Editing Audio in iMovie

Video Transcript

"Hey everybody, my name's Matt and I am speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. Alright, you can also add sound effects and music to your movie. If you notice below your video track there's 2 empty tracks. These are your audio tracks. There's two of them. You can import audio the same way as we imported video. You can come up to "file" and go down to "import" and navigate to where your audio file is. You can also drag and drop. I've got a xylophone sound effect. I'm just going to drag and drop directly onto my time line. I'm just going to go ahead and import that. And what you can do is, if you select your video track you can adjust the audio. Down here is says "clip 100%" and I can adjust the audio there. You can also do the same thing to your sound effects you have in your audio tracks. I'm going to turn that up a little bit and when you play your movie back, you can hear the audio or the xylophone playing over top of my movie clip. I'm going to go ahead and delete my xylophone sound effect and select my video track there and if you come up to "advanced" and click "extract audio" it's going to take the audio from your video track and put it down below. And from here you can edit the audio just like we did the video. So if I crop that and play it back, you'll notice it only plays where the audio track is. So this is good if you just want video going on over top of a song if you?re making a montage or something. You can just extract the audio and delete it and import a song."