Editing a Voice Over Track

Hi:
Simple task. How do you do it? I have a VO track that has too many silent spaces. I want to be able to edit out the silent spaces so the VO is more fluid. How do edit out the silent, and join one piece of voice to the next pick up o the voice?
Any answer greatly appreciated.

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Since 2008 is now 3 years ago, have you changed your software, computer, or storage devices since you originally did your project?
mvh2 wrote:
I am redoing a 2008 project. I get no audio for either music or voice over when playing timeline. When I mute the voice over, then I get audio for the music.
Is the voice over track one continuous clip, or is it a bunch of shorter clips that are positioned on the track?
I followed advice to eject external disk that contained the voice over file,
Who or what gave you this advice?
since it said that somehow the voice over was not synched or something like that.
Who or what is "it"? When reporting warning dialogs from FCE, the more accurate you can be with reporting exactly what the warning dialog says - the faster you can be advised of a solution to your problem.
I rebooted because it said that by rebooting the problem might be solved.
Who or what is "it"?
I have video out set to canvas playback as was suggested in this forum.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are saying. Are you speaking about output controlled by the View menu or a setting in the Audio/Video settings? Is this audio problem associated with +outputting the video+ to an external device or is the problem apparent when using the audio monitoring on the Mac?
The disk my voice over is on is not the same as the disk the other aspects of the movie are on.
OK.
When I play the voice over segments on the disk where they are stored, I hear them just fine in real player.
Are they Real Player documents? Or did you mean Quicktime player?
So what should I do to be able to hear them in FCE?
If you look at your browser, are there clips that have red bars slashed through them? If so, control click on the clip and from the drop down menu choose Reconnect Media. If the clip is showing up on the timeline with a Red Media Offline thumbnail you can also do this by control-clicking on the offline clip on the timeline.
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