Problems editing song length in iMovie

I've deselected "Trim background music" on the movie properties...but when I drag a song from iTunes, it ends VISIBLY with the last photo/clip. It doesn't end audibly...it still plays all the way to the end of the song. I just can't drag the frame to the right at all to see the full length and fade it where I'd like.
Speaking of fading...I've grabbed the little dot and moved it to the left as I saw in some instructional videos...but it's not actually having an impact on the volume. I even tried adding a blank title to lenghten the song (which it does) and then splitting the audio to fade...but it won't fade!
What am I doing wrong?

I'm sure Hangtime's FAQ tip would work to export an exactly defined segment, but have you tried simply moving the end of song marker in the ruler on the top to where you want the song to end? And has that not worked?

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Problem Editing Song Info

There are some random numbers in the lyrics section of an entire album i have in iTunes. I can erase the numbers and click next to do the same for the other songs, but when i return to the song info, the same numbers are back! I can replace the numbers with the lyrics for the song, but the numbers still show up on my iPod instead of the lyrics. How can I get rid of the numbers so that I can put the lyrics in that section and have the lyrics show up on my iPod instead of the numbers?

gonaners16, i guess this coud be something completely different. I have similar weired problems with my latest iTunes since a while also influencing the lyrics i have and see in iTunes in relation to what i have on the iPod.
1 modifications on iTunes lyrics do not appear on my iPod
2 if i remove the lyrics inside iTunes, old, often unformatted text shows up (this could be the text of Your old numbers). So it seems that i'm not able to remove this old text in iTunes at all.
The oly thng i could do is to reedit (or copy new text over the old). Seems to work fine in iTunes itself. But, it only seems. Synchronized to the iPod this does totally no effect to the lyrics on the iPod screen.
3 it has nothing to do with read/write permissions so far. But
4 it has to do whether You are using "MP3" fileformat or the original AAC-coded Apple format "M4A".
For whatever reasons (I do not know so far) iTunes modifies (i would rather call it "infect") MP3 files containing lyrics).
5 Approach for a solution: Editing of infected files ? No way. ==> Convert them to "M4A" using the onboard-iTunes coverter to AAC-version. And You are out of problems.
Interested on Your experiences ThomasK_DJ, South Germany

Why does iMovie for iPad shorten the background song length after adding a photo?

Why does iMovie for iPad shorten the background song length after adding a photo?
I created a project a few months ago, and iMovie worked as it always had. I would create a project, add a background song, then add photos to fill up the song.
When I created a project today, I added the background song (4m9s), then added a single photo, and the background song length was shortened to 6 seconds. I have never seen the app work this way. I know I can extend the photo to the length of the background song, but it used to be so much easier to add photos and sync them with the music as I desi
I'm using iPad2 with iMovie v1.4.1.
Thoughts?

When I've added photos to a project they are added to a default time to appear. Honestly I've never looked at the time but 6 seconds sounds close. I'm guessing that since you added the photo after you add the music that its thinking you want the two to match in time length so it tunicates the music. Try adding the photo first then add the music. Good luck!

Editting song information problems

I am unable to edit the names of songs, artists etc. I always did it before by clicking once on the song name to select it, waiting a second or so and clicking again to highlight just the name and cause the cursor to blink so I could erase the name and type a new one. That doesn't work now, so I went to iTunes help and tried rightclicking and choosing Get Info. When I click on the info tab, the information is there but is faded out so I am unable to click on it to select it and change it. Not sure if I pushed a button on my computer that caused this to happen but it's definitely a possibility. How can I edit song names?

Hello yukawai,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information, take a look at:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
Have a nice day,
Mario

Changing photo length in iMovie '08

I'm trying to make a presentation with photos set to music. I want one photo to play the entire length of one song, but whenever they only last four seconds. Whenever i try ot change the length it goes to 1 second. How do i make the photo last an entire song length

I would suggest you go to iMovie/Preferences and see how your preference is set for Time.
You can do hh:mm:ss:frames (which gives you most control. You can edit to the frame level)
Or you can select hh:mm:ss:tenths. A tenth of a second is about 3 frames so you have less control.
Once you know how you have it set, if you want to do five minutes for your photo, you would use 5:00:00 if you are using frames. You would use 5:00.0 if you are using tenths.
Note: There are 30 frames per second in the US. In Europe or a country that uses PAL, there are 25 frames per second.

