Problems turning audio in clip completely down

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Problems turning audio in clip completely down

I am having problems turning the audio within some of my clips totally off. It is especially a problem when there are transitions between clips. The level is at the bottom - but when I play the movie sequence back I hear small bits of audio from within the clip at the start of the clip and at the finish and whereever there is a transition. I've tried over and over again to drag the level to the bottom - but nothing seems to fix the problem.

Posted on Nov 1, 2005 3:16 PM

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Answer 1

catspaw

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Nov 1, 2005 3:34 PM in response to Alissa Collins

Alissa - Welcome to the Forum!
As well as dropping the volume on the clips, you will probably also have to lower the volume of the transition. In Timeline view, use the zoom slider until you can see a larger view of the transition, Show Volume Levels, and you will probably see that the volume level is still high within the transition.

There is actually a bug, that can cause little 'pops' of sound at those places, but let's see if the above suggestion works first.

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Answer 2

Nov 1, 2005 5:07 PM in response to catspaw

Thanks for the warm welcome!

I tried your suggestion already (expanding the view of the transition and pulling the level to the bottom). I'm still getting pops. What next? By the way I am supposed to be showing this movie at a wedding in 2 days!

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catspaw

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Nov 1, 2005 5:11 PM in response to Alissa Collins

Hi Alissa - OK now we must go to the next stage - a work-around - see here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107945

There are other forum discussion threads on this too, but try this first.

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Answer 4

Nov 1, 2005 5:34 PM in response to catspaw

I tried the suggestion (deleting the transition, extracting the audio from the clips and then re-doing the transition, but it is still popping. What's next?

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Answer 5

catspaw

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Nov 1, 2005 6:34 PM in response to Alissa Collins

Hi Alissa - look here:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68b90782
and here:
Dave Bramsen, "Sound glitches in iMovie", 04:14pm Oct 29, 2005 CDT

Not sure if there's anything there to help you, but have a read.

Have you tried other transitions? Do you need ANY of the video track's audio? If not then you can untick the check box at the right hand end.

Other than that I have run out of ideas - maybe someone else can help.

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Answer 6

Nov 1, 2005 7:18 PM in response to catspaw

Thank you soo much! There was a suggestion in there that involves applying the letterbox effect to each clip and inserting a new transition. It's working!

Thanks again.

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Answer 7

catspaw

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Nov 1, 2005 8:45 PM in response to Alissa Collins

Excellent Alissa - and thank you for reporting back with the successful outcome. That can be useful for other people with the same problem.

Good luck with making the deadline!:-)

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