[MacDV] More FREE Sounds For iMovie 3

[Thubten Kunga]

Dear Gordon.
Thanks for the tip that Hollywood Edge has 98 FREE sound effects on 
their site. Everyone know to hold down the option key when you click on 
them to download instead of play right?

Here's the direct to download page URL:

http://www.hollywoodedge.com/the_acb/webpage.cfm?&DID=9&WebPage_ID=16

What a gold mine of free sounds.

k

On Sunday, February 2, 2003, at 10:24  AM, Gordon B. Alley wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 20:50:34 -0800, David <themixguy at mac.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 05:44 PM, Macintosh Digital Video
>> List wrote:
>>
>>>  You know, you could add them to your home folder for direct access
>>  > from iMovie, right?
>>>  Go to your home folder-library-iMovie.  There should already be a
>>>  plug-ins folder there assuming you downloaded the iMovie Plugin 
>>> Pack.  You just make another folder entitled Sound Effects and put 
>>> the sound
>>>  files in there.  The next time you open iMovie, they should be 
>>> there.
>>
>> Tried that and it still didn't work. I was expecting the new "Sound
>> Effects" folder to show up in the pop-up list, along with the 
>> Skywalker
>> Sounds and the iTunes Library. What am I doing wrong? Tried it in my
>> administrator Library>iMovie>Plug-ins folder to no avail. Also tried
>> the root Library>iMoive>Plug-ins folder. Any help here?
>
> Yesterday I added two folders of Hollywood Edge sound effects files 
> (one contains the files from the Apple site, the other free files from 
> the HE site) to my <~/Library/iMovie/Sound Effects> folder (not 
> Plug-ins). I was a little concerned that this wouldn't work, because 
> these sound files are all .mp3, but the sound effects already in that 
> folder were all .aif files.
>
> However, when I started iMovie 3 and checked the sound effects panel, 
> those new folders appeared there in bold, with all the files under 
> them, and they played correctly.
>
> As a side note, if you place folders in the Sound Effects folder, be 
> sure their names are 32 characters or less. Initially one of my 
> folders had a longer name, and iMovie displayed it truncated (with one 
> of those funky numbers at the end). Seems kinda odd that iMovie 
> doesn't support OS X long file names there (possibly just an 
> oversight).
>
> -- 
> Gordon Alley  <*>
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