Is there a way to "shrink" or "stretch" an audio track to fit the video?

Hi all,
I've filmed a family event and decided to use an external audio recorder to pick up better detail of the participants further away from the cam's mike.
The length of the event is about 35 mins. and the audio (if sync'd at the start) will be out by a good 30 secs. by the end.
Can I "adjust" this from within iMovie or do I need an external app. to edit the .wav from the sound recorder?
I did search the forum, but some of the links were dead and some references are made to FCE or apps unknown to me.
Thanks for all your help!

Hi
As far as I know - This can not be done in any version of iMovie.
I would
Import material from Camera into iMovie (or other video editor eg iM HD6 or FCE/P)
Then export audio from this as .aiff via Export as QuickTime expert mode - 16-bit 48kHz so I can use this as a mould
Then I would use any Audio-Editor - Audacity (free on internet) and by using this import the other recorded audio
Now by having the Camera original audio on one set of tracks - I can put the recorded audio on-top of this and use Pitch shift to increase or de-crease it but without losing in frequence (Chipmunks or Giant - sounding)
Then when very exact match - Export out the audio from recorder and now as .aiff 16-bit 48kHz too
When imported this into iMovie and muted Camera audio - It should work.
There was a program "Amazing Slow-downer" which could do this too - but it was not free and You still had to do this outside iMovie.
Yours Bengt W

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