IMovie Audio Editing help?!!!!?

hi,
im trying to edit in iMove, but whenever i add music in the timeline (theres is no video yet) it appears as a little square, that expands as i add video to show waveforms, i want it, when i drop it in, to be a long bar with the waveforms so i can manipulate- just like it appears in final cut pro (i would use FCP but i am very bad with the audio editing in that and i enjoy iMovies simplicity) !! help please on how to do this!!!!

Add the audio clip AFTER video clip is in Timeline. I don't believe you can add an audio clip in an empty Timeline. I could be wrong, I've never tried it.

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I have seen multiple youtube videos where they are single view and have two to three separate audio tracks? I would like to know how this is possible as i need to edit a video with different audio? Im talking about editing audio like how imovie 07 in which you had two separate audio tracks that you can edit audio in.
Thanks for youre time

It is possible to have a large number of audio tracks in iMovie 11. Maybe 99 or close to it.
Here is a [good tutorial from iMovie 08 that explains how it works.|http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#audioclips]
With iMovie 11, you can still do all this, but you also have the Clip Trimmer view and the Audio Waveforms view.
As a hint, it is easier to work with multiple audio tracks when you drag them onto a clip, rather than dragging it into the background as background audio. In the video, they show this for sound effects, but you can do this for any audio clip.

IMovie- Audio Editing Problems

Basically here is the situation. When i click on a video in my project and then click adjust audio. I do not get the adjust audio pop-up but just the skimming line over my video with a red dot in the center of the skimming line. I have tried restarting iMovie and removing the video and then inserting it again. However time an time again iMovie will not let me adjust the audio on my video. I have got to the point of pulling my hair out over this issue. *PLEASE HELP!!*

The next thing I'd try is quitting iMovie.
Then move this file to your desktop
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Imovie audio editing

Is it possible to cut or delete the audio from a single clip, the audio on the footage imported from the video camera ex. wind, background noise, and or people talking?

Sound Soap ..Whoops! No, sorry: SoundSoap..!
HOWEVER: (..and take this from a purchaser and user, that's me..) It will quieten down constant unwanted noise, such as a hum, buzz, rumble, hiss, sizzle, fizz, grind, etc, but it can't necessarily identify changing or variable noises, such as laughter, occasional voices, general chatter or other talking.
Only things which have a specific frequency - such as a 50Hz or 60Hz mains hum, or an air-conditioning unit - can be easily isolated and removed. And the removal will also cut down the sound of anything else which includes that - or those - frequency/ies.
So you can't use it to cut out background chatter in a bar while someone else is speaking, or remove a background TV show from a recording, or remove the sound of traffic from a poor voice recording.
The result usually sounds - unless it's a single-frequency hum or hiss that's being removed - like the altered audio is coming down a drainpipe ..so it's an emergency rescue package which can work with a fixed-frequency unwanted noise, but can't delete unwanted background chatter, and although it can help a little with wind, probably something like Alka Seltzer works best of all..
Oh, and, er, 'Motion' is for motion, not sound, and Final Cut probably can't help any better, either, as the audio filters would need to be manually tweaked ..which you can do as an option in SoundSoap.
As mentioned before, trying to remove unwanted sound from within a recorded audio clip is like trying to unbake a cake ..you can pull out the raisins, but you can't remove the egg or flour..

Audio editing help!!!

What is the best way to make an audio track which has very loud sections and very quiet sections to become a similar volume?
is there a way to do this automatically and quickly with any program?
so that any high volume sections of a track becomes quieter and low volume becomes louder?

Probably you need a Limiter rather than a Compressor: a limiter places a maximum allowed level (often full peak but you can reduce the overall level afterwards); you then increase the level of the entire recording so that the quiet sections reach this maximum, then the louder sections will be held down to this maximum. You need a fast attack and a moderate decay time (the time it takes to bring the quiet bit after a loud bit up again).
A Compressor will reduce level differences on a sliding scale: a gap of 10 dB between sections might become a gap of 5 dB (2:1) and a gap of 5 would become 2.5dB - not the same effect.
Normalizing specifies the level of the loudest part of the recording and adjusts the entire recording to achieved that, without affecting the relative levels of loud and quiet sections.

Need audio editing help

Hiya -
I've tried using de-ess filters on an audio file, manipulating the frequency, and about 100 other things, and I can't seem to get the quality to improve. Any suggestions? Email me at [email protected] for a copy of the audio file.
Thanks,
Kimberly

I asked about the microphone because I've found that a lot of the audio quality issues come from that end, not necessarily from Captivate.
The easiest way to determine if the mic is causing the issue is to try another microphone and see if the sound quality improves.
I have about five different microphones. The best ones are USB. The worst ones are headset mics that are intended for internet chat. I find they very often are quite scratchy and have essing problems.
Are you able to get hold of a good USB mic from somewhere? I suggest either a Blue Snowball, Blue YETI, or Rode Podcaster. I've had the best results with those.

