Frustrated with new iMovie and GrageBand on my new Macbook Pro...???
I've got a little Macbook that I guess has an older version of iWorks on it. It's the only Mac I've ever had and I used it very rarely, mostly just for recording YouTube videos.
I would open iMovie, capture myself performing a song with my guitar using the built in camera and microphone. The original recording, both guitar and vocals, in iMovie pretty darn good, but then I'd go to Share -> GarageBand and move the video and audio there where I'd apply the Live Performance filter. This added a tiny bit of reverb and I've gotten lots of compliments on YouTube about how good the sound is for such a simple setup.
Well, that Macbook pooped out on me. Nice. I just a brand new Macbook Pro with iLife 08 on it. I immediately noticed that iMovie looks completely different. Now, when I record a clip in iMovie it sounds like crap. The sound of the guitar fades in and out and the vocals kinda does it but not as bad. It sounds like a guitar that's plugged into an amp when the battery in the guitar is running low. You strum a chord and it sounds ok at first but then quickly turns into weird electronic sounding mess and then back to good for a second, then back to bad, etc.
Also, I see no option to transfer it into GarageBand anymore!? Surely they've just moved this and not taken it away..?? It doesn't even show up under Share anymore.
Any information on why the mic in this new Macbook Pro sounds 10 times worse than the mic in my old Macbook or how to get my video into GarageBand like I used to would be greatly appreciated.
I would open iMovie, capture myself performing a song with my guitar using the built in camera and microphone. The original recording, both guitar and vocals, in iMovie pretty darn good, but then I'd go to Share -> GarageBand and move the video and audio there where I'd apply the Live Performance filter. This added a tiny bit of reverb and I've gotten lots of compliments on YouTube about how good the sound is for such a simple setup.
Well, that Macbook pooped out on me. Nice. I just a brand new Macbook Pro with iLife 08 on it. I immediately noticed that iMovie looks completely different. Now, when I record a clip in iMovie it sounds like crap. The sound of the guitar fades in and out and the vocals kinda does it but not as bad. It sounds like a guitar that's plugged into an amp when the battery in the guitar is running low. You strum a chord and it sounds ok at first but then quickly turns into weird electronic sounding mess and then back to good for a second, then back to bad, etc.
Also, I see no option to transfer it into GarageBand anymore!? Surely they've just moved this and not taken it away..?? It doesn't even show up under Share anymore.
Any information on why the mic in this new Macbook Pro sounds 10 times worse than the mic in my old Macbook or how to get my video into GarageBand like I used to would be greatly appreciated.
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And I guess I can just install iLife off my old machine's discs?
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Well, nope, couldn't use the old install discs. Then I started searching for an iLife 07 to download and found everything but. I did find another possible solution it looks like.
Apparently apple provides iMovie HD 6 for people who had iLife 06 and then bought '08. I guess they removed the HD stuff too so they allow it here..?? Anyway, according to what I found on Google I should be able to run that and do what I did with iMovie on my old Macbook.
Apparently apple provides iMovie HD 6 for people who had iLife 06 and then bought '08. I guess they removed the HD stuff too so they allow it here..?? Anyway, according to what I found on Google I should be able to run that and do what I did with iMovie on my old Macbook.
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Ugh! Well, I installed the iMovie HD 06 and it opens up and looks just like what I'm used to. I have the option to share with GB too!
Problem is, I record a video clip and play it back...the audio/video is completely out of sync and it still sounds like ass anyway. The guitar sounds like it's recorded with a cheap POS mic that can't do instruments, which is actually what I would expect, however, the OLD Macbook sounded great!!!
Problem is, I record a video clip and play it back...the audio/video is completely out of sync and it still sounds like ass anyway. The guitar sounds like it's recorded with a cheap POS mic that can't do instruments, which is actually what I would expect, however, the OLD Macbook sounded great!!!
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Well, I closed down iMovie HD 06 and reopened it and now it's recording in sync, however, the guitar still sounds like complete ass. They must have downgraded the quality of the mic in these too. What a joke.
That sounds like a bite. You might want to get something like an maudio preamp and hook it to a better external mic and send the sound through the usb or firewire bus. How are you recording the video clips though?
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Yeah, I actually do plan on getting an external I/O device that lets me plug my guitar and Mic into that and then go into the Macbook Pro so hopefully that'll solve the sound problems.
I'm recording the video with iMovie. Or least trying to. When I get the external I/O device I'll probably have to re-learn how to make it work with video. Can GarageBand record video too or just it just allow you to add a video track? I'll have to play with that some I guess.
Anyway, on the old Macbook I simply opened iMovie, hit capture, recorded myself playing and singing. Then I'd go Share -> GarageBand and simply apply the Live Performance filter to it. Export and upload to YouTube. Worked beautifully!
"Upgrade" to a new machine (because my other one took a dump on me) and now nothing works like it used to. Woohoo!
I'm recording the video with iMovie. Or least trying to. When I get the external I/O device I'll probably have to re-learn how to make it work with video. Can GarageBand record video too or just it just allow you to add a video track? I'll have to play with that some I guess.
Anyway, on the old Macbook I simply opened iMovie, hit capture, recorded myself playing and singing. Then I'd go Share -> GarageBand and simply apply the Live Performance filter to it. Export and upload to YouTube. Worked beautifully!
"Upgrade" to a new machine (because my other one took a dump on me) and now nothing works like it used to. Woohoo!
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