Volume Settings Have No Effect

Hey Guys~
Wondering if anyone else has this issue and if so, have you found a work around?
When I make changes to the volume of a clip on the timeline, that change does not take effect. The setting stays put, but is not actually applied to the clip. I want to mute a clip, but even with the volume set to 0%, the volume remains the same.
Any ideas? Everything else seems to be working ok.
Update:
So I deleted plist for iMovie and the changes I made took effect, but any additional audio changes I made did not take effect.
Message was edited by: mjcollinge76

Thanks for the inquiry and feed-back. Tech support advised me to unlock the preference dialog box when I was logged in as the administrator. We changed the volume setting to mid-way on the scale and rebooted but the volume preferences reset to minimum volume with Mute ticked. He also had me try what I assume is a reset of defaults on boot-up. I held the Command/Option/P keys and operated the power on switch, then immediately held down the R key which put the computer through a different start up sequence. Once again the volume was muted and indicated minimum when I checked. No luck either when we created a New User account and set the volume control to mid-way as previously mentioned. Other approaches he suggested were too involved for me to accurately relate but involved deletion of some files associated with the sound system. No joy which is why I have sought other advice. Thanks anyway for your interest!

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