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..

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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.

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
User>Library>Preferences>com.apple.imovie7.plist
Now restart iMovie and see if you can get the Audio and Video adjustment windows to show.
Matt

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.
Insert DVD
Open Disk Utility
Select disck and "New Image" and saved to desktop
Opened iMovie
Imported movie

Here is a way to do it that should work for you.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3951

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!

Download and import YouTube videos to iMovie for editing

Download and import YouTube videos to iMovie for editing
YouTube always provides people with raw video materials on all sorts of things happened worldwide in real time. Video lovers are fond of downloading these files as private collection, even using video editors like iMovie to do further editing of their favorite ones, so as to import them to portable devices like iPod, iPhone, PSP, Blackberry, etc. for playback, or upload to their own websites to share with others, or do something else as they like.
However, not all the people have found a proper way to download YouTube videos, not to mention how to add these files to iMovie for editing. YouTube videos are in the format of FLV, which is not a workable format in iMovie, so if you want to import YouTube videos to it without trouble, you should convert FLV files to iMovie compatible formats such as MPEG-4 and MOV in advance. With the special intention of solving these two problems, this guide will show you how to download YouTube videos and import them to iMovie for editing step by step. If you are in need, just feel free to go along with it.
Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube YouTube Converter for Mac
This converter can process downloading and conversion simultaneously. Once you launch it, the interface below well pop up.
Step 2: Add URL, select output format and set save path
Press tag “Add URL” in the above interface, and then the following window will appear. Just copy and paste the URL of the YouTube video file which you want to download and convert to the text box after “URL”. Then select a supportable format for iMovie by clicking the drop-down list of “Convert To”. Here I choose MOV for example.
Afterwards, you can insert the storage file name in the text box of “Save As”, if not, the program will generate one automatically. Here I save my file as “mycollection”. Meanwhile, you are allowed to hit “Browse” in the opposite side of “Save To” to specify the destination folder. By the way, if you want to save the original FLV files, you are allowed to tick the checkbox “Save FLV File” to achieve this goal.
Step 3: Custom
This program enables you to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and channels, so that you can change them randomly according to your own demands. Generally speaking, the options which refer to values are always in condition of the larger values, the larger file size, but better quality. Do remember click “OK” to save your custom settings.
Step 4: Download and convert
Once all the settings are done, you can click “OK” button to start. The following window will show you the progress of downloading and conversion.
Step 5: Import the output MOV files to iMovie
As soon as the YouTube video files have been downloaded and converted to MOV or other iMovie workable format, you can click “Open” at lower right corner of the above interface to find out the output files. Afterwards, launch iMovie, and click File > Import to add the output files to iMovie for editing.
Tips:
1. This program supports batch tasks so that you can download multiple YouTube video files in batches at a time.
2. Pavtube YouTube Converter for Mac adopts multi-threading technology, which makes its download speed is faster than any other similar YouTube downloader.
3. Besides YouTube.com, it can also automatically detect and download online videos in the format of .flv, and f4v from many other video-sharing websites, like Yahoo Video, Myspace, Google Video, Fox and more.
4. It also provides users with conversion function, with which you can convert any YouTube FLV/F4V files to other formats like MP4, MKA, WAV, AC3, MKV, FLV, MP3, M4A, 3GP, AVI, MOV, MPG, etc. at will.
5. If you only use it as a YouTube downloader without format conversion, you can take it as a piece of freeware.
All right, this guide is ending up now; hope it will do you a favor while downloading video files from YouTube as well as importing them to iMovie for further editing.

It's a clip from CNN (with all credits etc. added). When one refers to it as a clip posted on "YouTube", then people understand the quality will be poor.
I've watched television go from everything shot on a tripod with clean, meticulous editing rules, to almost anything goes. It has to do with cultural reference.

Is this a cure for the "Infamous iMovie Audio Blast" glitch?

