Background music volume adjustments

Click on the Inspector icon at the beginning of the audio track. You should see the inspector. Go to the audio tab of the inspector, and you should see a volume slider.

I'm able to drag the volume level up or down in any track, including the embedded audio in the video track. In my test, I was able to drag the volume line in the video track, plus in 3 other audio tracks that had been dragged from iTunes - all are overlapping to some extent (that is, one beneath the other, but staggered).

John

Message was edited by: John Cogdell

Just had a thought (a possible solution I've posted quite frequently lately).

This may or may not help, but try deleting iMovie's preference file. With iMovie closed, in Finder navigate to the file named "com.apple.iMovieApp.plist" in your User (Home) folder Library/Preferences. Drag this file to the Trash. When next opened iMovie will create a fresh file with the default settings. You may need to change some settings to suit your own preference. To do this, in iMovie's Menu go to iMovie>Preferences and make appropriate changes in each of the tabs.

Deleting the preference file can often fix problems with iMovie. The file can become corrupted in some circumstances, such as when iMovie quits unexpectedly or hangs, requiring a force quit.

See this Apple article for more on iLife Troubleshooting Basics (includes a reference to deleting the preference file): http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3249

NOTE: For those using iMovie '09 (version 8), the preference file is named "com.apple.iMovie8.plist".

Hope this helps - it can't do any harm to try it.

John