[MacDV] iMovie Audio

[James Asherman]

On May 13, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> If you've extracted the audio can it be edited/cropped? I noticed if 
> you
> crop the clip the sound no longer synchs. Is this normal? What I have 
> is a
> speaker who was using a Powerpoint show and what I want to do is drop 
> his
> Powerpoint slides in at various times without affecting the audio and 
> then
> go back to him speaking. There's about 25 slides I have to do this for.
>
> Thanx
>
> Richard
>

Assuming that you have to work in iMovie (not optimum for this)
You should lay down a good portion.
Extract the audio without moving anything.
Then wherever you want to put in a slide, split the video at that point 
and trim both ways to make room for your slide,
Much easier in FCE/P
Jim