[fishguy]

As stated in a previous post, I am very frustrated at the sound quality of exported (QT) movies from iMovie. More specifically, the problem occurs as skips and/or garbled sound in separate audio tracks added as background music. Sometimes I get an exported file free of these audio defects, but in other cases several attempts to export don't help. Is there any other program that will convert .mov (iMovies) to QT to be used in iDVD? When I say any other, I don't really mean the $1000 pro versions, as I can't afford that right now. I'm hoping that this is a OS X 1.5 thing and that going to jaguar will help, but it could be an iMovie issue. If anyone else has experienced this please chime in. I went to iDVD (vs. VHS) as a means of distributing my work in higher quality, but as of now my DVD's sound quality is annoying in some areas to almost unusable in a few. The decrease in quality is enough for me to go back to VHS if I can't resolve this issue - not to mention having a major problem with Apple!

thanks

[zigzag]

Did you compress the audio? Try a different audio setting or compressor (when you go into export > QT, hit the EXPERT button and try different audio compressors/settings).

Just a guess - you probably already know this.

[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!

[fishguy]

OS 9 did the trick. It looks like OS X pre-jaguar has some more bugs. I'm planning on upgrading to jaguar soon and hopefully this will no longer be an issue.