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Can't import MP3s into iMovie
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First, my setup is: iMac Combo, 512 MB Ram, OS X 10.1.3, iMovie 2.1.1.
I am trying to import an average-sized MP3, it is about 5 MB, nothing special, has the QT logo. But I can't import it, since it is grey in the open dialogue. The weird thing is that there are some MP3s on my disk that I can import. These MP3s are exactly the same kind, just different music in them, of course. It is interesting that when one of those "working" MP3s is opened in QT 5 and saved under a new name, it won't work anymore.
I had this problem before, on my old iMac in OS X. In OS 9 it works fine. So there must be something wrong with iMovie in X or some creepy thing with part of my MP3s. AIFFs, by the way, work just fine, and that is how I worked around the issue so far. But I would like to resolve this and see if others have the same problem.
Matt
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when you say you open them in quicktime and save them with a different name, you mean you choose Save As in the File menu of Quicktime Pro? because that will save it as a quicktime movie with an audio mp3 track, and iMovie never claimed to read quicktime movies (it's biggest flaw in my opinion)
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blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. the X makes it sound cool
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Yes, that's what I did. I thought Quicktime would write a real MP3. Now how can I find out whether my MP3s are "real" or not?
iMovie also can't import MP3s that I didn't change in Quicktime.
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I don't know what is causing your problem, but if it works in OS 9, you might try deleting iMovie X's preferences, or even the whole program and reinstalling. As for the mp3 end, you should take one of the files that's causing problems and re-encode it in iTunes to see if that helps (iTunes can read quicktime movies and exports bona fide mp3 files).
Personally, I would be more comfortable expanding the mp3's to aiff every time, as each compression will add some noise. OTOH I haven't had a really full hard drive in quite some time
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blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. the X makes it sound cool
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Wild guess - the problem might be that iMovie hasn't been coded to recognize 'untyped' files, that is, MP3s that are only known as MP3s to the Finder because of their extensions. Try opening the file in ResEdit and setting it to MP3 type.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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