Imovie 11 Voiceover queery

Hi, i made a project in imovie11 and voiced over a theme. i later added to the project and when the scenes moved along the voiceover went awol! A small yellow exclamation mark has appeared and no sound can be heard. Can anyone help

What kind of camera made this clip?
Can you open one of the clips in QuickTime Player? If so, click WINDOW/INSPECTOR and tell us everything listed next to the word FORMAT:

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Interesting question. From the help info it seems that there is no way of handling left and right audio channels within iMovie 10.
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http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-capture-and-record-audio-on-your- mac--mac-52196
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I've been using iMovie '11 version 9.0.9, to make a school assignment. I started two days ago and it was allw orking perfectly fine, until today when some of the clips won't play. It started after I deleted a voiceover clip to replace it with a song from itunes. When I tried to add the song it showed that it was there but it played no sound. I managed to get that song working by dragging the song onto the whole project and then dragging and pinning it onto the parts I needed it.
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At this point I recorded another clip to add thinking my problem was fixed, but alas that voicover clip played no sound. I thought I might try running through the entire project again to see if that would help like the last time. But no, that was not the case, in fact even more sound clips have stopped working.
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I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I am still having issues with YouTube, but now when I bring in a clip to edit into iMovie, I cant do Voiceovers.
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I am using a Snowball mic, and I know that it is working.
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Thanks everyone for sharing this helpful info. I had been having the same issue with sounds… I’m glad I discovered I’m not the only one encountering this problem. I made a video with all the clips muted, & a background song playing, and when the song starts to fade out at the end, the original sound from the clips could be heard despite being muted, but only when playing back from the beginning, not in the middle somewhere. I was losing my patience and sanity trying to figure out how to fix it. Changing all the clips to standard preset speeds fixed the problem, but unfortunately I had to re-edit almost the whole video.. RRRAAAAAARRRGH!!!
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back in the day i used iMovie alot for porjects in school and it never disappointed me, its a pretty cool app but im not using it anymore as much.
It has some very cool features and actually everything that i would need for the video editing that im doing right now, but the problem is that when i export my movie files, i can only chose between 16:9 and 4:3. The footage that im editing though is recorded off my screen, so it has a totally different size. So when i export with one of these 2 options it would cut off parts at the edges and you wouldnt see my entire screen anymore. Also when i export with iMovie, the files get so big, the original files though are a lot smaller, when i then try to export with different settings, the quality gets too bad for my taste. So these are the problems that im facing right now, i hope you guys can help me how to export my files right..
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Hey man, thanks for your reply.
I think you got me wrong, im not adding screenshots and wondering why they arent full screen, my problem is the size of the file after its exported. i recorded my screen (movie file) and it has a resolution of 1280x800. However iMovie only exports as 16:9 or 4:3, the problem is that they have different ratios. Anyways i tried what you said but i didnt find a ken burns option for movie files.
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