There's a good post on Apple's forum about this problem -- having no sound when trying to add background music to iDVD -- but there was one step that tripped me up. The key concept here is that the problem is that iDVD has the background music set to mute, and you need to un-mute it. So basically you need to look at the menu drop zone and remove the iTunes note icon. Now … [Read more...] about iDVD No Sound on Menu – How to Get Sound on the iDVD Background Menu
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How to Convert WMV to iMovie (MP4) for Free –
So now that I've converted basically my entire "video life" to the Mac platform and iMovie (and final cut studio soon...), I hit a roadblock when I tried to bring WMV's from my previous Windows-life into iMovie. So I tried a few tricks and while my tricks are usually pretty handy, I couldn't find a good way to go from WMV to MP4, or even to go from WMV to MOV. The iMovie WMV … [Read more...] about How to Convert WMV to iMovie (MP4) for Free –
iMovie 09: Freeze Chapter Marker Video
iMovie '09 is kind enough to play your video for you in your chapter markers. But what if you don't want to spoil the show by having your video played? To "pause", "freeze" or otherwise have iMovie NOT play the video in the chapter markers, here's what you do: 1. Command + i (with nothing selected) 2. Move the duration slider to left to 0 (zero) seconds. You can then play … [Read more...] about iMovie 09: Freeze Chapter Marker Video