IMovie 11 won't play newly added audio files and voiceovers.

I had a 40 minute HD video edited down to 8 minutes and a lot of audio edits, exported to put it up in youtube, found a text misspelling, opened the project to edit the text and discovered the audio won't play any more. What a horrible waste of time. I have iLife 11 and wish I had not updated. Is there another thread addressing this sort of problem? Am using the latest snow leopard.

Ok, I need to correct my addition to this thread because this morning I discovered that I solved my problem when I found that my moving in the past all my iTunes and iMovie files to an external drive had lost the connections between the project and the sound files. I had properly moved the iMovie files within the iMovie software to the external drive but anyway, all I needed to do to get my sound back was to Add to Library in my internal hard drive's iTunes folder all my moved audio. I'm republishing the edited video now finally (which would have only taken five minutes had I not had the audio problem last night), and afterward I will try out Consolidate Media and be more careful how I move things to backup storage on the external drives. I doubt this is what caused the other people's problems above, but in my case it was "pilot error", I think.

did you ever figure out how to fix your sound? I am using iMovie 11 9.0.4; I had draged in some sound clips and could hear the sound in my movie. After dragging 10 sound clips or so into my movie, I can now drag more but there is no sound in the movie from these sound clips. I can add new voiceovers, which work, but I can not hear any new music clips in my movie ... I can only hear the first 10 or so movie clips that I added.

Hi, Did you ever find a solution? my issue is that I can't hear the music when I import a music track in a certain way.

WORKS - If I add a music track where you see it in the background in all green

WORKS - If I add a music track in all green and then move it where I want (pin it) and it turns purple.

DOES NOT WORK - if I drag a music track onto the clip where I want it to start. iMovie 11 help calls this "attach a sound clip to video". The track appears as a green bar below the video.

I've used this method several times before and haven't had a problem. I find dragging the audio to the exact clip much easier than pinning.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks!

This is a very irritating problem. At some point a voiceover that I had previously recorded got "spin" icon with a yellow triangle. I did not notice it at first, but every voiceover recorded subequent to that one was lost. No more could be added.

Finding and deleting the voiceover with the "spin" icon fixed the problem.

Thank you, John! I, too, saw the spinning icon of the voice over, but was so concentrating on the inability to hear any sound that I went to the guru bar, and they told me I had a damaged file (really? the file did everything correctly except for hearing sound from new voice and music files). So, they suggested I start all over again. I just deleated the spinning voice over file and now I can hear new soun and I am so happy! You made my month! Cheers, Sue

Glad to help.

I went through all sorts of conniptions before stumbling upon the solution, resurrecting the "lost" voiceovers deep within the project folder, trying to convert them to something I can import again, recording new voiceovers, etc... Nothing worked. Not only voiceovers, but no new audio could be heard, no matter the source, or how I added it. Very frustrating.

After deleting the troublesome clip, I can add as much audio or voiceovers as I want again. The problem has not returned.

It's funny you mention this, as I've seen others have a similar issue with iPhoto pictures upsetting a project. The behavior usually follows a pattern of, "I was adding pictures and suddenly, every time I would skim the video it would freeze on the first picture and won't display any of the other photos". Knowing that you had a visual cue of some sort indicating there was a problem with particular clip is a big help though. With the imported photos I usually recommend people do a Reaveal in Finder, open the picture in Preview, make a small adjustment and save it back on top of itself again. Sometimes this will clear it up. Other times I recommend making a duplicate project, and start deleting stuff out of it until the ability to skim and get a live preview of the Project comes back. Kudos to you for trouble-shooting this though, I'm sure a lot of other iMovie folks will benefit from it.