Trying to download a family dvd to iMovie to edit. I have video but no audio

I am trying to download a family dvd to iMovie to edit. The DVD was originally done professionally but I want to attempt to fix some errors. The format of the dvd is UDF (if that helps). The video downloaded, but I have no audio.
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Here is a way to do it that should work for you.
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I going to recommend again, downloading and installing some video helper applications.
1. http://perian.org/ (this will add a number of different file types to the ones QuickTime already plays)
2. http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac (will add more file types to what QuickTime can play)
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http://duc.avid.com/archive/index.php/t-277791.html
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I've been having problems with audio editing in iBooks Author.
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I'm not sure your problem is exactly like mine, but it pertains to placing the audio in a widget in ITA (itunes author).
The issue to look out for is we took our video and audio clips into our layouts to publish and apple validator rejects the audio clip saying the "audio is outside of the widget." and creates an error code. It seems to accept the video fine, but the AAC clip has been run through QT, or iTunes or Compressor and we still get the same error code. I' thinking there's a bug. So ours runs fine on the ipad, but won't validate. Like I said, maybe not your same issue, but the audio in a widget is a little buggy unless I'm overlooking something. Let us know how you work your problem out.

IMovie audio issues. Fine in timeline, but when rendering to iTunes or Media Browser, audio from certain portions of movie files are heard in places where it shouldn't be !

iMovie 11 audio issues. Fine in timeline, but when rendering to iTunes or Media Browser, audio from certain portions of movie files are heard in places where it shouldn't be !
I have created a project where I have a montage of photos and video clips edited together with music under. Some audio portions of the video files are being muted in some areas and those portions are being heard in another part of the project. This is not for all video clips only certain ones.
The project plays fine in the timeline, but when I render the project thru iTunes or Media Browser, this is when the project goes corrupt.
I tried detaching the Audio from the video clips and this somewhat worked, but the original problem still exists with certain audio still being heard where it's not supposed to be.

I have a fix - or rather, a workaround.
WARNING: It is lengthy, but still far better than starting a new project from scratch.
I had this same issue and none of my transitions/clips were at custom speeds, nor did I have anything else weird going on. Unfortunately there is nothing you can do within iMovie to fix this, at least there wasn't for me. iMovie is BY FAR the buggiest software I have ever used and if you haven't already spent hours slaving away on a project, you are so much better off using just about anything else to edit your video.
...But let's assume you have already spent many hours working on your project and you don't want to start all over. Well then, you have at least one option.
It's a pain in the neck, but it's infinitely better than restarting your project from scratch.
This will require:
A software called Soundflower (which is free) and some kind of audio editing software (I use Logic, but really any should work).
1.) You're going to need to export your video with the messed up audio. Typically if you're audio is messing up, you're video is at least usually working just fine (at least it always does for me).
2.) You're going to need to open that video in your audio software and import only the audio. If your software doesn't give you this option, then you're going to need to record the audio from your video using the audio software and Soundflower. You can find tutorials on how to do this, but it's honestly pretty straightforward once you start playing around with you Mac's audio I/O settings. Remember to have your computer's volume all the way up when doing this.
3.) Watch/listen to your video and make notes of where the audio errors occur. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND writing down times too, as they will be extremely helpful later.
4.) Now were going to rip some working audio from the iMovie project itself. Go back into your iMovie project and only play back audio while in the edit window for this step. Do NOT play your project back in full screen.
This part is key: if you try to play back your project from the beginning the audio will usually still mess up. So, what you're gonna have to do is go back on your edit window timeline right before these errors occur and play that specific clip back while recording this working audio with Soundflower and your audio software. Essentially we're only recording the parts of the audio where these errors occur, so try to do this in order if you can. Try to leave several seconds of audio in before the error - that way we can use it as reference when we construct our new audio track.
5.) Now in your audio software you should have your original error-filled audio track and the new clips that we just captured. This part can be painstaking if you're not familiar with audio editing softwares, but as you'll learn, it's really not that hard.
You're going to look at your original audio track and compare it to your new working audio clips. You should be able to notice where those new clips are supposed to go by looking at the identical (or close to identical) waveform shapes in your original audio track. The two should correspond with one another. If you don't understand what I mean right now, you will when you start playing around with the audio. This is why marking times is very important.
Take your new clips and split them up if you haven't already, that way you can drag them around and edit them separately from one another. Essentially your going to line these new clips up with original and then replace the original parts with new ones.
We need to get this as precise as possible, so start off by getting them as close as you can with your naked eye, and then use a zoom tool to zoom in as much as possible so that you can get them lined up PERFECTLY, or at least extremely close. In some softwares you can just drag these new clips on top of the old track, but most of the time you will need to actually cut out the old piece and replace it with the new one. In doing this, zoom in and make sure that you are NOT cutting out a bigger space than your new clip will fill - otherwise you will have small gaps in your audio.
VERY IMPORTANT: Also make sure that this new audio track starts at the EXACT SAME time as your original - otherwise your new audio will be out of sync.
I know this part can really suck if you're not used to audio editing, but at this point, there is little other choice.
6.) Once you are done with this, export your newly pieced together audio track.
7.) Now open iMovie and create a NEW project. Re-import the video that you exported earlier that has the messed up audio. This might take a while, so just be patient.
8.) Then right click the clip and select "Detach Audio". This will do just that - allowing you to edit the audio separately from the video. Now delete this audio.
9.) Now, import the new, perfect audio track that we just made and make sure that it starts at the start of the project. Make sure it's in sync and that everything works.
Now just export your new video with the working audio and you should be done. Since we have given iMovie the audio with no editing actually being done in iMovie, it does not have to generate its own audio now and you should have absolutely no errors now - unless there is some that you forgot to take out earlier.
YOU'RE FINALLY DONE!!!
I know this entire process *****, but if you're that far into your project, there is little else that you can do. Now you've learned your lesson:
DON'T USE IMOVIE EVER AGAIN.
I hope this helped!

