I've been using iMovie forever... since it first came out. I still have a copy of iMovie HD I use from time to time on an old G4 tower. I have Premiere at my disposal, but I've always liked the quick-simplicity of iMovie. I am up an running on the a Mac Studio, base MAX option. I have never had this laggy of an experience in iMovie before. It's so bad I have to assume user error.
At first I thought it was because I was editing off an external drive. Then I tried a project from some clips on the local drive (they are being dragged in from the Photos app.) It takes them a second of 15 to load... then when they do it's basically unusable for a period of time. I can't drag the volume down, it just wants to drag the whole clip. If I select the clip and hit "delete" the computer ignores the command the first 8-10 times you try it, then it will take.
It's really really bad... Right now I have a project going with about a dozen 2-3sec 4k clips. Each time I drag a clip in it gets worse and worse... but as soon as I exit out of the project and go back into it it's super fast.
I don't want to plunk down for Final Cut if it's going to be a similar experience... but I don't see how that is possible.
Thoughts?
At first I thought it was because I was editing off an external drive. Then I tried a project from some clips on the local drive (they are being dragged in from the Photos app.) It takes them a second of 15 to load... then when they do it's basically unusable for a period of time. I can't drag the volume down, it just wants to drag the whole clip. If I select the clip and hit "delete" the computer ignores the command the first 8-10 times you try it, then it will take.
It's really really bad... Right now I have a project going with about a dozen 2-3sec 4k clips. Each time I drag a clip in it gets worse and worse... but as soon as I exit out of the project and go back into it it's super fast.
I don't want to plunk down for Final Cut if it's going to be a similar experience... but I don't see how that is possible.
Thoughts?
