iMovie is dog-slow in starting up -- especially after a system restart. To shave five or more seconds from the startup time, Control-click on iMovie's icon and choose Show Package Contents. In the new window, drill down to Contents -> Resources -> Sound Effects, and remove the two sound effects folders foudn there. Place them in a separate folder elsewhere and just drag-and-drop them into iMovie when you need them. You can also catalog them in iTunes and, once again, you have access to them via iMovie4. Now you can add more effects as you record or collect them.
[robg adds: I took one for the team and tested this one. It does seem to make a difference in startup time, though my machine is fast enough that iMovie4 isn't really slow in starting in 'normal' mode -- about five seconds. But with the folders removed, that dropped to maybe two or three seconds. Still, I'm not sure it's worth removing the folder, mainly because if Apple ever updates iMovie and includes new sound effects, I'm not positive of what might happen when you run the software updater.]
[robg adds: I took one for the team and tested this one. It does seem to make a difference in startup time, though my machine is fast enough that iMovie4 isn't really slow in starting in 'normal' mode -- about five seconds. But with the folders removed, that dropped to maybe two or three seconds. Still, I'm not sure it's worth removing the folder, mainly because if Apple ever updates iMovie and includes new sound effects, I'm not positive of what might happen when you run the software updater.]
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