Low iSight audio in iMovie

When I record from my iSight in iMovie HD, I get good video but very low audio levels. It's fine in iChat, very clear for others on the receiving end. This only occurs in iMovie. I'm running Tiger and the latest version of iMovie. Anyone have this problem or know of a solution? Thanks!

You're welcome, Peter,
Because it works correctly in iChat AV, the only other thought I have is whether you are sitting in the same position relative to iSight when you are making your iMovie clips as when you use iSight with iChat AV. If you sit farther away or off center of the iSight axis, the mic may just be receiving, and thus recording, lower levels.
If this does not help you, you might try reviewing the FAQs, searching for "low volume" (without the quotation marks) or posting your question in iMovie HD Discussions. Perhaps the iMovie HD users can offer you better suggestions?
<small>EZ Jim</small>

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two notes
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a. in iMovie pref. - deselect ” Playback via Camera”
b. in System preferences - see that Audio out is not set to zero. Mine often does this
without me knowing why.
4. iMovie’08 & 09 & 11
• Toggle audio-scimming by cmd-K
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1. FileVault is ON - Turn it off
2. More than 50 audio files in a movie-project
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3. Project is stored on one (USB) external hard disk - should be a FireWire one
4. the External hard disk is not Mac OS Extended formatted - but
UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange and this will not work for Video.
5. To little free space on internal boot hard disk.
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4x3 SD Video. For 16x9 HD my guess would be about 5 times more at least.
Neither Mac OS, iMovie or iDVD can address any other hard disk than the boot drive for it’s
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No audio on DVD disc.
Most common origin.
1. Imported audio from iTunes.
• In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)
• Use this in Your movie project
2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
(iM’08 & 09)
3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large
large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
Minuscular - - 176x144
Mobile - - - - - 480x360
Medium - - - - 640x480
Large - - - - - - 720x540 960x540
HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720
4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
• Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
6. Ed Hanna
Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.
7. GarageBand fix.
In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
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• Double click on the .img file
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Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
• In iDVD 08 - or - 09
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