No sound imported with iMovie 9.0.6

Hi

You can try if anything in this list will help.

When iMovie doesn't work as intended this can be due to a lot of reasons

• iMovie Pref files got corrupted - trash it and iMovie make a new error free one

• Creating a new User-Account and log into this - forces iMovie to create all pref. files new and error free

• Event or Project got corrupted - try to make a copy and repair

• a codec is used that doesn't work

• problem in iMovie Cache folder - trash Cache.mov and Cache.plist

• version miss match of QuickTime Player / iMovie / iDVD

• preferenses are wrong - Repair Preferences

• other hard disk problem - Repair Hard Disk (Disk Util tool - but start Mac from ext HD or DVD)

• External hard disks - MUST BE - Mac OS Extended (hfs) formatted to work with Video

( UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - works for most other things - but not for Video )

• USB-flash-memories do not work

• Net-work connected hard disks - do not work

• iPhoto Library got problems - let iPhoto select another one or repair it. Re-build this first then try to re-start iMovie.

This You do by

_ close iPhoto

_ on start up of iPhoto - Keep {cmd and alt-keys down}

_ now select all five options presented

_ WAIT a long long time

• free space on Start-Up (Mac OS) hard disk to low (<1Gb) - I never go under 25Gb free space for SD-Video (4-5 times more for HD)

• external devices interferes - turn off Mac - disconnect all of them and - Start up again and re-try

• GarageBand fix - start GB - play a few notes - Close it again and now try iMovie

• Screen must be set to million-colors

• Third-party plug-ins doesn't work OK

• Run "Cache Out X", clear out all caches and restarts the Mac

• Let Your Mac be turned on during one night. At about midnight there is a set of maintenance programs that runs and tidying up. This might help

• Turn off Your Mac - and disconnect Mains - for about 20-30 minutes - at least this resets the FireWire port.

• In QuickTime - DivX, 3ivx codec, Flip4Mac, Perian etc - might be problematic - temporarily move them out and re-try

(I deleted the file "3ivxVideoCodec.component" located in Mac HD/Library/Quicktime and this resolved my issue.)

buenrodri wrote

I solved the problem by removing the file: 3ivxVideoCodec.component. after that, uptdated imovie runs ok.

Last resort: Trash all of iMovie and re-install it

Yours Bengt W

I have a Sony Handycam DCR-SX45. If I insert the SD card into a MacBook Pro running Lion / iMovie 9.0.6, the video imports but there is no sound. I put the same SD card into an iMac with Lion / iMovie 8.0.6, and it imports perfectly. I visited the Genius Bar at my local Apple store and they could not find issues with my MacBook. They couldn't get my video to import with sound. I dragged my iMovie 9.0.6 to the trash bin (where it belongs) and installed iMove from my iLife '09 DVD (it installed 8.0.4). I downloaded the upgrade to get me to 8.0.6 and my video imports properly.

It would appear that 9.0.6 has issues loading MPEG-2 files.

How can I downgrate to 9.0.4? I just got a new macbook pro (they come without a disk) and I didn't make timemachine updates jet.

Unfortunately I have to confirm the mentioned bug. After upgrading to iMovie 9.0.6 and importing new clips from my video camera the clips in iMovie only have video but no sound anymore. I deleted the com.apple.iMovieApp.plist file and restarted iMovie but nothing changed. How can I empty the caches in a right way? Thanks in advance!

Did You try ?

• Creating a new User-Account and log into this - forces iMovie to create all pref. files new and error free

Yours Bengt W

The folks at Apple told me to use time capsule and restore to prior to the 9.0.6 upgrade.

No sound when importing from Sony DCR-SX50E

Restoring iMovie 9.04 from TimeMachine solved the problem for me.

Thanks.

Hi. I recently purchased and iMac with iMovie version 9.04. I added 9.06 a few days ago and now my DCR-SR35E won't import sound with video files. I haven't backed up yet so time machine isn't an option for me. Tried dowloading 9.04 off the apple website but when I attempt to open it, it redirects me to the app store... very frustrating. Any solutions or any idea when apple will remedy the issue? Many thanks.

Unfortunately, Apple has not even acknowledged the problem. Did you Mac come with backup media? That would be the easiest/cheapest option. If you don't have backup media, you will need to wait (which could be a long time) or you will need to find some old iLife '11 media on eBay. Since I bought 9.0.6 from the AppStore, I didn't have a 9.0.x version to go back to. I reverted back to my iLife '09 and all is well.

you can get iMovie 9.04 from

https://support.apple.com/downloads/#imovie

Maybe, you have to deinstall 9.06 before you can install 0.04

it solved my problem

or, if available, restore from timemachine

I've noticed the same issue on 2 Macs running Lion and version iMovie 9.0.6. On one of the Macs I tried importing using the Guest account. Using the Guest account is like creating a new user at login - all settings are set to default and at the end of the session all stuff is deleted. This is ideal for tracking down issues with an application.