IMovie after Ventura Update - no sound or in and out sound on imported files from Facebook

I use files that I import from Facebook and then edit in iMovie. I have done this editing in iMovie for years but after the Ventura update, iMovie keeps giving me the spinning color wheel of death and anything it imports from Facebook, the sound is very glitchy. And when I listen to the sound from the file, (from Facebook) on QuickTime Player the sound is fine. So it is something in my imovie. I had no problems until the update.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Aug 8, 2023 5:04 PM

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Rich839

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Posted on Aug 8, 2023 10:18 PM

Hi,

There is something about Facebook's video/audio format or rendering that iMovie doesn't like. Try running the video through the free download app, Handbrake. Handbrake will convert the clips to H.264, Mp4/AAC by default. Do that even if the codec already is indicated to be Mp4/AAC. Re-rendering often cures issues.

You can get Handbrake here:

https://handbrake.fr/

A simple way to do it is to open Handbrake and do a File/Open Source. Navigate to your video and choose it as the source from the resulting screen. Then do File/Start Encoding. Wait a couple of minutes for the conversion to

complete. Then save and import the converted clip into iMovie.

-- Rich

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