[MacDV] Re: Extracting Audio from iMovie

[Erica Sadun]

>... also, You'll need Quicktime Pro for this.

Actually, no you don't.

Select the clip and choose Advanced > Extract Audio
(Command-J). iMovie will extract your sound and place
it in your Media folder as a voice clip.

If you have too many individual clips, then
export the whole project, reimport into a new
iMovie project and then do the Extract Audio trick

-- E


>... just thought I'd give my two cents.
>
>filipp
>
>>Steve,
>>Export the whole file to QuickTime as Quicktime DV highest quality 
>>this will take real time or a bit longer depending on your Mac. 
>>Then open the resulting Quicktme DV file with Quicktime Player and 
>>then you can extract the Audio in any format that QuickTime 
>>supports. And work on the resulting file with any suitable audio 
>>software you have.
>>iMovie really has little or no support for working on its audio 
>>separately from the video. But once you have tweaked the sound 
>>outside, it will accept mp3 and AIFF sound back in.
>>Richard
>>On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 12:12  AM, Steve Robertson wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>>Steve Robertson
>>>
>>
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