Pasting column of song lengths turns into date...

Hi again,
One more problem, I am trying to paste a column of song running times (listed as mm:ss) but Numbers automatically changes the formatting to a date. So if the song is 4:14 in length, upon pasting into a column, the info changes to "4:14AM 6/17/08". I have tried pre-setting the cell formatting to anything other than "Date & Time" but upon copying the info, it always changes to a date and time.
I'm sure this has to do with the fact that the song length has a colon in it, but hopefully there is a workaround since I have a lot of songs to copy in.
Thanks a bunch,
Matt
Message was edited by: mabou

Alison Barrett wrote:
However, when I chose "Text" before I entered the times, it didn't convert them.
Even though this pastes the song lengths as text into the cells, you must be very careful not to change the cell format to automatic at any later time or Numbers will convert the cells' values to date-times. This is not just a format change -- the cell data is actually changed from a text string to a date-time. IOW, changing the format adds year, month number, & day-of-month number components to the cell value & converts the text to hour & minute components. Unless you use the "undo" feature, the change is irreversible -- changing the format back to text will not return the cell value to its former state. Instead, you are stuck with the full date & time data, formatted according to your system's localization settings.
Worse, because Numbers interprets what here represent minutes & seconds units as hours & minutes units when converting to a date-time value, and because songs may be over 24 minutes long, you can't just use the TIMEVALUE function as a first step in extracting the song length from what may now be a mixed list of data types.
It would much simpler if Numbers interpreted time-like text string entries as if they were in minute & second format unless two time separators appeared in the string, but as it is, it is probably best to use some intermediate application to format the copied text with a prepended "00" & the local time unit separator (in the U.S., the colon) if you want to use TIMEVALUE & associated date-time functions on the pasted song lengths. Alternately, you could use an intermediate application to format the text in some format that Numbers will not interpret as time-like, one that simplified parsing the text string into its individual time units as numbers from within Numbers. (Substituting spaces for the local time separators is one possibility.)
Pages may be useful for this but I have very little familiarity with it so I can't say if it is a good choice. For this & many other text formatting chores, I use Tex-Edit Plus. It is a modestly priced shareware application with extensive & powerful find & replace features that may prove very useful here.

How do i get my screen that show by columns (letf to right) 1) showed Albumn Name then under that showed Artist, next column listed songs on that albumn, next was time (song length), then Artist, Genre, Rating

