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no sound in imovie 11 for a project created in imovie 09

Hello Everyone,

I have a similar, yet different audio issue than what others have posted about in the forums. I have a friend who created a wedding video in iMovie 09 for us, we created the iDVD project, exported, burned, and shipped it to the client. The client wanted a few misc changes, and we've since upgraded our MBP's to iLife 2011, and when we open the same project with the same events in the same folder structure, the audio from the songs in the project have no volume.

The system volume is on and turned up, we tried removing and re-adding the songs to the file, that doesn't help. I can bring up and play correctly the audio file in the audio preview window without issues, and I can play the files in iTunes, but the files won't play in the iMovie 2011 project. We've rebooted, we've checked that the files aren't drm protected, we checked volume levels, ducking all the usual things. Another interesting thing, is that when just hovering in the project window, and hitting the space bar to play the project, that does not play the audio, but I can skim in the project window and hear the audio of the files.

It seems like some sort of glitch in iMovie, anyone have any thoughts?

Chris

Macbook Pro ('06/07 version), 2GB Ram, 250GB hard drive

Posted on Dec 1, 2010 12:43 AM

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Feb 13, 2011 8:52 AM in response to csouthey

csouthey wrote:
I have had exactly the same problem - I also upgraded from iMovie 09 to 11. Made a video for my honeymoon and now want to export it so I can burn it to a disc. The sound has disappeared! Some tracks do work however - it's really bizarre.

Please can someone figure out what has gone wrong?


Same problem upgraded to 9.0.2 some tracks sound still there some no sound.

George in NY

Feb 26, 2011 7:28 AM in response to cwensink

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 (9.0.2) 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.

Nov 4, 2011 7:10 AM in response to cwensink

I had added several sound tracks from iTunes, everything worked till iMovie crashed when I tried to stabilize a clip. After starting iMovie up again, the sound clips wouldn't play anymore, some having the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark.


By trial and error, I used "Share-Export Movie", which told me that links to the sounf files were missing. It proposed to reconnect the link. Simply clicked on it and the export started. I cancelled th export and after that all sound clips worked again.


My 2 ç ...

no sound in imovie 11 for a project created in imovie 09

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