Extracting Audio from iMovie

[Steve Robertson]

Y'all have probably discussed this before, but I couldn't find an 
answer in the archives.

Recently, I shot about 45 minutes of video, but it turned out that the 
audio was much more important than the accompanying talking head video. 
So I wanted to extract the audio from the iMovie clips and continue 
working with the audio only.

I would eventually like to burn some audio CDs containing this 45 
minutes of audio. With the software I have, it seems like the best path 
would be to convert the audio from each clip to an MP3, move the MP3s 
into the iTunes library, and then use iTunes to burn the audio CDs.

I found the instructions for "extracting audio" from an iMovie clip. 
but this creates a "document" that is not recognized by any other audio 
programs available to me. Do I need to export all the iMovie clips as a 
Quicktime movie, then use some other software (besides iMovie) to work 
with the audio? Is this something that's covered by Quicktime Pro?

This problem finally convinced me to pay the thirty bucks for Quicktime 
pro, so I may find my answer there. Just thought it wouldn't hurt to 
promote more discussion about the relationship between audio processing 
and iMovie.

Steve Robertson