Questions about iMovie 3 and extracted audio

[Gordon B. Alley]

Today I wanted to play around with using Amadeus II to try to filter 
some background sound from an iMovie 3 clip in a project I've been 
working on.

I extracted the audio from the clip, but couldn't find any obvious 
way to export the audio from iMovie, other than just us the Finder to 
copy the "Voice 1" file I found in the project's media folder. If 
there were lots of audio clips, it might be hard to find the right 
one. Is there any elegant way of exporting audio for external 
processing? I presume it can be brought back in using the 
File->Import... command.

After this experiment, I wanted to return to using the audio that was 
(supposedly) still in the video clip, and get rid of the extracted 
audio clip. According to the iMovie 3 Help, and I quote, "You can 
turn the sound back on in that video clip's Clip Info window." Well, 
I opened the Clip Info window for the clip, and there is nothing in 
there about un-muting the clip's original audio (luckily, I haven't 
tossed the extracted clip yet). Am I missing something here? Could it 
have anything to do with the fact that the clip in question has been 
rendered with an effect (Brightness)? I know it still contains the 
audio, because I've opened the clip in QuickTime Player, and it plays 
fine.

Thanks.

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