Hi. Long time lurker, first time poster.
Ever since leaving iMovie 2 I have encountered the dreaded "quick blast" of sound at the beginning of a transition. This frequently happens when transitioning from a still clip, or a second of black, to a video clip.
The workaround I discovered today is working very well. I've read every post I could find in this and other forums regarding the audio problems, but haven't seen this relatively easy solution before. If someone has previously posted this, my appologies.
The short answer is : turn the still frame into a video clip, then lower it's volume to 0%
If you check the volume level of a still frame, it will say 0%. I think this is not true. Even though there is no audio on a still frame, the volume level is really at 100%. Once you turn it into a video clip, and lower it to 0%, it will no longer cause the audio blast at the beginning of the next video clip or transition.
There are probably several ways to convert a still frame into a video clip. Applying an effect is what I did. I applied Virtix Zoom, at the minimum setting (no zoom). Other effects that involve movement or a gradual change, in their "neutral" setting, will probably work as well.
Before the effect is rendered, the following dialogue box pops up:
"This effect generates different results for each frame, which will not show up on Still Clips. Do you want to convert selected Still Clips to regular clips to apply this effect?"
Select "Convert". Once the effect has been applied, lower the volume to 0%, and add a transition between the now converted still clip and the regular video clip. The "Infamous iMovie Audio Blast" is now gone.
The other time I've had this problem is following a section of black. Instead of creating a black section by dragging clips apart in the timeline, place the head over the first frame of any existing "fade in" transition, go to your edit menu and "Create Still Frame". Then turn this still frame into a video clip using the method above.
Does this work for anyone else? It solved a major problem for me.
G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi bmitchell,
That's a great solution to the "old" audio glitch (which I've also experienced in the past). I think it has been fixed in later versions of iMovie/QuickTime, as I've not noticed it for a while. As you can see from my details, I'm using iMovie 6 (just updated to 6.0.2) and the latest QT 7.1 - what are you currently running? I notice that you've posted in the iMovie HD forum - are you still on version 5?
But back to your solution - well done! I don't recall ever seeing that solution posted previously - it would have been handy when I was having problems. I used to export the offending clips/transitions to QT then re-import to iMovie - but won't go through the whole process again here (unless anyone wants more information).
Thanks for your post - hopefully if you upgrade to Tiger (are you on 10.3.9?) and also to the latest versions of iMovie and QuickTime, the issue might go away!
Cheers
John

Missing audio edits in YouTube

I load iMovie 11 media file into GB for my audio editing. Works great and then I SHARE as a Quicktime .mov. Quicktime .mov now plays back as it should with ALL my audio edits. Then I upload this file by dragging and dropping the .mov file into YouTube (Yes, it's the correct file) and when played back on YouTube, only original unedited audio track is played back............
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.......
Anyone have any ideas how to correct this?
I have the latest iMovie 11 and Garageband and Quicktime running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
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!
Thanks to all who volunteered the FLATTEN idea! I had called Apple and they said it wasn't their problem as the QT .mov file played back okay while in Apple territory.
THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP!

Advanced audio editing

I am trying to add a music clip to a video with effects and voice, but I want the voice to duck the music, but the music to duck the sound effects (explosions/etc), is there a way to do this?
Here's is a simplified breakdown of what I mean:
0-15 seconds I want the music to be at max volume, and the video audio to be 50% volume
15-30 seconds I want the music to be at 50% volume, and the video (this is where the voice comes in) to be at max volume.
30 seconds til 2:05 I want the music to be at max volume, and the video to be at 50%
2:05-2:15 Video back at max, audio at 50%
Is there a way to do this?

The Ducking feature will suppress every other track by the percentage you specify. For this reason, you don't want to Duck two clips at the same time.
It would be more straightforward for you to just adjust the volume levels rather than use the ducking.
As of iMovie 11, you can select a range within your audio clip and apply a volume (rather than apply the volume to the whole clip). So I would do it that way.
See the video at this link called "All new audio editing".

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.
How so? If recorded separately and brought into iMovie for editing, then the same files can be brought into GarageBand for editing from the original source location/management application. If the "voiceovers" were made directly to iMovie '08, then they can be exported either as an audio track along with your video or exported separately as an audio only file like AIFF. In either case, the audio track (or tracks) are edited separately from video in GarageBand. E.g., if you need to physically split an audio track in GarageBand, you select the track you wish to edit, move the playhead to the point where you which to split the track, and simply select the "Split" Edit menu option. If you then deselect the track as a whole and re-select one of the split portions, it can then be dragged to a different track, or, if the is space available, moved along the time axis for alignment to the video track. Periods of silence can be delete if present and, as to the actual adjustments to the audio such as fades and setting of volume, each audio segment on any audio track can be manipulated in much the same way you used to do this in the old version of iMovie using the "rubber band" contour/control. In many ways you may find your audio editing more reminiscent of iMovie HD than iMovie '08.
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.
GarageBand also has a "Revert to Saved" option which will return you to your last saved version of your project but if you fail to make periodic saves during the work session, you won't get the most out of this option.

