Sound Blip is here to stay. Good job Final Cut Express HD won't help you!

Imovie 6HD is super but the sound blip on faded out music files is unforgivable. When you print (export) to a quicktime movie it puts all sorts of audio blips and volume changes onto the finished file that aren't there on playback in iMovie.
Luckilly I have final cut express HD.
Unlickilly It can't import any of my imovie project files.
It just keeps telling me that there are 'unknown files'.
So what am I to do? Can't work with the audio in imovie and can't import to final cut express HD. and yes I have the latest versions of all of these.
Please help me

It is apparently an issue when creating PAL files. There are posts discussing this and it is a well documented problem. There are a few round about moves you can do. Check the other posts for some of these. It seems that the best bet is to uninstall and reinstall Motion 4 or 5 until this big bug is fixed. I Have imported the iMotion file into Final Cut Pro by open file and exported it from there.
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http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/
and Final Cut Express here:
http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/tutorials/
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http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/applefinalcutpro
But those are advanced ones for people already familiar with FCP. The ones on Lynda.com are for beginners through experts. And there are books:
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Pro-Training-Final-Cut/dp/0321502655/ref=pdbbs_sr1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241043298&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Focal-Easy-Guide-Final-Cut/dp/0240810090/ref=pdbbs_sr4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241043298&sr=8-4
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http://www.amazon.com/Class-Demand-Complete-Training-Educational/dp/B000WGLAQU/r ef=sr116?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1241043298&sr=8-16
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Tom gave you some good advice - spend some time in the FCE Help file.
That said, what you do is toggle Clip Overlays > On . A thin pink line will appear across the middle of each of your audio clips. You can then add keyframes with the Pen tool and then use your mouse drag the levels up or down as you wish between any two keyframes.
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what im trying to say is, does Final Cut Express HD support surround sound??

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5.1 is pretty sophisticated stuff.
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Ripple Training has about 50 video tutorials which you can download free of charge;-
http://www.rippletraining.com/freetutorials_final_cutexpress.html
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