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Preserve original audio after (muted) video overlays?

In iMovie 11, I have a two-minute video clip with audio that I want to preserve. Onto this video track I'm overlaying several short clips of video only. The first of these short overlay clips does allow the original audio to play, which is what I want. But the following clips mute the original audio track. How do I get the original audio to play?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), iMovie 11

Posted on Feb 3, 2011 1:05 AM

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Feb 3, 2011 1:42 AM in response to wbgo

Click on the small gear icon on one of the cutaway (overlay) clips and select Audio Adjustments from the pop-up menu. In the Inspector that opens, ensure that Ducking is not checked (ticked). Also, reduce its volume to zero. Open the Inspector in the original video clip and ensure that the volume is set to a suitable level - it usually defaults to 100%. Hopefully this will do the trick!

John

Feb 3, 2011 3:22 PM in response to John Cogdell

Thanks for the response, John, but no change. The settings you suggested were already being used for the one video overlay that does allow the original track's audio to come through (as I want), as well as the following video overlay that does not allow the original track's audio to come through (not what I want).

I wonder if the method by which I inserted those video overlays makes any difference? I think that, for most of the overlays, just to make sure, I deleted the audio before overlaying it into the original track.

Preserve original audio after (muted) video overlays?

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