Is my macBook Pro too weak to do video?

[Valiumdupeuple]

I do music/sound to video in Live with a similar machine (with only 4go ram actually), and there's no problem even with 30 mn movies.
And I did so for years with an (now) "old" core2duo.
I think you should go to the applestore and ask them to check your laptop, its behaviour is absolutley not normal.
Maybe your HD or the ram is faulty.

[lapieuvre]

you scare me valiumdupeuple (français par hasard?)... My HD boots the Mac in less than 20 seconds (Momentus XT), I'll try to find a RAM test for MAC

[Valiumdupeuple]

(Oui!)
Momentus XT are known to have this kind of issues. There's a lot of chance that you've just point the bad guy. I guess their "fabulous" technology is not really viable yet.
If you have a bootable HD clone on a external HD, try to boot the mac with it and test your live set.

[dysanfel]

I do music/sound to video in Live with a similar machine (with only 4go ram actually), and there's no problem even with 30 mn movies.
And I did so for years with an (now) "old" core2duo.
I think you should go to the applestore and ask them to check your laptop, its behaviour is absolutley not normal.
Maybe your HD or the ram is faulty.

+1
I have done an hour of video with my sets with my old 2006 MBP C2D w/ 3GB of RAM and it worked 100%.