionality within the iMovie09 app). The project was copied to HDD1, and I deleted it (again using iMovie09 'move project to trash' function) from HDD2. It was then that the spinning ball problems appeared. Every few seconds the spinning ball would appear, last for maybe 5sec, I could then continue editing until the ball appeared again. Any comments, anyone?
 

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