[MacDV] Placing audio clips

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On Thu, March 3, 2005 6:22 pm, Donald C. Tully said:
> Fellow Listers - I am having trouble placing audio clips from ITunes or
> music CD's into my IMovie project. Most clips load fine but a couple seem
> to
> be downloading normaly  and then just stop.  I've had this trouble before
> and one of you suggested a very simple remedy. Since I'm not overly
> bright,
> I've forgotten the fix. Any help?  Thanks

>From an archive:

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Rev Dave - You're the best!  I simply changed the name of the file per your
suggestion and it worked.  These things are beyond me. Glad you were there
to help. Thanks again...Don

> From: revDAVE <coolcat at hostalive.com>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh."
> <macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:35:46 -0700
> To: "A place to discuss digital video on Macintosh."
> <macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Subject: Re: [MacDV] Placing an audio clip
>
> On 10/18/04 6:25 AM, "Donald C. Tully" <drdon at mwt.net> wrote:
>
>> Good morning Listers - I have been unable to insert a particuliar audio
clip
>> into my iMovie4 project.  I have placed several others from the same
source
>> successfully in the project.  This particuliar clip - a very important one
>> to the project - starts to import (from iTunes and from a CD) and then
just
>> stops.  I've also tried several different versions of the same clip
with no
>> success.  Just for the heck of it, I started a new project and tried to
>> import the clip into it; it worked fine.   Any suggestions on how to get
>> this clip to import?
>>
>> Thanks...Don/
>
>
> - have you checked that has the same parameters 44k - 48k - 16 bit
> resolution etc. as the other successful clips?
>
> - you might try simply changing the name
> -  you might try importing it into a third party sound application such as
> peak or Sound studio -  and maybe clipping off the edges or some kind of
> simple DSP processing - re saving it - and try importing it again.
> -  maybe try saving it in some different format and see if that works -
.aif
> .wav .mp3 .acc etc....
>
> - Maybe -  import it into the new project of Imovie -  then export it -
then
> try reimporting it into the other main project.
>
> I hope one of these ideas helps
> --
> Thanks - RevDave
> Lists at domains4days.com
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Rich