Imovie audio is no longer recording

I recorded a movie a while back, but when I came back to it a few months later I couldn't record anything else. I deleted all of the yellow triangle files with no success. I'm using a logitec usb headset mic. Does anyone know what's going on?

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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%
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Before the effect is rendered, the following dialogue box pops up:
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an iMovie project. i created an .img, a
Data-Disc...which could burn a DvD of the project,
but not open in iMovie...yes ?
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.)
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http://www.wiebetech.com/products/ComboDock.php
• Some on-line retailers include Retrospect with the drives they sell.
Hope something here is useful.
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Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro5,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          2.4 GHz
Number of Processors:          2
Total Number of Cores:          8
L2 Cache (per Core):          256 KB
L3 Cache (per Processor):          12 MB
Memory:          8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed:          5.86 GT/s
Boot ROM Version:          MP51.007F.B03
SMC Version (system):          1.39f11
SMC Version (processor tray):          1.39f11
ATI Radeon HD 5770:
Chipset Model:          ATI Radeon HD 5770
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
Slot:          Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          1024 MB
Vendor:          ATI (0x1002)
Device ID:          0x68b8
Revision ID:          0x0000
ROM Revision:          113-C0160C-155
EFI Driver Version:          01.00.436
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1. Record long video clips on mrc1k recording unit cf card so that clips will be split into multiple sections due to fat32 filesystem.
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3. Copy contents of card image on to editing drive array.
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