Audio won't import with video in iMovie 11

Really??This is supposed to fix for billion dollar company?

I have 20 mini dvd tapes on shelve waiting to process and thanks OS sierra high and imovie 10 ,

I'll have you look for for different soft or OS.

Hey sstanley

If you are having issues with audio upon import, check out the following article that will assist with sorting out the issue.

iMovie is missing audio on import, export, or playback

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2289

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.

Regards,

-Norm G.

Useless advice Norm!

His question was "My iMovie 11 (9.0.4) " & you advise to go to 'iMovie is missing audio on import, export, or playback' which was Last Modified: Sep 12, 2008

Now - can you provide some useful advice that is relevant to iMovie 11 & was written in the last 5 years??

Hi,

I have the same problem if I import low-res MPG videos from my Sony Camcorder. However, HD videos work fine.

I think it is a small bug in iMovie since I can see the audio when I select view->Show Waveform and have a workaround by using Apple software only.

Currently following workaround works for me.

1. import the files as usual to iMovie to a new event.

2. find the files on disk by select a clip and the use File->Reveal in Finder (Quicktime plays them with Audio!!!)

3. open each file with Quicktime (select all + open)

4. For each movie in Quicktime do File->Export->iTunes

5. After import to iTunes is done, reveal files in iTunes.

6. to clean up, remove the imported clips without audio from iMovie

7. Import the clips from (5) to iMovie

8. remove the files from iTunes

It consumes time, but works for me. I found no reduction of quality.

Best regards

Ruppi

PS: I have iMovie 10.0.2 on Maverick 10.9.1

Message was edited by: dlruppi

I'm using imovie 9.0.9 with OSX 10.7.5

I also went through days of troubleshooting why some clips have sound and some don't. All quicktime files have sound when played from quicktime. But no sound when imported into imovie.

None of the Apple or User suggestions worked. But I finally found a solution. I'm working on a project with over 100 clips. Everything was fine until I tried to import around 20 clips at the same time. Some had sound some didn't. Also, when done with each section, I exported the movies and deleted the thumbnails from the imovie clips window to clean up and organize the session. When re importing clips which previously had sound, the sound was gone but the image would play.

What I found was that any file which had been deleted from the clips window, was now in the Rejected Clips window. Re importing the file would only show image but no sound. Once I Move Rejected Clips to Trash, emptied the finder trash, and re imported the files, all files played with sound.

Back up original files on hard drive

In imovie

Select View Rejected Clips

Select Move Rejected Clips to Trash

Empty Trash in Finder

Re Import Files

Thanks!! This workaround with a Quicktime export to iTunes and then import from there to iMovie solved the problem. Pretty amazing solution—how did you ever discover it??

I’ve found the same problem on the iOS version

Who has the time to go through all of this??? Why doesn't the **** program just work the way it's supposed to work!

OMG Apple WHY!?!?!?!?!?!? Again, Steve is rolling in his grave!!!!!!!! I thought when I heard someone say that Apple will be gone in ten years they we're crazy, but now......SAD 😠😕😟😮

SAD BUT TRUE