No audio from clips from camera

I am using iMovie HD 6 and I have transferred my clips from cam corder. The problem I am having is that I am manually dragging video clips from my camera to iMovie and the clips go in except they have no audio. Any solutions to this problem would be great...

What kind of camcorder are we talking about? I suspect this isn't a tape based MiniDV type camera, right? And instead you are importing from some sort of DVD, Flash, or hard drive based camera? If so are the videos in MPEG format when you add them to iMovie?
QuickTime expects video files with separate video and audio tracks, but many MPEG formats used a muxed (multiplexed) single track that contains both. Therefore, when you convert videos they sometimes only get the video and no sound since iMovie (really QuickTime) is not looking for the audio track within the video track and it gets lost.
Here is an article explaining it when you try to convert video to iPod format...
iPod plays video but not audio of some exported files
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302588
One way to work around this is to use MPEG Streamclip to convert the files to fix this issue...
http://www.squared5.com/
More info you might be able to find here...
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6030.shtml
Patrick

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Question ???
I see that the command " extract audio from clip" is not correct.
ìn fact, the audio extracted is only duplicate on a second track, but the original audio track with a low the sound level remain into the clip.
Is it possible to extract correctly a such audio track ant trash it permanently ?Thank you for your help.
Claude PANGAUD
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to CATSPAW
Sorry, but it is not the right way for my problem.
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- dropping audio to zero: same effect.
In fact, it is impossible to put out this audio track ?????
Now, I think that this track is the responsable of disturbance of iDVD.
Your process, by loading each clip in QT pro, extrating audio, and reloading iMovie is correct, but not easy to work with a long timeline. And, also, it is not possible to fluctuate between the inside audio track and added audio: for exemple, to remove the undesirable noises and to preserve an amical speech of a friend.
Another question: why these crashes of iDVD occurs with a long timeline and not with the short one??? May be is the overall power of my Mac which is too slight??? In that case, I will be obliged to buy a QUAD Apple Power Mac G5 Dual Core 2,5 GHz, as FERRARI video set ????
So long;
Claude PANGAUD
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