bug in audio adjustment?

Having a similar problem with "cutaway" video clips. Adjusting the audio of them seems to have no effect. I can detach the audio then delete it.

When you select a clip, the Inspector/Audio Adjustments will apply to the embedded audio in the video clip.

If you want to change the volume of the MP3 track, select the MP3 track so that there is a yellow border around it. Then use the audio adjustments window to set the volume.

Tried this and no luck. The audio remains even when selecting "Mute Clip." This is happening for me with "Cutaway" video. The primary clip adjustments work fine.

I'm having a similar problem. I've but a bunch of clips together and I want to mute the original clip volume and use a mp3 for sound. All my clips are muted but I get patchy audio here and there. Pretty frustrating at this point.

The definition of cutaway video is to have the original audio playing while superimposing a different image. It does not make sense to be adjusting the volume of the inserted video in a cutaway.

Never mind my previous comment. You can mix and match the volumes in cutaway clips just like you can everywhere else.

I'm having a problem with audio too.. I may be saying essentially the same thing you guys are.

Problem didn't show up until I exported to MobileMe. Doing a DVD export to see if it's there too:

I have a lot of video clips that I have taken the audio down to zero. I have music playing underneath and don't need the audio.

Plays back fine in iMovie '09, but when I exported to MobileMe. The clips aren't honoring their volume setting anymore, especially in the 2-3 seconds leading up to when they are set to appear. I'm going to try going back through and extracting the audio and deleting, but this is a bug that needs some attention from Apple...

Just out of curiosity, what source are you editing with?

Came directly off a Canon SD1100 IS as Movie: AVI (Image: Motion JPEG; Audio: WAVE (Monaural)

I was shocked, but the image quality was way better than my DV based camera.

Have you tried to simply zero the volume after selecting the clip?
You really don't need to extract and delete the audio track to do so.
Just select the clip and double click it. This will open the Inspector, click the Audio tab and set the Volume to zero.

That's actually how I originally had it. I went back and extracted and deleted to see if that would fix it. Unfortunately, it didn't.

Based on what I'm seeing, the audio seems to be in transitions. Perhaps iMovie '09 isn't re-rendering the transitions to get rid of the audio? I tend to drop clips in, set transitions and then worry about audio. Maybe if I change the transitions to something else and change them back, it might clear it.

What transitions are you using?
Also, do you have a link on your MobileMe gallery where I can hear your issue?

http://gallery.mac.com/pdsmemphis#100291

Start at 03:20
Listen through 03:45

There are more throughout, but that's where it starts.

All of those video clips originally had audio zeroed, and now have the audio deleted.

The only sound is supposed to be from the music. Looking back at the way it's working, it doesn't look like it could be the transitions. It seems to be phantom audio from a clip that is not currently supposed to be on screen. Like it's cueing up a clip in prep for it to come on screen 2-3 seconds before it hits. So I hear audio from an upcoming clip before I see that clip if that makes sense.

Looking back at that, even though it republished and took a few hours, I'm not sure that I trust that it's the newer version. I removed some audio from a clip that still has audio online (and not the phantom audio problem we're tracking down.) I'm probably going to delete that one out of my gallery and republish tonight.

New suspicion... testing now with an export (this problem does not show up inside of iMovie, only in exported files).

I think the problem is the template transitions having leftover renders. I've deleted the transition and am exporting to test that out.

I have encountered another problem with the template titling. You can't have a template title on a clip and also have a transition on it. The transition does not play.