Hi guys.
And in today's video you are going to learn how to add music to iMovie, it's easier than
you think, stay tuned.
Ok, so let's look at a few different ways that we can add audio or music into our iMovie
projects.
Now the first way that we can add audio into our iMovie project is by importing from outside
of iMovie.
And if we want to add a file like that, all we have to do is click this little button
here, looks like a down arrow.
So here we are in the import media screen.
In this case we have a dog sound audio file on our desktop, so we're going to import that.
You’ll see we have this green file here and this is the dog barking sound effects,
so we can have a listen to that *dog barking audio playing* now the video were actually
using, is the video that we made for our green screen iMovie video, with our little onkie
robot rolling out here and a dog comes running in from behind to chase him.
We can see the dog running in there.
So we want to add our dog bark just below that, so we click on the green audio and we
can drag that down below where the dog is running.
So maybe we'll have the dog start barking right about there.
As you can see, as I continue to hold I can actually move the audio queue to wherever
I like and then when I let go, there it stays.
So let's try that *dog barking audio plays*.
So that's pretty good.
We’ve got some audio added into our project down here, but what if we wanted to add some
more audio?
Or what if we couldn’t find the audio that we wanted for our project?
We’ll iMovie makes this very easy.
If you navigate up to the audio tab here and click on audio, we actually see on the left
hand side, 3 options.
We can import from iTunes, Sound Effects, or GarageBand.
So we're going to look at sound effects and within sound effects were going to have a
whole list of different effects.
Now we have final cut installed, if you don’t you may not see this second list, but let's
stick to this top area here and let's look under ambiance for sound effects.
You see a lot of different possible sound effects that we might be able to use in our
video . You’ll notice in our video now *robot audio plays* that other than our little robot,
our onkie robot making that sound, there not much else going on, other than the dog bark
*dog barking audio plays* that we added a moment ago.
We're gonna drag and drop this traffic effect onto our timeline to give some ambient background
noise.
There we go.
Lets see what that sounds like *ambient audio plays*.
So that's great, let's say we have our dog barking sound effect and our background audio
in place.
What if we want to add a voice over?
Well we can click anywhere on the timeline, were going to click here and then right below
the preview you should see a microphone, like this.
If you click on that microphone you’ll see a record button appears beneath the video,
as well as a little adjustment button here.
And what we do there is if you single click on that you can determine what the volume
you want for your recording will be, as well as where you want the sound to come from.
We have a built in microphone as well as an external microphone we’re using for this
recording.
Well leave it at system settings for now and let's record a quick voice over.
*Beep, beep, beep* Alright, so here's an amazing video I made with nothing but iMovie, Apple’s
free software, and a great tutorial from simple solutions.
After we stop the voice over we should see a second bar here from where it begins.Let's
have a listen.
*robot audio plays* Alright so here's an amazing video I made with nothing but iMovie, Apple’s
free software, and a great tutorial from simple solutions.
*dog barking audio plays*.
So there are three different ways, you can add music audio, or sound effects into your
iMovie project.
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