I imported 2174 songs into my itunes from my husbands CD collection. Then for some reason i was checking out some of itune features. I clicked on FILE>DISPLAY DUPLICATES, Just to see what this feaure was. it changed my page to something that i did not like. I am trying to figure out how to get my itunes VIEW to what it was BEFORE i clicked on the DISPLAY DUPLICATES. My page before looked like: as follows (columns from LEFT TO RIGHT) showed:
COLUMN 1) showed ALBUMN NAME WITH ARTIST RIGHT UNDER THAT, then COLUMN 2) LISTED ALL THE SONGS ON THAT ALBUMN, COLUMN 3) SHOW TIME (SONG LENGTH), COLUMN 4) ARTIST 5) GENRE 6) RATING & 7) PLAYS (WHATEVER THAT MEANS?)
Now the screen: COLUMN 1) JUST LISTS THE ALBUMNS NAME (EACH ALBUMN ONCE, ALL THE WAY DOWN THE COLUMN. BESIDE EACH ALBUMN TITLE IS A (NUMBER...i.e. 13) THEN NEXT TO THAT IS 1 SONG (I AM ASSUMING THIS I HOW MANY TIMES THAT PARTICULAR SONG IS IN MY LIBARY), THEN TIME, ARTIST, GENRE, RATING & PLAYS...
I AM ASSUMING THAT SOMEHOW I HAVE TO TAKE OFF THE "DISPLAY DUPLICATES" BUT HAVE CLICKED ALL OVER TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS???? BUT CANT FIND OUT WHERE OR HOW???
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP???
THEN I THINK I BETTER (TAKE THE TOUR) BEFORE I START CLICKING ON THINGS THAT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS!
PLEASE HELP...I HAVE ANOTHER 400 OR SO CD'S TO IMPORT! SURE HOPE MY HUSBAND IPOD WILL HOLD ALL THESE SONGS SINCE I PURCHASED IT FOR HIM MANY YEARS AGO! OF COURSE I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO USE IT FOR A YEAR (SINCE STAPLES ATTEMPTED TO FIX MY OLD COMPUTER & LOST ALL THE MUSICE OUT OF MY COMPUTER) & IF I PLUGGED THE IPOD IN AGAIN, I WOULD HAVE LOST THE 1800 SONGS THAT WAS IN THE IPOD!!! NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS WITH STAPLES, MICROSOFT! RECEIVED NEW COMMPUTER & NOW NONE OF MY EXPENSIVE PROGRAMS WORK ON THIS STUPID WINDOWS7. OVER 3500.00 WORK OF EXPENSIVE SOFTWARE & NO ONE CAN TELL ME HOW TO GET MY PROGRAMS INSTALLED & WORKING...
JUST MY LUCK...LOOKED AT BACK OF IPOD & SURE ENOUGH IT ONLY HAS 30 GB!!! SO FAR I HAVE 16+ GB OF MUSIC IN ITUNES & HAVE 400 CD'S TO GO YET. AMAZING...NEW COMPUTER THAT WONT RUN MY PROGRAMS & NOW AN IPOD WITH NOT ENOUGH MEMORY& OF COURSE NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO PURCHASE ALL MY PROGRAMS AGAIN! LIKE MICROSOFT HAS TO MAKE OPERATIONS THAT WILL NOT RUN...PERFECTLY GOOD PROGRAMS LIKE PHOTOSOFT, DREAMWEAVER, WACOM, PUBLISHER, MICROSOFT PICTURE IT, PUBLISHER, POWERPOINT, ETC. ETC. FOR $199.00 THEY CAN TRY & HELP ME. WHO HAS THAT MUCH MONEY. THEY WONT EVEN HELP ME RE-INSTALL THEIR OWN PROGRAMS...I KNOW I WENT OFF THE ORIGINAL SUBJECT BUT AM SO FRUSTRATED THAT I WANT ANYONE TO LISTEN TO POSSIBLY GET SOMEONE TO HELP WITH THESE OTHER ISSUES, ALSO. STAPLES HAVE REALLY NOT HELPED AT ALL EITHER.. BUT THEY SURE CHARGE ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU KEEP PURCHASING MORE THINGS TO MAKE THE PROGRAMS WORK & THEY STILL DONT. THEY SURE CAN TELL ALOT OF LIES THOUGH! FOR NOW, CAN SOMEONE HELP ME GET MY ITUNES SCREEN BACK??? THANKS SO MUCH...THIS I AM SURE IS OPERATOR DEFISENCY!

The large text size makes your post almost impossible to read.
Excessive use of bold or capitals (also) makes posts difficult to read.
You can drag most of the column headings left or right, or right-click on the header to turn columns on or off.
Once you've used File > Display Duplicates or Shift > File > Display Exact Duplicates you can use File > Display All or the Display All button at the bottom of the list to restore the display.
For general advice on organising your library see this article on Grouping tracks into albums.
tt2

Why do I have problem importing iTunes purchases to iMovie 6?

I am quite frustrated. Because of all the problems I was having with iMovie 4, I recently upgraded my system to OS Tiger 10.4, my iMovie to version 6 and all other iLife components to version 8 (my processor doesn't support iMovie 8).
Now I have a whole batch of new problems. Every time I try to import a song I purchased through iTunes into a movie, a dialgue box tells me my computer is not "authorized" to play that song and prompts me to authorize my computer. After going through the process of authorization I am told my computer is now authorized, but the same thing happens when I try to import music again. I've tried the authorization proccess many times now with no success, although iTunes tells me I have 2 computers authorized (where did it come up wioth a second computer?).
What is this "authorization" bull crap? I never had this problem with my old OS and iLife 4 components. Rather than getting easier to use, everything seems to be getting more difficult with upgrades.
At "wits" end,
Richard Witt

