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iMovie on iBook, need help!!!

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sursuciofla

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Okay, I frequently use a G5 Powermac for this stuff (iMovie/iDVD), but on my iBook when I try to import the DV footage the signal drops and is already sluggish to begin with. It only goes for about 4 seconds. I would just use the G5 and be done but since I use it at work and the iBook at home I would like to be able to do some stuff there too. Would there be any way to make this program work so I can import or do I just have to import on the G5 and then work from there? or am I just SOL on the import part all together?
 
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sursuciofla

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sursuciofla said:
Okay, I frequently use a G5 Powermac for this stuff (iMovie/iDVD), but on my iBook when I try to import the DV footage the signal drops and is already sluggish to begin with. It only goes for about 4 seconds. I would just use the G5 and be done but since I use it at work and the iBook at home I would like to be able to do some stuff there too. Would there be any way to make this program work so I can import or do I just have to import on the G5 and then work from there? or am I just SOL on the import part all together?
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Okay, I figured it out. This is what the help file said:

"My imported video is missing frames or stops importing

If you have FileVault turned on in Mac OS X version, you may experience difficulties importing digital video. To work around this, move your iMovie HD project to a location outside your home folder while you are working with iMovie HD. A good location is the Shared folder, located in the Users folder on your hard disk."

I turned off file vault and it works like a charm. I will probably turn FileVault back on eventually and just use Shared folder like it suggests.
 
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Ahh, good ol' FileVault, causer of so many problems. You know, FileVault is the only bit of Apple developed software that I have any real complaints about. It's always eating disk space, or causing things to crash. Nuts to it, the average user will never need it anyway.

By the way, thank you for posting your fix. That's how people in the future can gain from your experience. To many people don't do follow up posts like that IMO.

-Chris
 

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