IMovie audio stutter+ iDvD audio encoding = Toast ?

In the 8 days since I finally got into iMovie, then iDvD, I've encountered both the skittery / unstable audio Playback of iMovie audio & now iDvd's audio encoding issues . [ app "not responding" while still chuggin' away, etc\etc. ]
It was good to hear from an iApp specialist that these are known issues being 'addressed'.
But it's quite disheartening when a GoOgle ( or Forum ) Search shows woes & hope from 2005 & before.
Will iLife 7 iron out much ? [ or introduce a whole new set for us to spend months grappling with ? ]
My real question here, well the head-of-the-line question ! . . . is > after reading a Macobserver post from 2/06 on Toast 7, I have to wonder if it fills in many gaps and opens the pallette while solving some problems.
It doesn't have slide transitions , but it's work could go to iMovie/iDvd ??
( too many toys in the toybox !! -- pardon my overwhelment )
One hard-fact question that's more answerable is > After my 1st "hung in audio // not responding" Disk Image burn , a Wec-Chat Agent considered it 'dead' & I cancelled it. Is there a headless body in a folder somewhere ?, and is that what "delete encoded assets" is for ??
_TIA_
~~~=Dave

So !...I'm a' confused w/ all the ways to 'archive'
an iMovie project. i created an .img, a
Data-Disc...which could burn a DvD of the project,
but not open in iMovie...yes ?
Warning: we're going to jump a bit from topic to topic.
• An archive is a backup copy of something. The purpose of the archive is to preserve the thing as it exists today. An archive of an iMovie project "captures" it as it exists today. If necessary, months from now you can use the archive to re-create the project as it exists today.
• The archive can take many forms. It can be stored as a disk image — a file stored on your computer that uses a .dmg suffix and looks and acts like a hard disk. Or it can be a ".zip" file created in the Finder. Or it can be a simple duplicate of the project stored on a hard disk or DVD. (A disk image file or zip file does not save significant hard disk space. An iMovie project can't be compressed to any significant extent.)
• iMovie's menu command File > Burn Project to Disc is there for the convenience of iMovie users wanting to copy the project to a DVD — as a computer file. But iMovie can burn a DVD only if the entire iMovie project fits on one disc. Technically, it doesn't create an standalone archive, it simply copies the project — with all the files and folders the project contains — onto the DVD, then burns the DVD.
• The Finder lets us create an standalone archive of a file or folder, using the File > Create Archive Of command. The command copies everything to a file that has a ".zip" suffix. If we want, we can tell the Finder to burn the zip file onto a DVD. The zip file has to fit on one DVD.
• Backup applications like Retrospect can create archives too. Retrospect can store the archive on a variety of media. The backup is stored in a format only Retrospect understands.
• Most of us also have another backup solution available to use with iMovie. Exporting the iMovie project back to tape is a good backup. For most projects, the clips return as clips when the tape is re-imported to a new project. Clips like titles and transitions are no longer editable, of course. Note you must re-import the material to access it.
IS there a way to save a 29 GB project to one DvD
• Regrettably, no. An iMovie (or iDVD) project cannot be larger than will fit on one DVD. Most iMovie projects are larger, of course. For them, the File > Burn project to disk command cannot be used.
• Software exists, however, that lets us back up an iMovie (or iDVD) project across multiple DVDs. These include Toast and Retrospect, the pre-eminent Mac backup software.
• iMovie projects stored on DVDs have one huge disadvantage, however. We must copy the project back to the hard drive to open it in iMovie. iMovie doesn't let us open a project stored on a DVD, for Movie can't write to the disc. (The DVD is, by definition, a locked medium.)
Note too that if the backup DVD is created by Retrospect, Retrospect is required to copy it back to the hard disk. (Sorry, I'm not familiar with Toast.)
• The Finder's File > New Burn Folder lets us burn computer files to a DVD as files. It can copy disk images, zip files and any other kind of computer files and folders to the DVD. Used in this way, the DVD functions like a small hard disk. It can't burn across multiple DVDs.
• A DVD containing data files is different from the DVD iDVD normally creates for us. DVD Normally creates TV-playable DVDs, not data-file DVDs. For these, iDVD encodes the video of our iMovie projects as MEPG-2 video, the language a DVD player understands. No computer data files are involved, at least not files a computer normally understands.
• The iDVD command File > Archive Project serves a different purpose than the archive of an iMovie project. Yes, it backs up the iDVD project too, but we usually make it for a different reason.
