Thanks for the idea. My system is OS X 10.4.11; 2 ghz Intel Core 2 Duo; 1 gb 667 mhz ddr2 sdram. However I tried this at a mac store on a new computer and the same thing happened, with the exception of going up to 40 min segments before being grainy. Is there something in the settings I’m missing? I have FCE 4.0.1 also. Thanks again, I’m going to try to edit and export the two 25 min. segments and see if that will work for now.
David