IMovie clips audio issue

I have digitised video in imovie 4, and have imported the files into FCP5. FCP seems to want to render the audio in each file before I can hear it.
Is there a way around this?

WEll you only have to render something one until you make a change to it. an exception would be audio in a timeline as those renders seem to have the need to rerender much more often. Personally, there is no way I would edit an iMovie captured project in FCP without some conversion. I don't know if those clips will open in compressor but if so I would convert them all to an NTSC DV file. Or you could probably batch export from FCP.

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IMovie Clip Speed Issue! Please Help!

Hey Guys.
I have been having a weird issue with iMovie '09. Here are my current iMovie and computer specs.
IMovie '09 - Version 8.0.6 (821) Latest Update
*Running on:*
Macbook 5,1 (Latest Updates)
Mac OS X 10.5.8
Processor - 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory - 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Purchased a little over a year ago.
*My Problem:*
I start a new project in iMovie, I import the footage from my camera (Sony Webbie HD MHS-CM1 Camcorder - 1080p). iMovie imports the footage into 1440 x 1080 .mov files.
When I drag a event clip into the project area. I am able to preview the project as I work on it in the top right hand corner. Next I want to speed up the clip to make it fast forward. I click on the clip in the project, it highlights yellow. I click on the gear in the bottom left hand corner of the clip and click on clip adjustments. If I adjust the speed to any speed, even if I check reverse and I click okay. I preview the project and the preview in the top right corner is frozen at the first frame of the clip. The sound plays from the clip and regular speed. The clip in the project can no longer be adjusted or even selected. All I do from there on is delete the clip, I can't do anything and I am forced to restart the project and do it all over again, which wont work. The problem is I really need to use the clip.
I have tried to restart iMovie and even the computer, but it does nothing.
Please help me fix this problem.
Thanks,
Kyle

Right click on the clip in your Event and see if it gives you the option to Optimize Video. If so, optimize your video and it should be able to do the speed changes.

Merged Clips Audio Issue

Trying this again, having a major problem since update working with merged clips. I merge all my video and audio clips in a pre-workflow project in premiere pro. Just got my footage back from the shoot, labeled and sync'd in the project.
Because Premiere doesn't allow you to have more than 1 project open at a time, I copied the files, closed the pre-workflow project and opened my feature film project I've been working from. Copied the merged clips bin, I click on a clip, video plays fine but there's no audio playback.
I try importing the files from the pre-workflow project using the import project feature, keep only the actual merged clips (as the rest of my project is this way) still no audio. I have cleaned my media cache, reset preferences, even uninstalled premiere and redownloaded. Problem persists.
Can you help me figure out what the issue is so I can get back to making progress on finishing this feature film project?
The only thing different I've done this time that I didn't do last time was copied the audio into the bin with the video clips and merged that way. Before was putting video clips into my master audio bin and merging. But I don't see how this could possibly be the problem.

Going to try, but here is my workflow and have not encountered any problems until this last P/U days footage. I've been doing things this way because I found having all files in the project was causing it to crash constantly when I was working. I have a new I7' processor IMac with 24 gigs of RAM. And since Premiere does not allow you to have multiple projects open at the same time (Wish this would change. Avid and FCP both allowed multiple projects) I have to do things this way.
Pre-workflow Project File
Label all Video and Audio files to match Scene #'/Takes
Set in points on all video and audio to reflect slate
Merge Clips
Working Project File
Import only Merged Clips into Project. Either via import or copy/paste
Now I've done this workflow from just about the very beginning. Deleting all of the original source video and all audio clips from my working project so only my bins containing my merged clips remain. Have had no problems and edit has been smooth. Did a pickup day last week, followed same steps as I've done in the past, imported the merged clips into my working project and the clips have the audio set to none by default. Now once I go into the sequence I can manually set it and it's there but I cannot play audio in the source monitor which is how I edit, there's no reason I should have to go back to the crappy FCP way of editing doing the copy and paste from a sequence.

