iMovie 10.1.14 incredibly slow and choppy
I routinely use iMovie to make 1-2 minute simple videos for my job, and in the last few weeks it has suddenly become unwieldy and super frustrating. Playback while editing is so slow and so choppy that I can't tell how the video looks until I export it and view it on YouTube or as a file. I am not doing anything in the videos that I haven't done before, nothing new and fancy. I have tried every tip I've found online, deleting preferences, restarting, freeing up tons of space on my hard drive, creating a new library--NOTHING WORKS. Please can someone give me some clues on what is going on. I am at a complete loss.
I'm working on a MacBook Pro 13-inch, early 2015--8GB memory--82 GB free of 250 GB flash storage.
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