[MacDV] Re: Extracting Audio from iMovie

[Daniel Beck]

On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 04:39 AM, Steve Robertson wrote:

> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 11:43  AM, Erica Sadun wrote:
>
>>> ... 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.

> This question has come full circle now ;-) I followed the above 
> instructions before I asked the original question, and found the voice 
> clip in the media folder for this project. The problem was that I 
> couldn't do anything with this voice clip outside of iMovie. iTunes, 
> for example, would not play it. Seems like it would be relatively easy 
> for iMovie to add the ability to export "audio only" in the most 
> common formats.

I haven't followed this thread closely, but have you tried opening an 
extracted audio file with Amadeus II? You can edit the file and then 
save it. Then there's no need to reimport it back into iMovie since it 
remains the same file, only edited.

Daniel

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