IMovie Clipping audio from imported video segments

Hey all,
Using MPEGStreamclip with Quicktime MPEG2-Playback, I converted some VOB files ripped from a non-commercial DVD to Quicktime for import into iMovie. The original DVD is PAL format, so I set MPEGStreamclip to export the clips as Quicktime using the Apple DV/DVCPro compression for video and left audio uncompressed.
Upon conversion, if I open these clips with Quicktime Player, everything looks and sounds fine, beginning to end.
However, when I import these clips into iMovie, everything looks and sounds fine except the last six frames of audio for each clip is missing. Just gone.
The VOB files are just over one gig in size (the nature of VOB files, as I understand it) and once converted to QT are about the same size. The QT segments average about six minutes in length
Am I missing something very simple here?
Thanks,
Ron
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

... I believe Quicktime Pro can handle these ...
sorry to correct you, J, (allthough you give excellent advices so far...):
QTpro will convert the video-only of a mpeg... (loss of audio)
for converting AND demuxxing, you need 3rd party tools.
mostly recommended here, is the combo of mpeg2-plugin from apple.com (20$), plus the free tool Streamclip
for beginners, the other option is a very Mac-like app:
DVD2DV (25/80$)

Compound clip audio issue

I record table-top games, and capture audio from an external microphone. I then sync them up into a compound clip with the camera audio muted and the good audio turned up. The problem is, whenever I go to cut up the clip (delete unnecessary bits), there is a very noticeable audio jump between cuts. Like the audio shuts off and on very quickly, even when I just make a splice and don't delete anything. I've cut up different clips using the same equipment numerous times and it has always been seamless, so I am guess that this is an issue with using compound clips. Does any one have a solution? driving me crazy.

TImecode shouldn't matter. FCP doesn't use it. Have you tried the sync function?
you can also select the video and use open in timeline, then add the audio into it to sync it.
COmpound clips shouldn't be involved.
WHat are the audio sample rates?

IMovie 9 Audio Issues

iMovie 9; I have a 17-minute video with lots of edits, inserts, cutaways, still photos, music tracks, etc. Lots of tweaking. I opened the project for some final edits and now most of the b-roll cutaways have full volume audio, even though I've reduced the slider for those tracks to zero and they've worked in the past. Now they are at full volume even though the sliders remain at zero. I've tried detaching the audio, deleting the audio once detached, re-adjusting the audio slider and they still play back at 100%. Even tried going up to 200%, but it seems the Inspector dialog box has no bearing on those b-roll cutaway scenes.
Really frustrating since everything was fine before. Any ideas out there?
BTW I had other earlier issues with some audio tracks falling out of sync with the underlying video, but found the fix for that. Among other things, the Apple store geek suggested I uninstall iMovie 9 and then reinstall it along with all the updates. I did do that, plus I moved all video files to an external hard drive. Now the above problem lingers. Help! please?
Gary

I've been seeing a similar problem using iMovie '11 (version 9.0.4). I first noticed the problem when recently editing a wedding video (I was still on Snow Leopard at the time, but now on Lion). I don't recall seeing the problem on earlier projects, and am not sure what has triggered it. I didn't use speed changes.
I inserted music tracks on parts of the video and adjusted the volume on the main video track (the ambient audio) to zero. However, both audio tracks played back at their original volume (100%). My solution was to exit the project by going back to Project Library view, then clicking on (but not opening) another project. When returning to the wedding project all audio levels were OK, that is, they were playing at the levels I had set. So, the original audio was muted and only the added music could be heard. All audio fades also worked OK, where I had set them on the original audio.
Each time I made a volume change within the project I had to go through the same process in order to silence the original audio, that is, moving backwards and forwards between the Project Library view and Edit view after clicking on another project.
I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro (early 2009) to Lion (Mac OS X 10.7.2) but haven't tested this issue on iMovie '11 as yet while running Lion.
John

Clip Audio issues

I have been using everything just fine and used CS3 to edit last
night got pretty far along in the project and saved it and closed.
When I came back this morning all my files were offline so I tried
Linking the Media but was prompted that a problem existed. So I
started over but now every time I try to drag a video clip down
to my timeline there is no audio attached nor does it come up in
the source preview. Files work fine on all other media players.
Any ideas what is going on?

