>Hi, >Not so long ago I scored a movie on Logic 5.5 pc with AVI video as a >tiny window in the top corner. As long as the movie clip was not bigger >than say 100 MB everything was fine. > >Now I'm on 7.1 on Imac G5 20" with 1,5 Gig inside scoring even a tiny >clip like a tv ad bumper is virtually impossible with a QT video window >open. > >What is going on? I have a firewire audio interface (Saffire) and the >usual keyboards, mouse etc on usb connected. Only one harddisk, the one >inside. Not too complicated. > >The point is that even with a very basic Logic arrangement the movie is >not smooth. The song pointer jumps and the QT movie skips entire >blocks. > >How can this be improved? All pointers extremely welcome! > >Herbert Boland Hi Herbert, Ideally, your movies should be on a separate drive, but there are other things to try.... Click-hold on the grey area at the bottom of the movie to show the menu. If you do not see the parameter area, click-hold on the movie itself to bring up the menu. Is <Contiguous Sync> checked? Un-check it - your movie should be smoother. I also uncheck <Follow tempo> - this may or may not help in your case. Regards - Colin