Title/transition-related audio anomalies

I have just started using iMovie 6 after upgrading from iMovie 5 and I have immediately noticed some weird audio behavior.
-- After applying a simple Subtitle I notice an abrupt volume decrease when the title first appears, and then a reversion back up to normal levels once the title disappears. There also seems to be an slight audio "click" at the beginning and end of the Subtitle sequence. It's almost like the audio "ducking" that the new Garageband does - but very annoying here with my titling.
-- After applying a Fade-in to the very beginning of the movie, there is also an audio click at the very end of the transition.
I've even gone back to scratch and tried the above on a newly-imported clip - same problem occurs.
IM6 has so many neat new features that I thought I would try using it to do this simple project instead of Final Cut Express, but this audio glitch is a showstopper.
PowerMac Quad G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 2.5 GB RAM

I've tried to reproduce the two audio problems here with no luck.
The lowering of the audio volume sounds like a bug that existed in iMovie 4. The volume of a title was affected by the volume slider setting in iMovie as the title was rendered. If the volume of the slider was low while the title was rendered, the clip forever had that volume. I can't make that happen in iMovie 6, however.
Sometimes these problems are just playback issues in iMovie, where the underlying video is okay. You might try playing the Timeline Movie.mov (it's inside the project package) in QuickTime Player. To get to the movie, Control-click on the project icon and choose "Show Package Contents" from the popUp menu. Double-click on the "Timeline Movie.mov" inside the Cache folder. If that movie plays okay, the underlying audio is okay.
You might also try examining the audio level of the title clip. Select the clip, then choose View > Show Clip Volume Levels. If the displayed volume isn't the same as the clip before and after it, you may be able to adjust its volume.
Another workaround may be to extract the audio of the clip before adding the title. Extracting audio copies the audio of the clip to one of the audio tracks, then mutes the audio of the clip. (To restore the audio, just re-set its audio level to what it was.) Since the audio is no longer part of the clip, it shouldn't be affected by adding a title.
If there's anything unusual about the imported video -- that it was shot at LP speed instead of SP -- perhaps that is a contributing factor.
Very strange.
Karl

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