I need to use a video for a project and it is from the "photos" app on mac. When I opened the video in iMovie, it did not include the audio. Yet when I tried to play it in every other application (Photo, QuickTime, Finder, etc) it worked just fine. What should I do?
MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.10
Hi, Vincent-S,
iMovie is a bit more sensitive to audio codecs than QuickTimePlayer and some other applications. Try converting your troublesome clip to H.264, Mp4/AAC with the free download, Handbrake. Do that even if the codec already is indicated to be Mp4/AAC. Re-rendering often cures audio issues.
You can get Handbrake here:
A simple way to do it without fiddling with settings is to open Handbrake and do a File/Open Source. Navigate to your video and choose it as the source from the resulting screen. Then do File/Start Encoding. Wait a couple of minutes for the conversion to complete. Then save and import the converted clip into iMovie. Now see if you get audio.
-- Rich
Hi, Vincent-S,
iMovie is a bit more sensitive to audio codecs than QuickTimePlayer and some other applications. Try converting your troublesome clip to H.264, Mp4/AAC with the free download, Handbrake. Do that even if the codec already is indicated to be Mp4/AAC. Re-rendering often cures audio issues.
You can get Handbrake here:
A simple way to do it without fiddling with settings is to open Handbrake and do a File/Open Source. Navigate to your video and choose it as the source from the resulting screen. Then do File/Start Encoding. Wait a couple of minutes for the conversion to complete. Then save and import the converted clip into iMovie. Now see if you get audio.
-- Rich
Ok thank you so much. I found a little bit of a simpler way though. If I take the videos and export them to files, then I trim it. Even if it is just half a second, then you can drop the new “edited” file into iMovie. Then the audio should work fine. But thank you!
iMovie Audio Problems
