Removing sound on iMovie

I've had my Macbook Pro for a while now and i paticulary enjoy using iMovie. The issue is that when i make my movie and put the music on to match tge video clips, i can steal hear the sound of the video clips in the background of the music. I have tried to mute the clips but the problem still lies. Is there anything that i can do?
Thanks.

Are you using iMovie 09 (Version 8.06)?
If so, are you using any speed changes? Fast or slow motion? If so, there is a bug when you use a custom speed change like 58% or 139% that will cause random audio artifacts.
The fix is to change all speed changes within your project to one of the pre-sets such as 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 200%, 400%, ETC.

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WHy do they have two systems running in parallel?
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Which I could help. Can't.
Can anyone tell me which is supposed to be better - i-movie 9 or i-movie HD?
Yes. iMovie 1 to HD6 and iMovie'08 & 09 are two totally different products - not related
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iMovie'08 & 09 are Wrongly named - so that they most often are misstaken to be related.
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and are aimed for quick editing and web publishing. (DVDs will not be as good as they can)
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Hey there. You might have been bitten by the
installer permissions problem. Open Disk Utility and
repair your permissions. There is also a QuickTime
7.1.2 installer available.
Finally, try forcing prebinding to run. Open a
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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
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No Sound in iMovie Import

Hello everyone:
I am trying to import a movie from my Sony DSC W100 camera.
The movie downloads to iMovie great, but I can't get any sound. I've checked the various volume controls on the camera, computer, and iMovie and everything seems to be where it should be. (And when I play the movie on my camera, there is sound.) But not so much as a peep of sound on iMovie.
I am using the USB connection - not a firewire connection (which I don't have for this camera).
My computer is an iMac with OS 10.4.9. I'm using iMovie 3.0.3.
Any guidance or suggestions would be much appreciated.
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Welcome to the forums.
Looking quicking at some posted specs, your camera records in MPEG VX format (a form of mpeg1 or mpeg2?), which means that iMovie is converting that video format (MPEG) into a form it understands (DV Stream). If you open one of the iMovie clips using Quicktime, use the Movie Properties command to see if it has an audio track.
If there's no audio track, probably the video was muxed (audio and video mixed together). Typical recommendation is to use MPEG Streamclip to do the conversion from MPEG to DV Stream, but often you'll also need (to buy) Apple's MPEG plugin for Quicktime.
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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.
Im hoping that someone here and point me in the right direction.
Thank you.

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.

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Previously recorded movies have lost their sound together with any new recordings I make. Volume levels are still shown in the timeline but no sound is produced. All other applications appear to be working normally (iTunes, GarageBand, Audacity etc.).
To restore sound in iMovie I've had to reinstall Tiger together with updates to the current OS 10.4.7 and then install Quicktime 7.0.4.
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Hey there. You might have been bitten by the
installer permissions problem. Open Disk Utility and
repair your permissions. There is also a QuickTime
7.1.2 installer available.
Finally, try forcing prebinding to run. Open a
Terminal window, and type the following:
sudo update_prebinding -root / -force
This is useful for repairing system slow-downs, but I
have also found that this will fix situations in
which I have done updates, and the applications which
depend upon modules modified in the update don't "get
it" so far as the new updated modules.
Thanks for your reply.
I've tried repairing permissions, I've now downloaded and installed QuickTime 7.1.2 and have tried forcing prebinding all to no avail!
There is still no sound in iMovie but iTunes etc. work ok.
If there's no solution forthcoming I'll be forced to reinstall Tiger to enable me to go back to QuickTime 7.0.4

IDVD burn has no sound in iMovie timeline video only

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The intro movie, the bonus movie, and the menu movie all were dropped onto iDVD from individual .mov files. They all work fine in the disk image that I exported.
However, the main feature with chapters, which is an edited project that resides in iMovie's timeline, does not have any sound in the final exported disk image. Its sound in iMovie is contained in the 2nd audio-only track (the only one that is checked in iMovie) and it plays fine in the iDVD project.
Why is the sound missing in the exported DVD disk image, ONLY in the main feature when it works fine in the iDVD project?
It took 4+ hours to export the disk image... now it appears that time was wasted. I want to be sure that it exports correctly next time.
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Welcome Ricky Brigante
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Here's the info I found and I hope it's helpful:
Preparing QuickTime movies to work with iDVD
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QuickTime movies smaller than the standard DVD size of 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL) are scaled to fit the DVD window, which may decrease the image quality.
For best results, in the QuickTime export settings of your video-editing application, choose NTSC-DV with a frame rate of 29.97 or PAL-DV with a frame rate of 25. Choose No Compression for audio and set the sample rate to 48 kHz.
Not all QuickTime formats can be added to your iDVD project. For example, MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files, QuickTime VR movies, and movies with sprite or Flash tracks cannot be added.
Note: If you drag a QuickTime movie file to an audio well in iDVD, iDVD uses the first audio track in the file and none of the video.
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I have been trying to crack this problem for weeks now and I must figure it out tonight because soon my project will be due.
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I repeat, all of the sound is in place. I just can't hear it. You can see the waveforms or whatever of each sound clip or song. The boxes are checked to the right of the audio lines. The volume is turned up.
I thought maybe there was a problem with them anyway, for some reason, so I trashed the first song and them imported a new one from iTunes and it imported just fine, showed up on the timeline, and there's still no sound!
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fortunately i don't need this answered, eventually figured it out my self, just thought it would be helpful to share the solution to this problem as I'm sure others have experienced it. The problem makes more sense when explained chronologically.
My wife has a Casio digital camera, and had recorded many Movies on it, they all sat in iPhoto all worked fine until i upgraded to Quicktime 7.5, then the audio disappeared. i tried in vain to fix (reinstalled QT 7.5, removed plugins, reinstalled etc.), but to no avail, so i left it - this was all under Tiger, i decided I'd upgrade to Leopard and see if the problem went away.
Before upgrading to Leopard i got iLife 08, when i first launched iMovie08 it pulled in all the movies from iPhoto, but they too had no sound.
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- re-launch iPhoto, whilst holding down shift, option + command keys
- checked 'rebuild the iphoto library database' only, once done, closed iphoto
- re-launched imovie, this forced it to re-import all the movies from iphoto
... and then the sound was back.
FYI
this worked when using...
OS 10.5.4
QT 7.5
iMovie 7.1.4
iPhoto 7.1.4
jb

Hi MGW,
I do not no how things are handled when using HDV and technical documentation is hard to find on this topic of how photo are handled using HDV but in iMovie and most non HDV video editing software the picture is always 72ppi regardless of what is was/is on the outside and the images that appear the worst are the ones with less.
On a side note I don't use iPhoto because of all the superfluous files and thumbnails it creates and it disorganises my photos according to criteria that is completely irrelevant to me. I have had these thumbnails pop up in the browser in the past primarily with any photos that existed in the library prior to any updates. With what I have been working on as of late can understand how and why this could happen.
If you scroll through the media browser dose it appear that the library you are working with duplicates itself somewhere along the line or do you see double images side by side?
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