iMovie 7 and discrete audio and video sources when capturing to disk

[Kevin Callahan]

Most everyone knows that QTPro 7.2 broke the ability to bring audio  
in from numerous firewire and USB interfaces, including the MOTU  
896HD.  I had been using QTPro 7.1 up to that point (and QTPro  
instead of iMovie) when capturing video to disk when I needed high  
quality audio (which is always).

I posted a bug to RADAR a long while back regarding iMovie 6 not  
allowing the user to define discrete audio and video sources when  
capturing directly to disk.  Because of that, I've been using QTPro,  
saving the resultant file, then importing it into iMovie 6.  Not  
optimal workflow, but it was a workaround.

Yesterday, I picked up iLife 08 and iWork 08.   My hope was that  
Apple put support in iMovie 7 for discrete audio and video sources  
when capturing directly to disk.    I tested it with my MBPro using  
iSight at first.  Great !  video via iSight, audio via my MOTU  !   
woo hoo !

But when I hooked up my Canon camcorder, I discovered that while I  
had set the audio source to the MOTU, iMovie disregarded the setting  
and used the Canon's onboard mic.  OUCH!

I first thought I had mucked up the settings, but after a few tries,  
I still could not get my MOTU to be the audio source WHILE the Canon  
was the video source.

Can someone with a similar setup run a test?  see if you can take a  
camcorder and an audio interface (preferably firewire) and capture to  
disk in iMovie 7?

I've already RADAR'd the bug, but I'd like feedback from others.

Thanks
Kevin

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