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    Adding Audio to Quicktime

    Posted by William Gum on May 25, 2005 at 8:54 pm

    I tried posting on the Quicktime forum but there seems to some problems.

    I am trying to add Audio to a Quicktime clip using Quicktime 7. I followed the instructions as outlined in the help file.

    File > Open File (audio .aiff)
    Edit > Select All
    Edit > Copy

    Open the Movie
    Edit > Add (audio file)

    Both audio file and movie are okay and play them. However, when I follow the above procedure, it does not work. The audio file is an .aiff and the movie is a mpeg2 file.

    The above worked when I used Quicktime 6.5.
    Any suggestions?

    Thanks

    W Gum

    Pdr replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Pdr

    May 25, 2005 at 11:15 pm

    Hi William

    I think this is because it is an MPEG2 file; MPEG2 files cannot contain separate video and audio tracks; instead, if they have audio, these files tracks have to be interleaved, or muxed.

    So you have two options:

    Firstly. you can export the MPEG2 file as a QuickTime movie
    — then add the soundtrack as you have in the past.

    Alternatively, you could use a product like:

  • William Gum

    May 25, 2005 at 11:42 pm

    Peter

    Thanks for the suggestion. It worked

    Bill

  • Pdr

    May 26, 2005 at 12:15 am

    No problem! Happy to help!

    Regards
    Peter

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