No sound in imovie

I have video clips from a digital camera that I'm trying to put into a movie in imovie. When it opens in quicktime it has sound and runs fine but when I import it into imovie it runs but with no sound. Do I have to export it as a different file? Any ideas? thanks

I am using a video clips off of my sony digital camera. They play just fine on iphoto, but once I try to upload them into iMovie there is no sound. I've downloaded Streamclip, but I am not sure what to do from there. Can anyone give me instructions on what I am supposed to do after opening Streamclip and finding the specific clip I am wanting to edit? I'm confused as to what format I need, etc. I'm just trying to make picture & video DVD's on iDVD for my family members who don't get to see the kids very often. HELP!!

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i've made several screen recordings and wanted to edit them with the newest version of iMovie. The video clips are all having sound while playing them with QuickTimePlayer and VLC Media Player, but as I imported them with iMovie, the sound in the video was lost. Can you help me?
I'm looking forward to your suggestions.
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Hey there. You might have been bitten by the
installer permissions problem. Open Disk Utility and
repair your permissions. There is also a QuickTime
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Finally, try forcing prebinding to run. Open a
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sudo update_prebinding -root / -force
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depend upon modules modified in the update don't "get
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I've tried repairing permissions, I've now downloaded and installed QuickTime 7.1.2 and have tried forcing prebinding all to no avail!
There is still no sound in iMovie but iTunes etc. work ok.
If there's no solution forthcoming I'll be forced to reinstall Tiger to enable me to go back to QuickTime 7.0.4

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Well I have a digital camera that records movies with sound, but when I try to import them into iMovie they end up with no sound. The help manual says that MPEGs wont work with sound in iMovie. So I was wondering, is there anyway to convert my MPEG movies into somthing iMovie compatible for sound like a .mov or DV. I've tried many products but they all seem to convert the video and leave the sound out just like iMovie does? Please help me.

Hi Scott:
Welcome to discussions!
iMovie does not work with muxed MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 clips
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42996
But Dan shows you how..
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6030.shtml
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Hello everyone:
I am trying to import a movie from my Sony DSC W100 camera.
The movie downloads to iMovie great, but I can't get any sound. I've checked the various volume controls on the camera, computer, and iMovie and everything seems to be where it should be. (And when I play the movie on my camera, there is sound.) But not so much as a peep of sound on iMovie.
I am using the USB connection - not a firewire connection (which I don't have for this camera).
My computer is an iMac with OS 10.4.9. I'm using iMovie 3.0.3.
Any guidance or suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Welcome to the forums.
Looking quicking at some posted specs, your camera records in MPEG VX format (a form of mpeg1 or mpeg2?), which means that iMovie is converting that video format (MPEG) into a form it understands (DV Stream). If you open one of the iMovie clips using Quicktime, use the Movie Properties command to see if it has an audio track.
If there's no audio track, probably the video was muxed (audio and video mixed together). Typical recommendation is to use MPEG Streamclip to do the conversion from MPEG to DV Stream, but often you'll also need (to buy) Apple's MPEG plugin for Quicktime.
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Hi, im a newbie, so I have lots of questions with sound in imovie.
I have a digital camrea which does the mpeg movie thing.
so when I import the movie into imovie I see the video but I hear no sound.
I know this was covered in some topics, but I being new to this I really didnt understand.
Im hoping that someone here and point me in the right direction.
Thank you.

Hi PK - welcome to the forum!
Increasingly, people with digital still cameras want to import their short movie clips created with that camera. BUT the catch is that these movies are NOT in .dv format. They are MPEGs, and if they are MPEG1 or MPEG2 then they must be converted to DV before they will import into iMovie with the audio able to play.
This conversion usually can be done with a free app. called MPEG StreamClip, but may also need another piece of software called the Apple MPEG2 Playback Component (which costs about $20)..
A search in this forum for those, will give you several threads on the issue!
Look here, for example, for more about the method required:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
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installer permissions problem. Open Disk Utility and
repair your permissions. There is also a QuickTime
7.1.2 installer available.
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There is still no sound in iMovie but iTunes etc. work ok.
If there's no solution forthcoming I'll be forced to reinstall Tiger to enable me to go back to QuickTime 7.0.4

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Not exactly sure what the issue is here on why it failed to burn the audio as well but did you look thru the iDVD help menu first?
Here's the info I found and I hope it's helpful:
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QuickTime movies smaller than the standard DVD size of 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL) are scaled to fit the DVD window, which may decrease the image quality.
For best results, in the QuickTime export settings of your video-editing application, choose NTSC-DV with a frame rate of 29.97 or PAL-DV with a frame rate of 25. Choose No Compression for audio and set the sample rate to 48 kHz.
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