No Sound from Flip video clips on iMac, but works on Mac Pro and Macbook

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No Sound from Flip video clips on iMac, but works on Mac Pro and Macbook

I just got a flip video camera today. I tried it out at work, made a quick video, imported it on my mac pro, and it worked fine. I came home took some videos, went on my iMac(24 inch core 2 duo) and was surpised that the videos imported without sound. After searching the web, I didn't find any concrete solutions, just some suggestions that pointed towards codecs. Since nothing worked, I sent the file to my wife's macbook pro to try it out. The same AVI file on her computer plays sound. Now I am totally confused.

Any ideas?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on May 7, 2009 8:30 PM

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Answer 1

May 8, 2009 12:05 AM in response to integrity

Maybe the sound output setting is muted on your iMac.

Or maybe whatever application you are using to play the video on the iMac has the sound turned OFF.

If the same video file was sent to another Mac, and it played with sound, I don't think it is the importing process, or the file itself, that is causing this issue.

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May 8, 2009 6:30 AM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

The sound is on, and other files and applications play sound.

In fact, in iMovie 09, there is sound. But there is no sound in quicktime, VLC player, the flipshare software the camera works with, and if I upload to youtube via the iMac there is no sound on the youtube video, but if I upload the file to youtube from the macbook pro, there is sound.

I don't know what to try next.

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