iMovie and Internal Mic

iMovie App is not recognizing Mic (builtin or external). However other video editing software are recognizing Mic just fine, on Macbook.

Posted on Aug 15, 2020 5:11 PM

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Rich839

Level 8

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Aug 15, 2020 5:23 PM in response to kami31

Hi, kami31,

Try going to System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Privacy and click on Microphone in the left sidebar. Then see if iMovie is checked in the right hand sidebar.

-- Rich

kami31 Author

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Aug 15, 2020 7:29 PM in response to Rich839

Rich839,

Great, works perfect.

Thank you,

Rich839

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Aug 15, 2020 7:56 PM in response to kami31

You are very welcome. 😀

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