Questions about iMovie 3 and extracted audio

[Gordon B. Alley]

I'm going to see if I can answer my own question before someone else does.  :-)

The Help file is incorrect about how to restore the muted sound in a 
clip from which the audio has been extracted. I believe that Help is 
describing the iMovie 2 method.

All you have to do in iMovie 3 is display the timeline, select the 
video clip, check the Edit Volume checkbox, and move the clip volume 
slider from 0% back to the tick mark that represents 100%. Voila!

--Gordon

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 16:17:56 -0600, "Gordon B. Alley" <galley at texas.net> wrote:
>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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Gordon Alley  <*>
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