Weird Sound in iMovie

When i edit/save a movie i see a red line that makes a wierd chirping sound. How do I get rid of it?

Hi malagoli:
Welcome to discussions!
I think the first thing I would try is deleting the imovie preference file.
Locate a file named com.apple.imovie.plist and get rid of it. Then empty the trash, run a permissions repair with disk utility and restart. The files you need to delete are found in:
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.imovie.plist
I think I would do the same for the iDVD preference files, too.
Sue

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Good evening ! recently, i noticed that my macbook pro make a weird sound when i open the screen, it's like there is something keeping the screen from moving correctly.the little noise comes exactly from the left side of the axis.please advice me what to do
(i live in morocco and i need to know where i should take ma macbook to get it fixed and if the warranty take this problem in charge)
thank you in advance
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You should take it to an Apple store or an AASP (Authorized Apple Service Provider) Carefully inspect the hinge joint and make sure there is no debris that you can see, you can try carefully sliding some sticky tape thru the joint to clear any loose stuff out. But this sounds like there might be more going on here, and the hinge is something that you do not want to fool with.

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Hi everyone,
i've made several screen recordings and wanted to edit them with the newest version of iMovie. The video clips are all having sound while playing them with QuickTimePlayer and VLC Media Player, but as I imported them with iMovie, the sound in the video was lost. Can you help me?
I'm looking forward to your suggestions.
Greetings from Germany.

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

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i have an early 2011 model, it was running soo fine until now.
its making a weird sound, to describe, it sounds like a small *trrr* at normal state, and at high, intense states, (playing games..) it turns into a loud *trrrrrr*, but, if i hit it gently over the keyboard, it goes away, then comes back.
please, i dont have an apple retail store in my country, i need help from here, help me.

first thing to do is to buy a new hard drive and an external drive before it fails so you won't lose your files.
once you've done that, put the new hard drive in the external drive and open disk utility.
format/erase your new hard drive as MAC OS EXTENDED Journaled.
After that has been done, open carbon copy (if you don't have it, you can download it for free).
Once carbon copy is open, click on clone your hard drive. Source drive is what you're using now and your target drive is your new hard drive.
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MPEGs with sound in iMovie

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
Sue

Thanks for the reply to my question regarding sound in iMovie and sending me the online links. however the online links are impossible to play as they upload too slowly with the result that the playing keeps stopping waiting for the content to catch up

Thanks for your reply to my question regarding sound in iMovie. However I cannot follow the links you sent as they upload too slowly and therefore the instructional movie keeps stopping waiting for the content toload. Surely theremust be a solution for this??
Thanks in advance
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Please continue posting in your original thread.
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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.
Thanks.
Pete
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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.
John

No sound in imovie using mpeg videos. HELP!

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
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No sound in iMovie 5

After upgrading to Quicktime 7.1.1 I've lost sound in iMovie 5.
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.
Strangely this problem doesn't exist on my wifes eMac running OS 10.4.7 and the Quicktime 7.1.1 upgrade. Sound in iMovie 5 works perfectly.
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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

I used iMovie and iDVD to create a DVD. The DVD has an intro movie (that plays when the DVD is inserted), menus with motion and sound, a main feature with chapters, and a "bonus" short movie clip.
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.
I have iDVD 6.0.1 and iMovie 6.0.1
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Welcome Ricky Brigante
Not exactly sure what the issue is here on why it failed to burn the audio as well but did you look thru the iDVD help menu first?
Here's the info I found and I hope it's helpful:
Preparing QuickTime movies to work with iDVD
If your video-editing application can export to QuickTime, you can create movies that you can add to your iDVD project. iDVD supports most video or image files supported by QuickTime.
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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