Imported DV is missing sound

Using iMovie 10.1.8, I'm importing some old video from a Canon ZR25MC. The first challenge was with connectivity since I needed to get a Firewire400 to Firewire800 adapter, and a Firewire800 to Thunderbolt adapter. That seemed to work fine since iMovie is able to see and control the camera. Importing video worked fine except it is missing audio. When I enable "show waveforms" in iMovie the audio portion is completely empty.

I've tried two different Macs — an iMac and a MacBookPro, both running HighSierra and iMovie 10.

I've seem some mention online about Quicktime missing some codecs, but that was always in the context of importing compressed files. Here, I'm just trying to import raw DV straight from a camera.

Posted on Dec 16, 2017 7:59 AM

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MarcGoat

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Posted on Mar 26, 2018 7:05 PM

I followed the tutorial here: Get iMovie 9 On Mac OS Sierra 2017! - YouTube to install iMovie 9.0.9 on my High Sierra iMac and then imported from my tape based DV camera to there and was able to retain all the sound and the time code. Plus the .dv file it creates works fine in the current iMovie.

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alhooter

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Apr 22, 2018 4:13 PM in response to Mr. Wensleydale

I'm glad it worked out for you! I've actually been in touch with Apple about this and they have been asking me logs and the like so it appears they are working on a solution.

abling

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Apr 23, 2018 9:15 AM in response to alhooter

Allow me to add my thanks, Alhooter. This fix worked and has allowed me to finish archiving old tapes. Thanks for sharing your solution!

Rich839

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Jan 28, 2018 8:06 AM in response to bnealy

Hmmm. Well, since there is no sound on two different video editor apps and two different computers it might be that your camera is not exporting properly (or unsupported on the new operating systems) or it is media related. As I mentioned before, the original poster's camera does not appear on the supported camera list. You might click on the link I gave and see if your camcorder is supported. I can't explain why one DV tape worked out of the 12 you tried. At this point I am out of ideas. If you find the solution please post back in case it might help others with this problem.

Good luck with this.

- Rich

RubenJV

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Mar 1, 2018 7:17 AM in response to Rich839

I have the same issue in imovie. I tried premire pro CS6 and it work just fine. However it import at mov file insted of mp4. This is an apple imovie issue.

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