Missing audio edits in YouTube

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My analysis: There must be multiple tracks in the .mov IMHO and Quicktime knows which ones to playback but only the original track is read by YouTube. This may be BS on my part....... I don't think I am doing anything wrong but believe there is a bug running around somewhere.......
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BTW, I got this idea for editing iMovie audio in Garageband and Garageband is all set up to do this, from David Pogue Missing Manual. Other then the YouTube problem, it works great. You have all these tracks to work with for sound effects, voice overs, music and panning with complete control.

FLATTEN FIXED IT!
When "SHARE" to Quicktime, you can use H.264 or Mpeg 4 but to FLATTEN the audio tracks, I used AAC and when uploaded to YT, it all was there!
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THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP!

IMovie '08 Editing Delay Issues

I truly hope someone out there can help me with this because the solution from the "genius" guys at the Apple Store was that I needed to do my project in Final Cut Pro. I am creating a movie in iMovie '08 using approximately 70 illustrated drawings (jpeg) and recorded about 80 lines using a snowball in iMovie. Each of the lines are separate sound files (7 year olds are good for about 1 line without mistakes) I am now in the process of timing the images to the voiceover and when I click on the voiceover clip to move it the hand moves but not the clip or skim line and then the beach ball comes up for a spin and then the clip moves but not with the hand. So basically its all a guess as to where the voiceover lands. Sometimes it overlaps another one or is not close enough. The delay basically makes it impossible to edit efficiently. The movie file itself is around 89MB. I will tear my hair out if I have to edit in this manner. Any suggestions out there? I have done this process successfully with a shorter 2 minute movie (see sample at YouTube, search for "Little 'O'opu Who Lost His Way") but this one is about 7 minutes. Mahalo!

I wish I had thought about recording in GarageBand as your explanation below would seem to alleviate the issue I'm having, unfortunately that means recording the Grade 1 students all over again which took an entire school day.
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I'd like to be able to salvage what I have if I could. What if I export the existing movie as is, extract the sound files only in QuickTime Pro--maybe I could import and edit in GarageBand and reimport into iMovie?
As indicated above, this is not necessary since you can export/share your project directly from iMovie '08 as a single audio/video file, video only file, and/or audio only file. Best strategy here would be to export/share your iMovie '08 project content to your final target compression format. GarageBand will import and thumbnail the video and convert the audio to AIFF for editing. When finished editing, export the GarageBand project using the "Export to Disk > Full Quality" option. GarageBand will then take your original video and mix it with your edited audio which is then re-converted back to your original audio codec.
I'm not very conversant in GarageBand (or iMovie for that matter) so I could possibly make a mess of everything but I'll give it a try.
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I made a imovie and then deleted the video clips from my photo library! But now in imovie it won't let me save it or send it, but it lets me see the finished imovie? Please help!!

That one didn't work either. I don't understand why the clips looked fine in Final Cut Pro and look fine in Quicktime but are distorted in iMovie. I know this is an Apple Forum but for crying out loud, is there ANY editing software that I can get that will just play these things correctly while my Quad is in the shop? I even have all of the clips ready for dropping into a timeline (trimmed in QuickTime Pro) and all I need to do is render it into video and audio TS files and I'm good to go. Otherwise I lose a major client! This is crazy because I own Final Cut Studio but my software is back in the States (I'm in London right now)!
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What is the problem?
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Audio editer

I am Looking for a freeware or shareware audio editer that I can put chapter markers in and it can split up into differant files. A standalone program whould work to. I have tryed almost everything out there. HELP!!!!!!

Hi, I made this silent movie to show you it works dragging voice files from iMovie to iTunes!
I did say the exported quicktime file would be a single file, and you can touch that up with Audacity.
Perhaps for more control you take each chapter from itunes into Audacity, do what tweaking you need to do and drag it into the correct place in iMovie timeline to end up with a continuos file.
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