With an audio bed-a segment of background audio that will play across multiple clips.
#HOW DO I USE IMOVIE TO PUT A SOUNDTRACK ON BACKGROUND SERIES#
This can be handy when you’re replacing the audio in a series of clips To the video track, iMovie HD mutes the video’s sound. You can mute an audio track entirely by unchecking the box to its right in the timeline viewer. Your sound and picture synchronization drift over the course of a long movie, it’s probably because you recorded using 12-bit Most miniDV camcorders provide two sound-recording settings: 12-bit and 16-bit. Get links to sources of sound effects and music. HD’s audio controls to fine-tune the relative levels of each effect. Add the Cold Wind sound while you’re at it. Thunder sound effect so that it overlaps Hard Rain. To create a thunderstorm, for example, drag the You can build magnificently rich sound effect tracks by overlapping sounds. If the sound effect fades out (as Hard Rain does), overlap You can also duplicate a sound by Option-dragging it in the timeline. Than 10 seconds long, but maybe you need 30 seconds of rain sounds for a particular movie.įor cases like these, simply repeat the sound effect by dragging it from the Audio pane to the timeline as many times as needed. For example, iMovie HD’s Hard Rain sound effect is less You might want some sound effects to play for a long period of time. Multiple audio clips in the timeline’s audio tracks: simply drag one audio clip on top of another.
IMovie HD may provide just two audio tracks, but that doesn’t mean you’re limited to two simultaneous sounds. You can also drag the audio elsewhere in the timeline. The video vanishes but its audio lingers on, and youĬan now position still images and other clips in the video’s place. Next, select the video clip in the timeline and press the Delete key. IMovie HD copies the audio, places it in Audio Track 1, and mutes the audio in the video clip. To do this, drag the video clip to the timeline, then select the clip and choose Extract Audio (1-J) from the Advanced menu. For example, you’re making a documentary about your grandmother’sĬhildhood and you’d like to show old photographs as she talks. (Beatles fans: import some White Album songs from your iTunes library and have fun.)Īt times, you may want to use only the audio portion of a clip. Your audio plays back, but is slowed down. Key while slowly dragging the iMovie HD playhead. Zoom in on the timeline, then press the Option Here’s a handy way to locate the exact spot to trim or split an audio clip. As with video clips, you can reclaim audio that’s outside of a clip’s boundaries by resizing the clip. You can trim the start and end of an audio clip using the same direct-trimming techniques described on page 232. Time, you may want to leave the waveform display turned off unless you need it for precise editing or volume adjustments. When you import an audio clip or music track, iMovie HD must render the track’s waveform-a red progress bar appears at theīottom of the audio track, and the waveform appears a bit blurry until iMovie HD renders it. To make the spikes smaller, press the down-arrow key. Solution: select the audio clip and press the up-arrow key. If the audio in a track is on the quiet side, To work with more precision when viewing waveforms, zoom in on the timeline.
Portions of clips (specifically, when you scroll to within three frames of silence). When you’ve used the View menu to display audio waveforms, iMovie HD’s timeline snapping feature snaps the playhead to silent
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