[fishguy]

Why do some of my iMovies have audio problems when I export them as quicktime for iDVD? Not all quicktime movies, just a few, have either skips or small garbled patches of audio. The video is fine as is the original audio captured by the camera. The problem is in audio tracks (MP3s) that I add to my iMovies. There is nothing wrong with the MP3s and there is nothing wrong with the iMovies. It is only after I export them for iDVD. Also, I tried re-exporting them and for one of the movies it worked. The first quicktime was pretty bad (again just added audio tracks) so I tried to re-export it and the second quicktime was perfect. However, for 3 other movies, I tried several times with no luck. I made sure that no other app was running at the time I exported.

Any suggestions? This is really bugging the shite out of me!

[FatBastard]

The work-around that I've had marginal success with is to reboot under OS 9 and export from there. As a matter of fact, I even assemble my iMovie in OS 9 as well, when importing files they come into iMovie in order and places the clips directly into the movie itself (not available in OS X). There are two other options; deleting the preference files and changing the time line down to 1x but that worked once or twice but was not as reliable as OS 9.

Thanks for re-addressing this issue. I've tracked this one before and it is a huge denial with Apple Tech Support that it even exists. Three "senior level" techs have left me high & dry on this issue (will not return calls and/or follow through with an explanation or solution). I've gone through everything that they suggested from re-installing everything and optimizing the drive and nothing helped. It is an OS or software issue, the ball is in Apple's court and I've got no more time or patience to deal with them.

Good luck!