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Can't detach audio making an iMovie clip

I came looking for an answer here why my "detach audio" function was greyed out. I had added a 9 min. long interview in which the client was so uncomfortable with a camera, that I had to keep the lens cap on. Obviously, video was black. I wanted the work with it as a voice recording only.


Apparently this is not a frequent problem, so when it happened to them, their "helpers" just believed they did something wrong or didn't have it in the timeline or something.


What worked for me? --- I deleted it from the timeline and readded. Voila! Success.


If at first you do not succeed, rinse and repeat. 🙂

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 8:02 AM

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Jul 31, 2018 8:06 AM in response to jfbradfield

Oy. I over-edited that post. I wanted to work with it as audio, and put a vid above it, first clarification. Second, "happened to them" alludes to answers I saw for people with this same problem over the past couple years in a closed thread. I couldn't reply to that one, but I wanted to share with the forum what *did* work for me. I was successful. Delete it from the timeline. Then re-add it to the timeline from your media. That just might do the trick. (NOTE ALSO: the first time I had it in the timeline, the colored indication of audio data, the "seismograph-looking graphic," was a solid blue line. If yours is a solid blue line, you might need to delete the clip and re-add it, as I did. When I re-added it, the little "seismograph-looking graphic" was there, and my "detach audio" was active. It worked!

Can't detach audio making an iMovie clip

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