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iMovie Help needed!!

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JasonBourne1

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Apr 29, 2009
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Im trying to add music on to my iMovie project, but every time I try to do it, an error message comes up saying "The file could not be located".
I previously consolidated my iTunes library with Seagate External Hard Drive, which appears to be causing the problem.
How do I overcome this by locating the file?
Pls help
 
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xStep

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Go into iTunes and find the file. Does it play in iTunes? If not, then iTunes has lost it. Do a show info on the song and see where it thinks the song is. The file name will be the last part of the path. Search that name using Spotlight, assuming you have 10.4 or higher.
 
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jzuena

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I agree that you need to verify the song still plays in iTunes and if not, fix that. If you click on a song that iTunes can't find, it will open a dialog box to allow you to point to the song's new location. My iTunes library is on an external drive and adding songs to iMovie still works.
 
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JasonBourne1

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jzuena said:
I agree that you need to verify the song still plays in iTunes and if not, fix that. If you click on a song that iTunes can't find, it will open a dialog box to allow you to point to the song's new location. My iTunes library is on an external drive and adding songs to iMovie still works.
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The song plays on iTunes, so there is no issue there. I cant figure out why it wont play it in iMovie
 
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monuments

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Imovie EDITING Q.....

hey i am also new to imovie but have finished a couple of small projects so am a little familiar with it, but one small problem i cant figure out.

im adding an mp3 to a video of myself drumming to the same mp3. problem is to match them up perfectly i either need to edit the mp3 to be about 3 seconds shorter which i dont want to do... or move the the video clip up to start about 3 seconds later than the audio does, make sense? pretty much i dont wanna crop the video clip but just scooch it up about 3 seconds.

can anyone help me? really appreciate it. cheers, Dominick
 
arjen92

arjen92

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trev1980 said:
Was it a iTunes purchased song with DRM? If so it will not play in other apps, I think! Wow my first post - I hope I am correct, sorry if not!
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You are correct :D, although there are ofcourse ways around this. Search the internet.

P.s. Xstep thank you for the notion.
 
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