How to export audio track from iMovie '11

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How to export audio track from iMovie '11

I found that the sound from the video recording of a live band worked pretty well for my purposes (listening for problems). But I don't need the video itself for some things. Is it possible to just grab the audio from the video and save it as just a sound file? I tried messing with iMovie but couldn't figure out a way yet.

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.6.2), http://picturehawaii.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 9:32 PM

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Daniel Slagle

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Dec 20, 2010 12:14 PM in response to dbk9999

You can detach the audio then copy and paste it around if you have other clips in the time line but if you want all the audio from a clip or group of clips put them in a project and do a custom QT export and export "Sound to AIFF file". Import that as an audio track in iTunes or drag directly on to another movie clip.

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dbk9999 Author

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Dec 20, 2010 12:14 PM in response to Daniel Slagle

Thanks - just the audio was what I wanted and your instructions worked perfectly.

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