audio waveform is visible, but no sound

I wonder if it is a badly formed container? Try converting it with MPEG StreamClip to Advanced Intermediate Codec and importing that.

It is free http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html

-- Dan
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I have the same problem as these other people. In the event viewer, clips do not have sound when playing back. In iMovie 09, all these clips worked in both the event viewer and the project window, but now, only in the project window. These files are .MOV from my iPhone and .AVI that were shot with my camera. These all worked prior to iMovie 11. Audio Skimming is "ON." These files, when revealed in Finder and played with Quicktime have sound. I have deleted .plist without effect.

I see other threads with this issue, none solved yet.

Yes, I am having the exact same problem. I just spent 2 hours at an Apple store and this problems stumps the "Geniuses" as well. The lady I worked with said she was going to do some research as wellas contact apple. Hopefully she can be of help. I am wondering if we have to convert the files from .mov to some standard. Any ideas will help us all. Thanks.

I don't know if this is really the solution, but I had the same kind of problem with no sound for added music tracks.

I started a project in iMovie 09 and later upgraded to iLife 11. The music I had added just wouldn't sound. Even iLife sound effects wouldn't produce a single peep. I tried throwing out the preference and cache files, ran Onyx to clean up system caches, reinstalled iMovie from the latest standalone update etc, but to no avail.

Finally, I decided to try a "Consolidate Media" and, lo and behold, sound was restored to all the previously silent clips.

PLEASE be sure to send your findings and shortcomings to Apple it is the only way to get things noticed and hopefully fixed http://www.apple.com/feedback/imovie.html

How was the media downloaded? Using iMovie? What are the complete specs if the media? Check movie inspector in the QuickTme player.

There's no one from Apple here.

This is a user to user forum, but you can find out how to contact Apple for your country by clicking the CONTACT US link at the bottom right of this (and every) page.

I am having exact same problem. Previously Zoom Q3 clips worked great on prior versions of iMovie. Upgraded all my computers to iMovie 11 and sound is gone on all of them on imported clips, but waveform is there. Since the Zoom Q3 is pretty much designed for concert recording, it makes the result useless. Tried all the .plist, cache deletion, as well as cleanup hints using Onyx, no avail. It's frustrating spending money on new software to find out it drops the ball on such a basic task. Currently using zoom's handyshare. Primitive, but at least it works.

Just sent the info in, thanks for the link.

Anyone else having any luck with Q3 and iMovie '11? Thanks for any info.

9.0.1 just came out which "Improves compatibility with some cameras that create content in multiple formats.". Hope the Q3 is one of them.

And so far it's working for me.. wonderful.