Add together a soundtrack and audio furnishings to your iMovie project

iMovie includes congenital-in soundtrack music and sound effects that you're gratuitous to apply in your iMovie projects.

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    iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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    Mac

Add together a soundtrack to an iMovie project on iPhone or iPad

iMovie for iOS and iPad Bone includes a collection of soundtracks and sound effects created by well-known composers and artists that you're free to use in your project.

Add together a soundtrack

Add together sound effects

When you add together a sound effect, the sound effect is fastened to the video clip above it in the timeline. If you move the video clip, the audio effect moves with the video prune. This is unlike from soundtracks, which are independent of the video clips in your project.

  1. With your project open, curl the timeline so that the playhead (the white vertical line) appears where you want to add the audio effect.
  2. Tap the Add Media button, tap Sound, and so tap Audio Furnishings to browse the built-in sound effects.
  3. Tap a sound issue to preview it.
  4. To add a sound effect, tap the Add Audio button  adjacent to the sound effect.

Adjust the volume of a clip

Subsequently you add together audio to your iMovie project, y'all can adjust the volume of audio clips to become the sound mix just right. You lot can also adjust the book of video clips that were recorded with sound.

To accommodate the volume of an audio or video prune, tap the clip in the timeline, tap the Volume button at the bottom of the window, then adjust the slider to increase or decrease the volume. When yous turn the volume of a clip all the fashion downward, a Mute iconappears on the prune in the timeline.

You tin can too brand other adjustments, such as fading the book of the clip or changing its speed. Learn how on iPhone and iPod impact, or learn how on iPad.

Add together music and sound clips in iMovie on Mac

iMovie for Mac includes a collection of music and sound clips that you're free to use in your projection. In improver to audio effects like pelting and footsteps, iMovie also has other useful audio clips like ambiances and jingles.

  1. With your project open up, click Audio at the top of the browser, then click Sound Effects in the sidebar on the left. Yous might have to click the Media Browser button to show the Media Browser.
  2. To preview a jingle or sound clip, hover the pointer over a option in the list, then click the play button adjacent to audio clip. Y'all tin can too select a song or sound clip, click in the waveform at the top of the media browser, and then press the Spacebar to preview.
  3. When you've found the song or sound clip you lot like, elevate information technology from the media browser to the timeline:

Arrange the volume of a clip

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