Audio Blips in transitions, Part VIII ... continuing

Question

Driving me crazy, practically ALL of my transitions have the sound click or blip at the beginning and end of a transition. I've got music on the second track- so all I want is silence - everying set to zero, nevertheless... So, I've deleted the transition, extracted the audio from both sides, added a new transition (between two clips with zero audio... and Viola'!! Sound blips are there again. (and I tried deleting the audio clips... this combo is not working. Here's the apple advice:
(new input WELCOME...thanks)
You hear a pop or gap during a title or transition in iMovie
After applying a title or transition, you may sometimes hear a pop or brief period of silence between the transition and the next clip.
This can happen when using iMovie versions 3, 4, and 5.
If you experience this, try extracting the audio from your video clip to a separate track before applying the title or transition. Follow these steps:
Select the affected clip.
To undo the title or transition you have added: From the Edit menu select Undo, or from the Advanced menu select Restore Clip.
Select the video clip in the timeline.
From the Advanced menu, select Extract audio. The audio for the selected clip will be moved to its own audio track in the timeline.
Add your transition or effect.
This document will be updated as more information becomes available.

Answer 1

I have noticed a lot of users are having problems with the audio noise that sometimes arises when you insert transitions. The Apple workaround is to extract the necessary audio and then uncheck the video sound box in the video/audio timeline viewer as this is where the static is caused.
However, this tends to be annoying if you want to either edit or perhaps add further transitions that cut through video where you have already extracted the audio.
I think another option for iMovie HD 5.02 is a workaround that I had used constantly back in iMovie 3.03. That is to add a title transition (with nothing in it) that floats over the transition where the sound glitch occurs!
For example
1. In iMovie HD 5.02, cut the clip before the sound glitch using command-T.
2. Add a title effect - I tend to use a subtitle as it is usually what I'm working with, but other effects (like centred) work just as well. CLEAR the contents of the title boxes. Make it long enough to cover the audio problems and apply...
3. You will either get a magnificant solution to your problem (which is especially good as it is an undoable feature by pressing backspace after the clip is highlighted) OR you will get one more sound glitch at the end of the title effect. BUT IF YOU REPEAT THIS PROCESS by adding (and you might as well make the effect as long as possible) title effects throughout the whole project, the amazing thing is that when these effects run together - You get no noise!!!!
Ok, you might get noise if you were unfortunate enough to finish the title effect right on a transition and in this case you obviously need to ensure that you don't do this by varying the length of the transition.
IN SHORT....
1. Ignore the problem until you have finished your project.
2. (Worst case) Add long blank title effects starting at the beginning and continue adding them until you reach the end.
An added advantage is that this beats the endless audio extraction that some of you will otherwise have to do to "fix" this annoying problem.
Anyway I hope this works as well for you as it has done so for me.