[MacDV] Re: Formac Studio and imovie 3

[Nelson Westmoreland]

I am having the same problem with audio using the Formac converter.  I 
was also able to correct it with the "Extract Audio" pull down although 
I didn't quite know what I had done.

Nelson
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 03:55 PM, Ric Perrott wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 03:33  PM, Len McGrandle wrote:
>
>> Is anyone else here using an A/D converter with imovie 3?
>>
>> I have been unable to capture both audio and video successfully with 
>> my Formac Studio and imovie 3.  The audio is a totally garbled 
>> sputtering noise while the video is fine, no jerking.  Playback of 
>> previously recorded projects from imovie 2 work, but some of them 
>> have some background static not evident with imovie 2.  I am running 
>> imovie 2 and 3 from the same hard drive, with imovie 2 moved to a 
>> different folder, all in OS 10.2.3.  I have tried many different 
>> sound settings, all with the same effect.
>>
>> I tried the alternative of importing a file into imovie 3 saved from 
>> the software video player which comes with the Formac.  This works 
>> fine, but importing such a file takes a very long time.
>>
>> imovie 2 did not give me any problems like this, so I guess I will 
>> just not use 3.
>>
>> Len
>
> Len,
>
> I use the Formac converter and am experiencing the same glitches as 
> you are. I sent feedback to Apple and I think you should too.
>
> The only workaround I've found is to place the garbled clip on the 
> timeline and choose "Extract Audio", then mute the audio that's tied 
> to the video's track by unchecking the box to the far right.
>
> when you playback now the audio should be ok. I know this isn't 
> optimal because you lose one of your audio bands but it's what I've 
> found.
>
> Also I suppose you could use Quicktime Pro to re-merge the video and 
> audio together, but for me that was too much work. I've gone back to 
> iMovie 2.1.2 for all editing and I import the finished product into 
> iMovie3 to skip the "export to Quicktime" step so that i can move 
> right to iDVD.
>
> Here's hoping that Apple ships a fix to this disaster of a program 
> soon!
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