HI Richard,
check out these two threads....you are not alone. Hopefully an update or fix will be coming soon.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1068565
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5079560#5079560

Problems with songs i downloaded with windows media player!!!!(zen tou

If I try to play songs i downloaded with windows media player My zen touch(20Gb) freezes and won't shut down:angry:. I have downloaded the latest firmware so that can't be the cause of the problem.
Can someone tell me what I can do about that.
btw I don't have problems with songs downloaded with creative's media source
Message Edited by Lt_chill on 07-08-2005 09:24 PM

If you mean you subscribed to iTunes Match, you have to import your music into your iTuens library in order to add it to iTunes Match. iTunes Match (and iCloud) only works with iOS devices and computers. It won't work with your iPod Classic; you'll have to sync that with iTunes in order to add your music.

Un able to edit song info in itunes 7

I am currently organizing and fixing some errors in my itunes library and i'm having extreme difficulty editing song info.
For example about half of my songs show up as blues in the genre category. So i've gone through and changed them to rock, electronic, etc. The info will change but when i double click on the track (play the track) it changes the info back to the previous settings. I went to itunes help which instructed me to uncheck "organize itunes library" in order to write the new info to the file. But this has not worked either. this is a very frustrating problem because GNDB has given some very wrong info about album names and and info and i can't reorganize it.
Another example is a CD by Blockhead the album title is Music by Cavelight. Only 3 tracks have the correct album title the others are Blockhead Music by Cavelight, for some reason the artist name is included in the album title. When i correct the tracks that have the improper album name they do change untill the song is double clicked on, and then it resets to the previous name.
Please help i am a DJ with lots of music and organization is KEY!
compac laptop Windows XP

Select one or more tracks, press CTRL-I to Get Info.
Are the tracks in question in .wav format? No tags there, so nothing for iTunes to read other than the filename. I have a script that get more data provided iTunes hasn't "helpfully" rearranged them.
tt2

Subtitle edits lost every time iMovie is closed

Hi,
I'm working on a movie with English subtitles. Every time I close iMovie, any editing I've done of the footage itself is saved, but the work I've done on the subtitles is lost!
I'm getting pretty frustrated, especially because I'll work with a native speaker for hours to get the translations/timing just right, and then 2/3 of the subtitles we've changed revert back to how they were before.
The subtitles never disappear completely; they just change back to wrong, earlier versions.
I've tried lots of silly little things, but nothing I do helps.
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HI
When iMovie behaves ill - I try something from this list.
*Not knowing the origin to Your problem - General approach when in trouble is as follows.*
• Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk if it is less than 10Gb should rather have 25Gb
• Delete iMovie pref file
iMovie pref file resides.
Mac Hard Disk (start-up HD)/Users/"Your account"/Library/Preferences
and is named. (one or more of these)
com.apple.iMovie.plist
com.apple.iMovie3.plist
com.apple.iMovie7.plist
com.apple.iMovie8.plist
com.apple.iMovie9.plist
and find
com.apple.iApps.plist
While iMovie is NOT RUNNING - move this/these file/s out on to desk-top.
Now restart iMovie.
• Hard disk is untidy. Repair Permissions, Repair Hard disk (Apple’s Disk Utilities application)
• Garageband-fix. Start it, Play a note and Close it. Re-try (Corrects an audio problem that hinders iMovie)
• Screen must be set to Million-colors
• Turn off Mac and disconnect Mains/Power for 20-30 minutes - will at least re-set FW-port
• Third party plug-ins that doesn't work OK (not relevant for iMovie’08 or 09 or 11)
• Problems in iPhoto Library can affect iMovie to crash on start-up. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.
This You do by
_ close iPhoto
_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}
_ now select all five options presented
_ WAIT a long long time
• iMovie updated ?
• QuickTime updated ?
• Mac OS version ?
• Program miss-match. iMovie 4 - will not work under Leopard
• Program miss-match. iMovie 5.0.2, up to Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK
• Program miss-match. iMovie 6.0.3 or 6.0.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.4.1 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’08 v. 7.1.4, Mac OS X.4.11 AND QuickTime 7.5.5 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
• Program miss-match. iMovie’09 v. 8.0.6, Mac OS X.5.8 AND QuickTime 7.6.4 - is OK (will work under Leopard and Snow-Leopard)
From LKN 1935. (in this case = iMovie HD (5), I tried it all, but nothing worked.
Your answer (above) has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that
there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled
iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos)
to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before.
Lennart Thelander
I run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac.
Yours Bengt W