1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum you plan to post to.
Have searched through these and nothing that I've found has been able to solve the issue.
2. Try to find an answer by searching the Web.
Have searched the web which actually brought me to this site also.
3. Try to find an answer by reading the manual.
I have read the email and gone through all the troubleshooting and help guides attached to the program.
4. Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.
Can't find an FAQ that has my problem on it.
5. Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.
I have been experimenting as I said in both posts and used many of the suggestions I have found and thus far I can't seem to find the problem.
6. Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.
I actually went and asked my mentor on Premiere what he thought was the problem and we sat down for a few hours tinkering to try and figure it out and have thus far resolved nothing.
7. If you're a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source code.
I'm not a programmer.
Now, I really am not an idiot, I get protocol for assistance with these sort of forums and I really am doing all I can on my end. I really was wondering if anyone had any further things that they thought this issue could be due to other than everything posted already in this forum for the last several pages of topics. My last attempt was to convert the file formats of the video I am working with to try and see if that would resolve the issue but it seems to be doing the same thing for every single file I put into the bin. When I drag and drop it onto my Timeline there is no audio and there isn't any when I preview it either.This is the case with M-PEG's, .movs, .avi's, and .mkv's which I had a horrendous time getting Premiere to acknowledge.
It really is an all of the sudden issue that happened within a matter of hours. Any ideas about what is behind it.

IMovie '11 audio issue on avi export

I created a project which is composed by a video track imported from my mobile and an audio track imported from an external mp3 file. I have completely switched off the volume from the original video track (turned down to 0%) so that only the mp3 is hearable.
When exporting the project as an m4v video everything goes well but if I export it as an avi file the original sound of the video track comes back hearable and is overlapped to the mp3 audio track.
How can I solve this?

I created a project which is composed by a video track imported from my mobile and an audio track imported from an external mp3 file. I have completely switched off the volume from the original video track (turned down to 0%) so that only the mp3 is hearable.
When exporting the project as an m4v video everything goes well but if I export it as an avi file the original sound of the video track comes back hearable and is overlapped to the mp3 audio track.
How can I solve this?

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!

IMovie moving audio clips when transitions are added

iMovie moving audio clips when transitions are addedI have some video clips that need simple fades to black added at the end. However, whenever I add the fade out transition, iMovie does something insane. Instead of the last two seconds of video fading to black and the last two seconds of audio fading out, it seems that a random two seconds of audio from elsewhere in the clip is tacked onto the end and faded. This problem is nuts and I am having no luck finding a solution. Does anyone have one? This has happened with other transitions, but I’d settle for just getting a fade to black to work properly. Is this only a problem with Intel machines?

The problem that you describe has come up frequently on this forum. There are lots of things people have tried, but no solution has been found, other than the workaround of extracting the audio, as Klaus 1 mentions, and manually adjusting the fade out. Some feel that it is an intel machine problem, but that is not clear.
For more information on this issue, try using the search function of this forum, typing in "audio echo with transitions", or some other appropriate search words. You might find of interest the information contained in the following post:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5681815

IMovie for iphone 4 audio issues

I'm noticing 2 serious audio issues:
1) after adding some music from my song library to a clip of my wife talking, I can barely hear her. iMovie is supposed to reduce the volume of the song. Well, it doesn't look like it's doing it properly--the volume of the music is WAY too loud.
2) when I add a 2nd clip of her talking, the audio on this clip disappears entirely. All I hear is the song. Even after removing the song from the timeline, the audio of the clip is still missing. I can't believe the imovie team never noticed this bug.

pixelpaulart wrote:
2) when I add a 2nd clip of her talking, the audio on this clip disappears entirely. All I hear is the song. Even after removing the song from the timeline, the audio of the clip is still missing. I can't believe the imovie team never noticed this bug.
I believe when you add a Video clip to a Project that contains a Music track, the Audio for the Video track is muted. Simply enable it via the "Clips Settings".
Try this:
Double tap the Video Clip to bring up the "Clips Settings" window.
Tap the ON / OFF toggle to turn the Audio ON for your video track.