The iDVD project has no video or audio of its own, just a link to the reference movie iMovie stores inside the iMovie project. If we want to be able to burn a DVD of the current iMovie project some time later, or burn a DVD after the iMovie project has been discarded, we will have a problem. The source material may be gone. The iDVD archive solves this problem by storing a copy of the source material inside its archive.
So If you want to preserve an iDVD project as it exists today you can tell iDVD to create an archive the includes all the necessary source material from the iMovie project. Now the source material will be "static". We can open the archive sometime later, edit the DVD menus if we want, and burn another DVD.
• iDVD also offers the File > Save As Disk image. This command is not associated with archiving. This command is almost the same as burning a DVD, but it "burns" the encoded material as a disk image file instead of a physical DVD.
The disk image can be played in DVD Player on our Macs, and we can use Disk Utility to burn a DVD of the disk image.
"Burning" a disk image from iDVD is a good way to check the encoding by iDVD. If the disk image "burns" okay, the physical DVD we burn with Disk Utility will probably be okay too.
• As you suggested, the best solution may be an external hard drive. It's not only the easiest to use, it lets us access the iMovie project whenever we want.
• Much of what I've said is associated with routine backups, so I want to say a word about those. We always need backups of our important projects. At the very least, we need to keep a copy on a separate drive. Drives fail.
Experts say that we need to back up our computers daily, and maintain three backup copies, called backup sets. We need two backup sets that we alternate every day or so, both stored on site. And a third backup set stored off-site. (Off-site because our beach house may burn down and the high tides caused by global warming may carry the ashes out to sea.)
Retrospect does an incremental backup for me each night, backing up all the Macs in the house. The on-site backup not being used by Retrospect is stored in a fireproof data safe — a fireproof paper safe isn't cool enough. The third backup set is stored in a safe deposit box at a bank. I rotate the bank set every month or so with one of the two in-house backup sets. The two in-house backup sets are rotated every few days.
For backup media I use "bare" drives connected to a Firewire "dock", like this ComboDock. The drives snap on/off in seconds.
http://www.wiebetech.com/products/ComboDock.php
• Some on-line retailers include Retrospect with the drives they sell.
Hope something here is useful.
Karl

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.
Ideally iMovie should have the editing capabilities of Audacity but it doesnt.
regards

Extract iMovie Audio

I've got some video that I've been playing with in iMovie '05. The audio has quite a bit of background noise that I need to filter out. Also, the person that was being video taped had a microphone that kept cutting in and out so the volume of his voice changes quite a bit.
Is there a way to extract the audio from the movie to an MP3 file or something like that so it can be edited in an audio program? If so, what audio program would be recommended? I'm new to Macs so I'm not familiar with what software is available. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Bluehand,
"Is there a way to extract the audio from the movie"
Yes there is.
Choose File>Share>QuickTime and select Expert Setting from the drop down menu. Now click Share and you'll be presented with more options.
Select Sound to AIFF. The resulting file can be brought into GarageBand or other audio editing software as Sue suggests.
Matt

I'm using ezcap.tv 116 ezgamer capture card to record my PS3, this is on a windows laptop, Im then moving the recorded videos in mpg format over to my MacBook Pro to use IMovie to edit them to upload to youtube but it won't let me import them.

I'm using ezcap.tv 116 ezgamer capture card to record my PS3, this is on a windows laptop, Im then moving the recorded videos in mpg format over to my MacBook Pro to use IMovie to edit them so i can upload them to youtube but it won't let me import them, even after changeing them to MP4 format, it just comes up with the message: "No Importable Files None of the selected files or folders can be imported. Change the selection and try again."
Ive even tried opening in itunes and copying from thier but they wont open in Itunes, no message or anything they simple just dont open. its strange because it does open in quicktime player.
please if anyone has any ideas that can help me please let me know XD thanks.

First problem: You're fine. The hotter it gets, the more the fans spin up. The computer is designed so that at max load, at max fan speed, it won't overheat (unless it's obstructed by something, e.g. sitting on your bed swallowed by a comforter). It's not the best thing to keep it that toasty for days at a time, but a couple hours at a time shouldn't be a problem.
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