[MacDV] Re: Extracting Audio from iMovie

[Doug Mitchell]

If you use a third party program like Amadeus or in my case Sound 
Studio you could open two successive files and paste one onto the end 
of the other.

Doug
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 06:26  PM, Deirdre Saoirse Moen 
wrote:

> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 02:25 PM, Steve Robertson wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 04:15  PM, Erica Sadun wrote:
>>
>>> It exports as an AIFF (at least I think so).
>>> Most Mac sound editors will be able to play it.
>>> In fact, iTunes should play it if you "Add to
>>> Library" instead of "Import" the sound.
>>>
>> To wrap this subject up, I have successfully burned my audio only CD, 
>> and the simplest suggestion did the trick. When you "extract audio" 
>> from an iMovie clip, it is indeed an AIFF as Erica says (but using 
>> "Get Info" doesn't tell you this) and you can get it into iTunes by 
>> simply dragging the voice clip from your Media folder in your iMovie 
>> project to the Library window in iTunes. It retains the AIFF format 
>> in iTunes and makes a nice audio CD. I'm sure the methods involving 
>> export to Quicktime will work also, but it turns out this is not 
>> necessary in this situation.
>
> OK, I'm gonna unwrap this subject up because I just tried it (with 
> iMovie3) and the frustrating thing is that all my audio was extracted 
> into *separate* files.
>
> Now, in the case I tested it in, it was imported from Dazzle, so 
> naturally every 9-minutes-ish, there's a new clip. Is there any easy 
> way of making this one honking huge audio file rather than retaining 
> the arcane clip structure I didn't want in the first place?
>
> Other than the method I'd been using before, which is QuickTime Pro.
> -- 
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