Hi-- I just finished editing some home movies with iMovie. When it came for me to share, I used the share command and picked expert/to Toast Video CD. This generated an MPEG file. When I viewed it, I noticed that some (not all) of the audio was missing. The video was ok. About 5 seconds into the movie, the audio dropped. Noticed too that sometimes it was the audio from the original clip that was lost. At other times, it was the audio imported from iTunes. Is there a way to solve this problem? Here's a breakdown of what I did: 1) imported MPEG-4 clips from Sanyo xActi filmless camcorder 2) added iMovie effects and transition, pruned clips etc. 3) imported background music from my iTunes library 4) adjusted volumes from original clips track or from iTunes import track as needed. cut some iTunes clips, extracted some audio from original clips. 5) Saved project. 6) Shared. Any tips? Salamat.
What would you like to do with the movie you just edited? Burn on DVD, VCD, share through a website, etc? Which iMovie version are you using?
Hi there... I have heard of so many unsatisfactory result of directly exporting/sharing iMovie projects to TOAST directly from iMovie (==>SHARE..EXPERT SETTING) menu... which leads me to try another approach. Here is a glitch-free technic that i have tried and worked for me repeatedly. 1) Import Clips and Edit your movie on iMovie 2) Save your project. 3) Launch Toast (i'm using Toast 6) [insert blank CD/DVD] 4) Select VIDEO Tab 5) Click ADD .. Browse and Select the .mov file of your project. 6) Hit Record. Note: My VCD setting are always set to : * VCD (not super vcd) * PAL (Haven't tried NTSC) * Quality: Standard * Add Orig Photos & Create VCD Men are UNTICKED. Marlon [Edited on 5-19-2004 by McArenas]
Sounds good-- lemme try it tonight. The .mov file is automatically generated by iMovie and placed in the project folder right? Thanks! why don't you use svcd? rcs
YES. Tried selecting SVCD once, using this approach, but the rendered video is very poor (pixelated).
that audio glitch was worse with iMovie 3, and read somewhere it might rear its ugly head with iMovie 4. if the above suggestions don't work, another thing you could try is "extract audio" for all your clips once you have finished editing, and then burn the VCD in Toast. It worked for me. Caution: do this only when you are sure you won't do anymore major editing, or copy the project and extract audio on the copy, preserving the original for future edits.
do the audio tracks on the imovie project work ok? had a problem with imovie 4 just recently. the scrubbed audio tracks would stop playing after about 5 seconds. realized later that if i cut out the beginning or even the end, and then emptied trash, the files wouldn't play. seems like there's a rendering problem with the audio if you do this. what worked for me was scrubbing the audio but not emptying the trash. then exporting to QT or iDVd.
Tried your suggestion using the automatically generated. mov file. Burned 2: 1) VCD and 2) SVCD (both NTSC) Then viewed both on Akira and Pioneer players. SVCD seems to have better color density. The sound is all there = ) but there's a slight lag in the sync of the film clip audio-- won't obsess on this right now-- but will try not to crop any audio next time around and see what happens. Am just happy to have the sound. Thanks for pointing out the .mov file-- it works better than any "share file" from iMovie. rcs [/quote]
