I am working on a memorial via imovie video for my dad that recently passed away. I have spent hours on this scanning 400 pictures, adding a video clip, and music it is turning out really well. I thought it was about done and I was going to fine tune the music as I have 4 tracks, the total video is 20 minutes. All of a sudden I started to notice that the time line was moving too fast over the pictures and not in sync then it would skip through a picture or two to get caught up but it isn't working in sync as it was any help would be appreciated. I would hate to redrop the pictures into another imovie and start over. I went though and deleted old movies and cleaned my hard drive to 23 GB available.
I have a OSX 10.5.8 thanks!
I assume you are using iLife 09 (iMovie 9)?
I have not personally seen this, but I have seen a host of other little "bugs" in iMovie that are odd, and sort of similar. What computer are you using?
I'm just going to give a few basics that may help:
1) Make sure you do not have any clips on "slow Motion" that are not specifically using the "snap to" settings iMovie wants you to use, like 25%, 50%, etc. Custom slow mo settings really add a lot of bugs to the project.
2) Shut down any other items not needed that may be running in the background.
3) Take a look at your total memory left - if you are close to maxed out, put something large on an external hard drive or something to give you a little headroom.
4) I have a feeling your playback is just getting hung up due to a (lack thereof) of computer processing power. If you "share" the project to a test file and view it, you are probably going to be fine. But do the above to make sure you don;t have any random bugs in there and enough processing power so that when you do "share" to your test file to view, it all goes smoothly.
Good luck, let us know how it goes.
