No audio waveforms in iMovie HD 6

I have not been able to get audio waveforms to display in the Time Line in iMovie HD 6.0.4, under any circumstances.
Any clues?

Waveforms are not there. Both areas are just gray
You mean that the two audio timelines below the video timeline are empty? That would be because you don't have any separate audio except what is contained in the video.
To get the full waveform etc you first have to extract the audio. Click on the clip in question, go to Advanced and click on Extract Audio. This will take a few moments.
Now the audio in the clip has had its volume turned to zero (i.e. muted, but it is still there) and a copy of the audio from that clip is now in one of the audio timelines. If you expand the timeline a bit you will see the audio waveforms.
You edit the audio in the same way as you edit the video: by clicking on the audio clip.

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I am confused by your question. You cannot see audio wave forms nor volume lines in the clip view. You must be in the timeline view where you see the video and audio tracks.
You will see a straight line of 'clip volume levels' in both the audio and video clips.
Howeve, you can see audio wave forms only in the audio tracks if you have added audio clips to the tracks. There are no audio wave forms to be seen on video clips.

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I'm new, more or less to the imovie forum.
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press - Shift+cmd+4 - and mark a significant area
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or
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I clicked on "View Audio Waveforms" under "View" as I'm editing my movie.
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Showing audio waveforms
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iMovie/6.0/en/imv1133.html
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