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. 🙂