Audio importing problem

Hi.
I'm using a DAC-100 analog-to-digital converter to record from a VHS tape and cannot get any audio in the iMovie 08 import window. I'm using RCA cables in and firewire out. Odd thing is after importing a sample chunk I can play it back and lo and behold the audio is there! Would be nicer to hear the audio so I know what I'm importing, but I cannot seem to find a way to hear it during import. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

You said "there is no audio on import..." so is that the last word on the subject as far as Apple is concerned, i.e. it's the way iMovie was designed, and it won't change?
It is the current word as far as iMovie '08 is concerned. Remember, only DV import even has the capability to monitor the audio and/or video during capture and even then there is a slight time difference between the pre-converted input and the post-converted arrival as digital on your computer. If monitoring is of such great importance to you, why not use iMovie HD to do the importing or a dedicated capture application like Vidi (free). Both have the ability monitor the A/V a it is imported/saved to your hard drive. Once saved to you hard drive it can be edited in any Apple or third-party editor, played immediately in the QT Player, or sent directly to iDVD for burning if no editing is required.
Do you foresee Apple fixing this?
There is always a possibility that Apple might relent here, but it is not probably that they will allow you to monitor DV capture but not HDV, AVCHD, or MPEG-2 since these other formats must process the audio and video streams of data separately. It is only because the DV audio and video data is "captured" in parallel on a "frame-by-frame" basis that it is possible to monitor the two simultaneously with nothing but a slight time delay between input and output. To do this in iMovie '08 means having to have a separate import routine for DV incorporating this capability. Unfortunately, most programmers try to eliminate redundant processes where possible for efficiency. Besides, you can always monitor the input side of things just as easily as the output -- i.e., run your VHS tape either through/in parallel with an AV amplifier/receiver to the DAC to the computer.

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