Choppy Video from External HD

[muflyer]

For the first time, I am storing and editing video on an External HD in iMovie HD. In the past, I have always stored and edited the video directly from my main HD. In playing back the video in iMovie, I notice it is choppy and the picture locks up. I have not previously had this issue. Is this a concern when editing video from an External HD. I am using a Firewire connection. If this is a known issue are there any workarounds such as transferring the video file to the Main HD? If I burn the video to a DVD will I still have the same concern? Thanks for any assistance.

[LethalWolfe]

How full is your external HDD and how many FW devices to you have hooked up? The rule of thumb is to *not* use the main HDD to store video, so you've got the right idea but for some reason it isn't working.


Lethal

[tracetritt]

another possibility could be the speed of the external drive.

[alex1]

It is probably that that the drive is about half full or may be an older drive. Another possibility is you haven't turned off your computer in a while and need to do a cold boot, (not restart) to clear the memory. I have a G-Raid that works great, but even that can get jittery if I have a bunch of programs on and sucking up memory when it's over half full when i'm editing 720p HDV.