Transitions and Titles

Everytime I add a transition or title to a clip, it messes up the sound for the amount of time the title or transition plays. I don't know what to do. Anybody know how to fix this? Thanks.

Hi F
Sound:
Before inserting the transition. Select both clips involved. Extract sound.
Now do the transition without messing up the sound.
Yours Bengt W

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Hi there,
Does anyone have a clue about the following:
When setting a theme you can choose to tick the box 'add transitions and titles'. According to the tutorial you should get the following options about the end of clips in your projects:
- Overlap ends and shorten clip
- Extend ends etc.
How come I do not have this option? I'm working in Imovie 8.0.6.
Any suggestions? I would like to use these options now and then...

This was an option in iMovie 08, but it was removed in iMovie 09.
The current behavior is that it overlaps ends and shortens the clip. This is the way you would want it to behave for video. After you painstakingly edit out Uncle Joe picking has nose at the wedding, you don't want a transition to put the nose-picking back into your movie. The overall length of the movie stays the same.
For photos, it was useful to have the option of extending or overlapping and shortening. But this is no longer an option as far as I know.

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Did you try logging in on a new account and opening the problem iMovie file in the new account? I wasn't certain from your post whether you did that. Can other trouble free movies be created/played in the old account now that you deleted preferences?
Also, did you do a permissions repair in additiion to deleting the .plist file? You didn't mention that in your list. You should do a permissions repair using the Disk Utility app on your Mac.
Have you added any 3rd party or Quicktime plug-ins lately? These sometimes can cause conflicts. If you have any, you could try moving them to a different folder to temporarily disable them, and see if that solves it.
Make sure that you have sufficient free disk space for iMovie to operate efficiently. 20GB to 25GB is oft recommended on this forum.
Make sure that your Quicktime is updated to current version.
Any new software installed lately that could be causing a conflict?
If the problems are occurring solely in the currrent project, and the diagnostic efforts that you have made don't solve it, then you probably should start over. This is a relatively short movie, so the effort is fairly minimal. Can save a lot of time in the long run. You might be able to clear out all of your titles and transitions and transfer your clips into a new iMovie project with all of the editing still intact. Always make a backup copy of your movie, first.

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Hi duff_golf - welcome to the forum!
Firstly, regarding your original post correction - for a short time after posting you can still edit your post. A small icon appears to the left of the other icons on the top right corner of your post. Click on this, edit your post, then click on Edit Message (I think it's called) in the bottom left corner of the Edit screen to republish your edited post.
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I upgraded to Maverick from Mountain Lion.
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rob2433 wrote:
I upgraded to Maverick from Mountain Lion.
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Premier Pro 1.5
Encore 1.5
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Everything went great, all transitions, stills and titles look good in the timeline. All looks good in the single file avi export from PP1.5 as played with windows media.
As soon as I import the avi into Encore 1.5 to author the DVD, a few transitions between stills and/or titles get scrambled. It happens on about 3 random transitions out of maybe 50 - 100 of them. Sometimes a transition effect (fade) is involved, sometimes there is no effect. An example is 2 stills or titles adjacent to each other with the same duration. After the import to Encore the durations get hosed and the second still or title flashes for less than a second.
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How to Edit Titles, Transitions, and Music in a Copy of an iMovie Project?

23 December 2009
Dear Mac Users:
Happy Holidays! I am writing to find out how to edit a copy of an iMovie project. A friend made an
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Cannot render audio fade and/or transition and/or title

I am at my wits end and ready to blow up the computer on this one.
I have about a dozen
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I scoured the forum looking for clues and hours later I have absolutely no idea what is going on. Here are my specs and what I have tried. I also attached a screen shot showing the 3 areas on my timeline that show different states of rendering (or non-rendering).
Computer specs: PreE8, Win7 64bit, intel i7, ATI card, 6 GB RAM, 400+GB free HD
DV-AVI clips, some with the In and Out points trimmed a few seconds.
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I added a Menu Marker to each title. They all appear on the menu as they should.
Background rendering is OFF.
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