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I have several movie downloads from the web, and some are .avi, .mpg and .mov. All have QT icons, and all play on QT.

But, when I drag and drop or import to line them up in iMovie, the sound disappears.

The typically useless and vague Help Center (ministry of disinformation), has a blurp about a certain file-format.

If I get the QT Pro and spend the 30 bucks, will I be able to export as a different format to iMovie?

Hope this is pretty straightforward questioning.

Thanks!
-matt

[Jacke]

Does this happen with all movies or just MPEG movies?

[Bennylen]

Open the movie and check "Get Movie Properties" under the Movies menu. Click on the "Movies" pop up. If it says "MPEG1 Muxed Track" then Quicktime can't separate the video from the audio and you will only get the video. Quicktime Pro won't help either.

You will need to find other software that will separate the audio/video and then add them back. But then you may run into out of sync problems.

Good luck.

[Jacke]

MPEG Streamclip is one of the applications that can help with MPEG files (also MPEG-2 if you have the QT MPEG-2 component).

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Jacke,

Bingo!
That works. Basically, you 'export' the file to DV, and it's as if you shot it on a DV palm-corder.

Pretty amazing, and it's free!

Thanks, this forum and Hometheaterforum.com have proved invaluable as always!

-matt

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Jacke,

Do you have any Frank Zappa material?

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OK, MPEG Streamclip works for .mpg files, but not .AVI nor .MOV...

Any suggestions on how to handle and convert these files to .mpg?

Thanks again.

[Jacke]

I'd imagine that iMovie uses Quicktime to import the files, so if they play with sound in Quicktime Player, they *should* import with sound to iMovie... However, I did notice that the sound got borked when I tried importing a Quicktime movie with MP3 audio, so that could be it (same behaviour when exporting from QT Pro to DV-stream).

If you get info (Cmd-I) while they're open in QT Player, what does it say under 'format'?

EDIT: If you'd have QT Pro you could try exporting to Quicktime movie with DV video and uncompressed sound (AIFF). You can still try it even if you don't have QT Pro, if you have Classic with the latest Quicktime for Classic (6.0.2) you can get many of the 'Pro' features with the old Movieplayer 2.5.1 that you can get from Apple's FTP server.