Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 03/29/06 06:40

In article <1143612326.748426.154000@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
cmashieldscapting@hotmail.com wrote:

> I don't know if I can in good conscience EVER count this dilemma as
> answered, as it is NOT answered and is perhaps incapable of BEING
> answered. This time, on the other side of the bad spot irrevocably
> marred by the phantom audio, I put in the sequence and tried it
> again--followed the instructions for "Retaining the audio under pasted
> video" which WORKED BEFORE, and it did THE SAME THING AGAIN--DOUBLE
> AUDIO!--with the difference that at least this time when I went to
> undo, it at least took out the sound along with the picture INSTEAD OF
> JUST LEAVING IT STUCK THERE like before. Then I tried EXTRACTING AND
> DELETING the audio from the ENTIRE SEQUENCE, taking the SILENT CLIP of
> just the part I wanted, and pasting it into the original WHICH I KNEW
> WAS OKAY, AND AGAIN GOT DOUBLE AUDIO!! This was pasting a SILENT CLIP,
> WHICH ALSO WORKED BEFORE!
>
> Since in this case all the clips were taken from different versions of
> the same song, I was able to do it a different way, by keeping the
> original audio in all the clips (luckily they sang exactly the same key
> and tempo each time and had the motions down perfect) and cutting and
> pasting precisely so one piece of audio flows seamlessly right into the
> next. But anyone can see how much HARDER this was than WHAT I WANTED
> TO DO WHICH iMOVIE 3.0.3 WOULD NOT LET ME DO BY ANY METHOD, which was
> put different pictures on with ONE soundtrack. Anyone can also see how
> that wouldn't have worked with the other songs I did, which took
> pictures shot during different songs and put them together with the
> soundtrack of one song.
>
> Now I am living in fear that when I go to put my edited video into
> Toast, the sound I extracted and deleted from all those clips in the
> other songs will COME BACK TO HAUNT ME, after the way this one acted
> while still in iMovie!
>
> Cori

Why don't you take this to a newsgroup that would more likely have
answers? Like one of the mac ones?

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