Re-Attaching Audio in iMovie 3

[Steve Robertson]

Here's a follow-up to my earlier question about extracting audio, 
Purely by coincidence, my very next project also required the "extract 
audio" command, but for a different reason. I had some old video of a 
singer/songwriter performing nine songs in a row. Sort of an in-studio 
concert. But apparently the audio recording level was set too low when 
this VHS tape was made, because I had to turn the volume up so high 
that I could also clearly hear the tape hiss.

I decided to import this video into iMovie and try to cure some of the 
audio problems before burning to DVD. I broke the video up into a 
separate clip for each song, extracted the audio from each clip (giving 
me nine AIFF voice clips) and used Amadeus to amplify and denoise the 
audio. Then I selected all the video clips and played them to verify 
that my audio changes were reflected in the IMovie. So far, so good.

Then I gathered some still photos of this performer to experiment with 
the ken burns effect. Problem! Inserting still photos pushed all the 
video down the timeline by 5 seconds per photo, but the extracted audio 
did not move with the video- thus making everything badly out of sync.

After searching for ways to re-anchor this extracted audio and finding 
none, my first thought is to start over and do all my video editing 
first- leaving the "extract audio" procedure till last. But it seems 
there should be other solutions. Is there something here I'm missing?

Steve Robertson