Copy & paste audio

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Copy & paste audio

I would like to copy audio from my movie & paste it under clips in the same movie to fill in under still images without extracting the audio altogether.
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Posted on Apr 10, 2008 6:44 PM

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Apr 10, 2008 11:12 PM in response to bsl

Hi

I would
• set play head where the audio part starts and CUT [cmd T]
• then move to where it ends and CUT [cmd T]
• select the clip with the audio and extract audio

Now You got a copy of desired audio. The oroginal video/audio clip is only muted
so now You select this V/A-clip and increas it's audio to 100%.

• Then move the extracted audio clip and move it uder the desired video part.

Yours Bengt W

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Apr 11, 2008 12:42 PM in response to bsl

Just to add to Bengt's discussion, you can then click on the audio clip to highlight it, 'copy' and then place the playhead where you want the audio again, and 'paste,' repeating the 'paste' each time you move the playhead until you have all the audio pasted under all the stills.

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Apr 11, 2008 9:04 PM in response to bsl

Thanks to all for answering my question. Burl

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Apr 11, 2008 9:07 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby

Thank you very much for your help-Burl

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Apr 11, 2008 9:09 PM in response to Beverly Maneatis

Hi Beverly, thanks very much for taking the time to write. Burl Lane

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Apr 11, 2008 9:19 PM in response to bsl

Hi again from Burl. Perhaps you have some thoughts on another imovie/DVD issue. I have successfully produced many DVD projects from home movies. Of late some of the DVD's that play perfectly on my own DVD player will not do so on other machines. I used to have that problem when I used cheap paper stick-on lables, I use only expensive glossy Memorex lables now. I used wide screen format however the project runs just fine on my normal size TV screen. I put chapter markers in the project & people tell me they are unable to skip forward or backward whether they view the movie on a desk top or standard DVD player. Any thoughts? Burl

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Apr 11, 2008 9:30 PM in response to Bengt Wärleby

Hi Bengt, Burl Lane again-thanks again for taking the time to address my audio issue. I have produced many DVD projects from home movies with out problems of the DVD quiting before the movie is over. However, friends that have received some of my projects are telling me their DVD only plays a short section of the movie then freezes. they are unable to skip forward or backward with chapter markers. They are unable to view the movie on their DVD players or Desk Top or Lap Tops. The DVD is formated for wide screen but play perfectly on my normal square TV . Not all of the copies of a particular DVD have this problem. All are done in NTSC format. Any thoughts? Thanks, Burl Lane

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Apr 11, 2008 10:42 PM in response to bsl

Hello, Burl,
Absolutely do NOT use ANY stick-on labels at all! 😟 EVER!!!!! Even the 'expensive glossy' ones. They will damage the disk, resulting in unusable DVDs. If you like making labels yourself, get a printer that prints directly onto the DVD disks, using printable DVD-R disks.

Playback of DVDs is quite dependent on the player. Many set-top DVD players treat the DVDs differently. With commercial DVDs, this is not always a problem, probably related to how they are made. Commercial DVDs are pressed, not burned.
I have had no problems playing my burned DVDs on any of my Sony DVD players, but frequently my disks will not play correctly on our newer Toshiba DVD player. Often the Toshiba reads the audio tracks wrong and the sound is either muted or lost in parts of the movie. There is nothing wrong with the disk, it plays fine on other players.

However, you do need to be using very good media for burning, like Verbatim or Maxell, DVD-R disks, and you should be burning them at a slow burn speed, 4x or less. If you first create a disk image from your iDVD project, you can use Disk Utility for burning, and select a slower speed.

I hope you are not using Memorex disks for burning. They are known for being problematic.

Post back if you have more questions.
Meanwhile, burn more DVDs of your projects that are on plain DVD-R disks WITHOUT those stick-on labels!

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