Audio dissapearing on iMovie 11 (9.04)

Some but not all of my voice overs are inaudible in an edit of a product demonstration I am putting together. I thought it might have something to do with me slowing down the video but some of the voiceovers are ok on slowed down vision.
The audio is definetly there as I can see the clips on the timeline.
Tried Consolidating, no luck. Any other ideas? I'm exasperated!

If you still have the clip on the phone (and in the future) I would suggest you import directly into iMovie from your phone.
If you have iMovie 11, connect your iPhone via the connector cable to your Mac. If iPhoto or iTunes starts, you can quit those.
Open iMovie.
Then click the Import from Camera icon, or click FILE/IMPORT.../FROM CAMERA.
If your only copy is in iPhoto, I am not sure why you are not seeing it, but I would suggest as a workaround that you in iPhoto, you right-click on the video clip and reveal in Finder. Then Copy and Paste it to your Desktop. Then, in iMovie, FILE/IMPORT MOVIE.

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