Powered Mic no go in iMovie HD

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Powered Mic no go in iMovie HD

I picked up a powered mic for my iMac. I tested it in Imovie 08, worked great, I like the sound quality. I tried to do a voice over in iMovie HD and the mic was very weak and sounded terrible. I have tried setting the input volume to different levels but to no avail. I can use the built in mic to do my project, but would like to be able to use this mike in iMovie HD as well as iMovie 08. Any thoughts about what might be the issue with iMovie HD and this mic?

iMac 2.0 GHz 3 and a MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.5), My Book Essential 500GB, My Book Studio 500GB Sony HDR-SR11

Posted on Oct 31, 2008 7:29 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 2, 2008 7:37 PM in response to Michigan One Fly

In the way of an update the mic is now working for both iMovie programs. I am not sure why?
I gave it another try the next day and it worked fine. I hate when that happens.

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Answer 2

Nov 2, 2008 10:42 PM in response to Michigan One Fly

Plug not pushed in? ..Mic not switched on? ..Battery not making contact? ..Wrong setting in System Prefs>Sound? ..Wrong day of the week? ..Got out wrong side of bed? ..Moon not in Scorpio?

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Answer 3

Nov 9, 2008 10:12 PM in response to David Babsky

+..Moon not in Scorpio?+

That might have been IT! Then, the moon must have moved!

My lovely Intel iMac gave up and would not restart after I requested it do so....it just shut itself off, and would not come on. I unplugged everything and prepared to cart it off to a great local place, We-Fix-Macs. (Love living so close to Silicon Valley 😀 ). Just before leaving, I carefully put it on my desk chair and went into another room. Heard a funny bumping noise, found lovely iMac on the floor. Seemed ok, no visible marks of damage. Went on to WFM and, naturally, iMac burst into action the instant that they plugged it in and pushed its power button! No charge for proving me wrong, so iMac and I returned home, got reconnected and now it has been working great. Even my three external drives are happy and are not getting overheated, as they used to do.
I was stumped for an explanation, and now I think the moon's position must have been the reason!
Thanks, and wishes for a great week for you and yours.

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Answer 4

Nov 10, 2008 6:02 AM in response to Beverly Maneatis

Thanks! Having a great week (..thank you!..) ..except that we just queued for an hour to see an Emil Nolde exhibition, and - of course - I don't really like the chap ..or rather his paintings. Too many frenetic splodges of vivid (..but to me, many rather indescribable or undifferentiated..) colours. I like his black-and-white lithographs and wood-cuts, but most of the paintings were beyond me.

However, there were some b&w 1930s films mixed in amongst the paintings, and those were the highlights, for me.

I'm not too good with static pictures, but give me something which moves, and I'm moved! (..It's interesting that I turned much of that "pretend 1950s newsreel" video, which I mentioned the other week, into black-and-white, I just thought. I'm so much more captivated by contrast, texture and light-&-shade than by simply colour..)

..And now, back to iMovie..

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