IMovie share to file - audio issues

I'm trying to share an iMovie video clip to file and the exported file has audio issues - a sort of flapping sound. The sound is fine when I'm in iMovie. I've tried different video qualities and saving it to different places. Any ideas on what the problem is?

I am also having a similar issue. The music is perfect in iMovie, however once I share to Theatre or iTunes, the music is distorted. Could it have something to do with the audio volume? Has anyone experienced this?
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No audio on homepage video and its original iMovie clip

Can't find answer in discussions. Can anyone help?
Checked my homeage on .Mac, found one video clip has no audio suddenly.
All audio hardware is OK, volumes are OK, everything else is audible.
Checked iSync file for the video. Same, no audio.
Checked back to original iMovie clip and the audio clip shows on timeline but audio for this clip (and one other one) won't play. Rest of audio for the iMovie project it's from plays OK.
Tried discussion suggestion of playing a few notes in GarageBand (to clear an audio conflict?)-- didn't work. Audio on original iMovie clip won't play.
Any idea what can be causing this one clip to have audio failure? And how to get the clips' audio playing again so the iSync .Mac hompage clip can be replaced?
Related to this problem (?): Several months ago upgraded to QT 7 and previous QT 6.5.2 iMovie wouldn't load, found here in discussions to uninstall 7 and redownload 6.5.2, which I did and iMovie loaded/played OK.
Recently updated iTunes. Wondering if that caused this problem and how to uninstall that update if it is the cause.

A bizarre false alarm. After spending 3 hours running utilities, checking download reinstallers info. etc., turned out to be hardware connection. Had fitted a mono plug to a stereo plug for mono recorder monitoring for both ears. Original track on video was in mono feeding out on one channel. That channel wasn't the one the mono plug was feeding through, hence no audio on the mono clips. Yes, should have set the audio to mono on the original mono iMovie clips.
A reminder to check every little hardware issue first.
E Mac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Just recently, when I put clips into iMovie, the audio and video are not in sync. How can I fix this problem?

Whenever I try to make a video on iMovie, the audio is not in sync with the video. This just happened recently. I have no clue what is causing the problem, or how to fix it. What should I do?

Hi samueldoherty,
If you are having audio issues during video playback in iTunes, you may find the following articles helpful:
iTunes and QuickTime for Windows: Audio does not play or plays incorrectly
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1362
Troubleshooting iTunes for Windows Vista or Windows 7 video playback performance issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1718
Regards,
- Brenden

More Audio issues...

Along with the sounds / tones truncating / cutting off, I was listening to some mp3's today and the sound was constantly cutting in and out of stereo mode. Left ear worked most of the time, right ear worked maybe 1/4th of the time. Whatever happened to the sound coding in the latest update, it needs to be fixed.
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

I have searched in vain for an answer to this
problem. I have a 15" Powerbook Aluminum, 1.5 Ghz G4
w/ 1.25G RAM and 10 GB available on the harddrive.
I am working with iMovie 6 with all my movie files on
a LaCie external drive connected using a FW800
connection. 195GB capacity, with about 20GB being
used up with iMovie files.
Here's my issue. When I import video alone into a
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(either AIFF or MP3), the playback slows to a crawl,
the video is severely stuttery and the audio is
distorted and plays at about half speed (like playing
a 33rpm LP at 16rpm).
If I delete the video and import the audio clips,
same issue w/slowness and distortion.
If I import the audioc clips singly, they play and
sync well with the video to a point, but there's a
threshhold at which the playback begins to degrade
and the audio issues return.
Very frustrating. Who can point me to some likely
culprits? Of, and this began happening in iMovie 5. I
was hoping iMovie 6 would solve. no joy.
Thanks all - Joel
OK - here's an update. I dumped my caches, fixed permissions, made changes to QT settings and reset the MIDI settings and the result? The audio is now running fine BUT the video is now not running (or at least ex-treme-ly sl-ooooooow-ly).
Any thoughts folks? I'd be eager to hear your input!

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