Issue when editing songs in "Get Info"

Hi there!
I've been having this issue for quite a while now. At first I was able to deal with it, but now it's getting pretty annoying.
My issue is the two options to go to the next song or previous song have dissappeared when I'm editing songs in the get info tab. I have made sure that I am editing songs in an album, but the problem is still happening.
The red circle is where the buttons usually are. I'm not sure if iTunes has taken these options away with the newer updates, or if I clicked something by mistake. If someone else had this problem and figured out how to fix it, it would be great if you could share how with me!
Thanks,
melongeee

The buttons should be there. As a workaround do Alt+P and Alt+N still perform the Previous and Next functions?
For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
tt2

Changing the logic song length

it seems i've moved the white line box at the top of the arrange / bar listing as far right as it wants to go - i think it's around 2137 bars
is there any way of making it go further to the right?
changing a song length setting maybe?
thanks
dual g4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Once again i have solved my own problem, just bring the tempo of the song down to extend the song length
thanks to me and everyone that spent there time on this thread
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Editing Song Info

I'm trying to edit song information in itunes, I right click on the song and it brings up the dialog box. When I click on the "Info" tab the fields are filled in, but I cannot edit them as they are sort of grayed-out. Does anyone know how to fix this so I can once again edit song information?
Thanks!

fixed it lol, turns out that, even though i'd set the permissions on the file to let me read/write it, i forgot to set the permissions of the folder as thus ^_^;;;
EDIT:
[quote]Are you talking about editing the name of the song? This is the problem that I have had ever since iTunes 6.0 Does Apple read these comments? [/quote]
[quote]I recently upgraded (if that is the term) to iTunes 6.0.5. I just noticed that when I play certain songs the song name changes. The same thing happens if I choose Get Info from the File menu (or use. the equivalent key combination). I can change it back in the Get Info dialog, but the change does not "stick." The next time, the name changes again.
As far as the Summary tab of the Get Info window is concerned, these files (so far) are all QuickTime Movie files. (A few that I tried are holdovers from when I was running under OS 8.6, and the creator is not QuickTime.) I played one of them using QuickTime 7.1.1, and the song title QuickTime displays is the same one that iTunes "prefers" (rather than the one I prefer).
I did not have this problem wiith earlier versions of iTunes. It is very unpleasant having the name suddenly change to something I do not recognize. I think I should be able to decide what I want a song to be called. If I want to refer to Yankee Doodle as Dixie, why shouldn't I be able to?
I would like to report this to Apple as a bug, but I can't find out how to do that. Can anyone tell me how? I notice that another poster mentions having problems with names. Has anyone seen the same behavior I am reporting? [/quote]
Lock the actual song file. Go to the song file in the iTunes folder, go to file>get info, tick the box that sais "Lock" or something like that.
Enjoy ^_^ :P
EDIT: These forums need BBCode

Cant edit song info

Im having trouble editing my song info. A problem i haven't had in the past. I just got a new computer today, but all of my media is on my external hard drive. On my old pc, i had no troubles editing song info off of these files. and now it seems to not be working. Every time i hit "get info" everything comes up grayed out. Ive checked the properties on the hard drive and its listed as "read only" when i uncheck it it applies all the attributes and turns the read only off. But for some reason it doesn't keep. I cant get read only to stay off. So unfortunately i am unable to edit any of my song info. Has anyone out there had this problem? If so any suggestions?
Compaq Other OS God damnit i hate vista...

Problem Solved:
#1) after you install iTunes and reboot as it tells you to you must start up the program then log out of the program
#2) reboot 1 more time (this is redundant but you must do it to get your equalizer working and the ability to edit your song information).
Everything is working correctly now.

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