MPEGs with sound in iMovie

Well I have a digital camera that records movies with sound, but when I try to import them into iMovie they end up with no sound. The help manual says that MPEGs wont work with sound in iMovie. So I was wondering, is there anyway to convert my MPEG movies into somthing iMovie compatible for sound like a .mov or DV. I've tried many products but they all seem to convert the video and leave the sound out just like iMovie does? Please help me.

Hi Scott:
Welcome to discussions!
iMovie does not work with muxed MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 clips
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42996
But Dan shows you how..
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6030.shtml
Sue

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Have you tried...
in PowerPoint
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Hi, im a newbie, so I have lots of questions with sound in imovie.
I have a digital camrea which does the mpeg movie thing.
so when I import the movie into imovie I see the video but I hear no sound.
I know this was covered in some topics, but I being new to this I really didnt understand.
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Hi PK - welcome to the forum!
Increasingly, people with digital still cameras want to import their short movie clips created with that camera. BUT the catch is that these movies are NOT in .dv format. They are MPEGs, and if they are MPEG1 or MPEG2 then they must be converted to DV before they will import into iMovie with the audio able to play.
This conversion usually can be done with a free app. called MPEG StreamClip, but may also need another piece of software called the Apple MPEG2 Playback Component (which costs about $20)..
A search in this forum for those, will give you several threads on the issue!
Look here, for example, for more about the method required:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/%7Eshmhav/SVCDon_a_Macintosh.html#edit_convertMPEG
NOTE that iMovie was designed for DV use (a high-quality editing format), not the much lower quality MPEG footage.

MPEG no sound - downloaded streamclip to convert but still nothing

I have movie files that are MPEG1 Muxed and whenever I import them into imovie HD they play without sound. I saw the following posts:
Posts: 8
From: NOLA
Registered: Dec 26, 2006
Importing MPEG... No sound?
Posted: Jan 10, 2007 4:13 PM
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Hi,
My friend sent me clips for me to edit for him. They are in MPEG format, but when I import them into iMovie I have no sound.
Could someone help me fix this please.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Did this topic solve your issue?
SDIllini
Posts: 7,919
From: Midwest USA
Registered: Jan 4, 2005
Re: Importing MPEG... No sound?
Posted: Jan 10, 2007 4:17 PM in response to: wbren7
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Hi wbren:
iMovie does not work with muxed MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 clips (and that's what you're trying to do)
Look here for an explaination:
Can not hear audio in iMovie when I import an MPEG clip
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6030.shtml
:)Sue
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Did this topic solve your issue?
I tried this. I downloaded streamclip and dragged the mpeg file into the application and the movie played with sound but I dont know how to use streamclip to transform the file into one that can be played with sound on imovie. Can anyone help me for the love of god?
mac book pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

you have to choose in the many export options of Streamclip "Export as DV", or simply hit the key combo alt-Apple-e ....
i downloaded that streamclip and did that export as dv but when i tried to put it in my itunes it said that it does not appear to be a valid exported file and now i cant put it on my ipod some one help please

Converting MPEGs to play sound on Imovie

Hi
Last night a friend took his camera over to try and improve some of his movies on my Imovie. Every thing went fine until I imported it into Imovie and the sound was lost. It seemed to be the software as the movie clip played fine through Quicktime. When we delved into the help menues it did tell us that the sound had been lost if we were importing an MPEG. THis was true enough when we checked. What confused us was that other clips were playing fine in Imove however these were from my own camera and were AVI files.
We couldn't however find any help on how to solve the problem. I tried saving the MPEG file to and AVI in IMovie but this obviously had no sound either.
Can anyone tell me how i can get these MPEGs to play in IMOVIE with sound??
regards
aw

hi
thanks for the advice.
I see that i am using Imovie HD 6.0.3. I don't know whether that makes any difference?
So I have to download Imovie 8 and if i import the MPEGs into it the sound should come through?
or do i still have to convert the MPEGS into AVI. I don't want to if i can get the MPEGS tpo play sound.
aw

Thanks for the reply to my question regarding sound in iMovie and sending me the online links. however the online links are impossible to play as they upload too slowly with the result that the playing keeps stopping waiting for the content to catch up

Thanks for your reply to my question regarding sound in iMovie. However I cannot follow the links you sent as they upload too slowly and therefore the instructional movie keeps stopping waiting for the content toload. Surely theremust be a solution for this??
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lolly

Please continue posting in your original thread.
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I've converted my videos to MPEG-4 using Quicktime Pro, and they play fine but with no sound.
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I've converted my videos to MPEG-4 using Quicktime Pro, and they play fine but with no sound. Is this the application I need to convert them with sound? http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
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Welcome Ricky Brigante
Not exactly sure what the issue is here on why it failed to burn the audio as well but did you look thru the iDVD help menu first?
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Preparing QuickTime movies to work with iDVD
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I'm trying to import video (MPEG format) into iMovie HD, but when I do, it loses all sound. I've tried the troubleshooting tips within the program and none have worked. THe sound works when I play the video in Quicktime, so I have no idea what the problem is. Does anyone have any thoughts? Thanks.

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
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