I searched my gmail trash extensively to see what I had missed here.
Thinking I had lost a thread. But none found.
People was commenting their experiences with the iMovie suite. So I threw
mine!
Your subject line mentions a " G5 1.8GHz tower " but the post mentions two
other machines ? ? ?
Yep.
You mention nothing about RAM or project settings nor about where you
placed
the files used as resource. All of this and more effects the speed and
reliability of an edit.
I have very little experience with iMovie but consider any version of FCP
to
be superior.
iMovie alone may account for your clip trouble.
That`s what I though! The machine was a 15in MacBook Pro with a 2,5GHz Core
2 Duo and 2Gb DDR3 RAM. I downloaded everything in the HDD, a 5400rpm 250Gb
unit which at the tine was almost empty.
But are you sure you did not accidently unlink the audio and video tracks?
I can only assume that is what you mean when you say the clip was " out of
synch ".
Try realigning them and relink them. Or simply reload the source or
redefine
the clip if it is part of a bigger clip.
You could also search the history if available and spot the event where
the
condition was triggered. Just to try to prevent it happening again. Do you
save versions?
I downloaded the clips from the video camera (a Sony AVCHD camerad with a
120Gb HD) into the HDD, loaded them with iMovie and tested them. All
reproduced OK. Them I proceded to edit them and paste the complete clip. In
some parts I turned off the original audio and included a new soundtrack
from my iTunes library. The raw project worked flawlessy. Problem was
exporting it to any video format. It took about an hour to process and I had
the same problem with any format I tried: around min 15 the sound became out
of sync with the image, garbling about four minutes of the clip. I tried to
rearrange it, moving the problematic clip around, loading it again from the
video camera.... to no avail.
I suspected it was a problem with that clip.... until I mounted perfectly
under Final Cut Pro.
Gorka
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