Adding .mov files and no audio during playback, please help

Mike 1868 · Post by **Mike 1868** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:01 pm

Let me start off by telling you what I am trying to do, then what is not working.
I am trying to create a movie intro for my home theater. I am downloading and saving movie trailers from apple.com then placing them in a video project along with some still pics and audio files.
No problem with the stills and audio files. When I insert the .mov file I have saved from apple.com, the video if just fine, but there is no audio at all. I am saving the high defination trailers. I have done this in the past and havent had a problem,but now for some reason I am.
Does anybody have any ideas on how I could go about fixing this problem?
Thanks for any help you can give.

Mike

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Sat May 17, 2008 5:18 pm

You can try using SUPER (FREE!!!) to extract the audio to a WAV file. Then, use that WAV as the audio in your project. Or, you can try converting the entire MOV file to another format (with SUPER), depending on your final project format.

I have done this in the past and havent had a problem,but now for some reason I am.

All of these highly compressed formats can be troublesome when you try to edit or convert them. If you download files from the Net, sooner or later you will run into "problem files". There are lots of variations of each format, and I'm not sure if it's the variations, or if there is a slight defect, or some slight corruption in the format. But some files will work, and others will give you all sorts of strange symptoms...

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sat May 17, 2008 11:00 pm

And Apple isn't exactly a company with a great record for not inserting blocks in some of their products which scr*w up the user's ability to use them the way the want....

Anyway, I have usually found with my own limited experience of .MOV files that I have to convert them first to another format. I use Quick Time Pro for that, usually converting them to DV/AVI format.