Thanks Shay Your advice prompted me to do some necessary updating (like system from 9.0 to 9.1 and iMovie to 2.0.3). And there were some good pointers on the apple site you mentioned.
All fixed now Cheers Mike >> Any iMovie 2.01 experts out there? I've just spent some time editing some >> digital movie into a 35-minute epic. Tried exporting to tape three times; >> first time, after 20 minutes the sound started to stutter so I stopped and >> reduced all the sound levels throughout the movie (that had been the fix for >> this problem in iMovie 1); second time, the same problem happened after >> about 8 minutes. Stopped and tried again, this time the same problem >> happened from the beginning. >> >> Am I overlooking something obvious? > > What machine and OS version are you running it on? > > Try Apple's iMovie support page > > <http://www.info.apple.com/usen/imovie/> > > Audio syncing can be affected by a number of things, including what > version of FireWire software you've got installed, QuickTime, > firmware updates, etc. > > Good luck, > Shay
