My fix for audio "pops" problem in iMovie HD.

This might already be out there, but I thought I'd share it anyway. This is regarding the problem where you get a noticable "pop" sound between clips and transitions. Here's what I did and it worked:
In the timeline I have a number of photos and video clips. Most of the movie is going to be put to music. But for the few clips that I want to use the video, I extracted the video into a different audio line. Then I unchecked the audio button to the right of the timeline. Now when I add the transistions, I don't get that pop sound. It takes a little more time, but what else can we do until Apple fixes the problem.
Hope this helps.

I have not encountered that problem. But it's common for little glitches like that to occur occasionally. Preferences and permissions can get corrupted. Your problem might be project related and not occur in other projects. (You can do a short test project to find out.) In any event, it probably will not appear in the project when you burn it to a DVD. For the heck of it, you might try doing a quick share to iDVD and playback your project there.
When little glitches like this develop, it often helps to delete preferences and then do a permissions repair. To delete preferences, close iMovie and trash the file named com.apple.iMovie.plist located in User (the House icon)/Library/Preferenes. Then do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app on your Mac. This is found in the Utilties folder. In the left side of the Disk Utility window, select your Mac HD icon and then click on the Repair Permissions button. It takes about 3 or 4 minutes for your Mac to repair permissions. Once that is done, relaunch iMovie. iMovie will create a new .plist file to replace the one that you deleted.
Now see if you still have the problem.

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