I'm trying to add short (17sec) intro clips to my video, but when I put it in, the last sec gets cut off, leaving the speaker's voice being cut off prior to the end of the word. How do I stop this?
I'm using iMovie 10.4.3; MacOS Monterey 12.4
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6
Thanks Rich - that was the first thing I did...I should have mentioned that. When I pull the clip in, it says 17s length, but when I add it to my project, it's suddenly 16.2s and that last 0.8 sec is important!
So, the footage is actually missing rather than being there but just not playable. Do you by chance have a transition at the end of the clip? If so, remove it. Also, there are fade drag-handles at the upper corners of the blue audio part of the clip. Make sure that they are moved all the way to the outside edges of the clip.
If no luck there, try putting the clip into a newly created project and see if that cures the problem of the song being cut off.
If still no luck, try deleting preferences. To delete preferences open iMovie while holding down the Option and Command keys and selecting to delete preferences in the box that appears. iMovie will open in a new library. Reopen your old library to get back to your projects. It is a safe procedure. You may need to reboot to have have the procedure take effect.
-- Rich
There are no transitions, and I ensured the drag-handles are all the way to the outside edges. No joy.
I tried putting the clip into a new project right off the bat when I had the issue. Still no luck. It's funny that it runs fine in QuickTime player but not in iMovie.
I tried deleting preferences. Still clipped.
Thanks for all your suggestions!
Jacquie
O.K. Try putting the clip on your desktop and then do a Control-click/Encode Selected Video Files (from the dropdown menu). The clip will encode and the encoded icon will appear on your desktop. Your original clip will also remain intact as before. Now take the encoded clip and import it into iMovie and see if the sound plays all the way through.
-- Rich
When you exported the clip from QuickTimePlayer, did it export and play fully on the desktop but then truncate when imported into iMovie?
You said that you already tried dragging the right hand edge fully out. You should do that after first using the slider above and to the right of the timeline to fully expand out the timeline.
Good luck with this. Frustrating issue to be sure. I have no explanation for the truncation.
-- Rich
Nope...still cuts it for some reason. It says it's 17 sec but it only plays 16 sec:
Drag out the right edge of the clip to insure that the entire clip is playing.
— Rich
Since the clip plays fully in QuickTimePlayer, export it from there to your desktop and then import the clip into iMovie. See if that works.
-- Rich
Still no joy. I'll just redo the clip and make it a bit longer so the truncation doesn't affect it.
Thanks for all the suggestions!!
Why does imovie cut my audio/video off at the end of the clip?
