Audio low - clips captured with iSight

Hi there,
The video clips that I've captured of myself speaking into the built-in camera with iSight play back with very low volume audio.
I have clicked on "View-Show volume levels" and increased the volume to 150%, but still same problem.
After I exported for Web or for Email - made it into a .mov Quicktime clip -- and sent it to friends, they same the same thing -- LOW VOLUME.
Please someone help me out
Thank you!

Hi Jamila
You got one of three ways:
2. Extract Your sound and select this + Export as QuickTime as an audio file .aiff.
This file You can open in an audio editor like
- SoundEdit16™ (costs)
- Audacity (free)
- Garageband (included)
and increase as much You need
or
3. Extract the sound. Now You got an audio clip under Your video-clip in timeline.
Select this audio clip + goto Edit + Copy + Paste + Paste + Paste + Paste
Loud enough ???
Yes it is this simple.
Yours Bengt W

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