In imovie can you edit the audio

If you want to add only the audio from a video clip to your movie project, see Add music and soundtracks in iMovie on iPhone. Touch and hold the audio clip in the timeline until it pops off the timeline, then drag it above the timeline; when you see the puff of smoke in the corner of the clip, release it.

You can choose which audio clips are in the background or foreground you can have three foreground audio clips and one background audio clip playing at any given time.

Tap the Actions button , then tap Background or Foreground. Move an audio clip You can move an entire audio clip, except the background music, to a different place in your project.

Drag the clip to a new location in the timeline, and release. Adjust the duration of an audio clip With your project open in the timeline, tap the audio clip in blue or purple or the background music clip in green you want to adjust. Before fully jumping in, and especially prior to producing your video, check out some tips on how to best edit audio in iMovie.

The screenshots and explanations below are for iMovie 10 only. However, you might be able to adapt what you see to make them work for older versions. The sound is just as important as the images in a video, and should be given just as much attention during the editing process. To properly edit audio, you need a good set of speakers and headphones to hear the sound, but you also need to be able to see the sound.

You can see the sound in iMovie by looking at the waveforms on each clip. If the waveforms aren't visible, go to the View drop-down menu and select Show Waveforms. To get an even better view, you can also adjust the clip size for your project so that each video clip, and its corresponding audio, is enlarged and easier to see.

The waveforms will show you the volume level of a clip, and can give you a good idea of what parts will need to be turned up or down, before you even listen.

You can also see how the levels of different clips compare to one another. With the Adjust button in the top right, you can access some basic audio editing tools for changing the volume of your selected clip, or changing the relative volume of other clips in the project. The audio adjustment window also offers basic noise reduction and audio equalization tools, as well as a range of effects—from robot to echo—that will change the way people in your video sound.

Each clip has a volume bar, which can be moved up and down to increase or decrease the audio level. The clips also have Fade In and Fade Out buttons at the beginning and end, which can be dragged to adjust the length of the fade.

By adding a short fade in and fade out, the sound becomes a lot smoother and it's less jarring to the ear when a new clip begins. By default, iMovie keeps the audio and video portions of clips together so that they are easy to work with and move around in a project.

You would then drag from one window to the other. Although Apple has tried to make it convenient for a person to edit image and sound with iMovie, the process is not perfect for multiple users in the Foundation computer room. Initially, Apple designed the system for single users, so that a person could import sounds through iTunes and draw from sound files in the Music folder, in addition to using animation clips in the Movies folder.

Furthermore, ECI students do not typically work on the computer during the final post-production phase of a project, so it would be difficult for a person to keep all of hers or his files organized in the correct folders.

As a result, you will have to make a compromise and follow a production method that is slightly more cumbersome than the process Apple originally designed for the single iMovie user. However, the technique is still simple and is user-friendly; you will just have to follow a couple of more steps. When you import a movie clip, the software places files in the Clips Pane. From there, you can drag a clip into the Timeline.

Ordinarily, to work with sound you would select Audio in iMovie's project window and then use the Audio window to drag sound files from the iTunes library. Instead, you should keep your work in one project folder in the Movies.

The software will then add the selected sound file to one of the two tracks in the Timeline. From the track, you can move the audio clip around, edit the clip, delete sections that you don't intend to use, etc. You can also import a sound more than once if necessary. Once you have added a sound to one of iMovie's two audio tracks, when you click on the file to select it, the clip will highlight with a purple colour.

You can move the clip along the Timeline by holding down your mouse and dragging the clip. To cut an audio clip into shorter sections, you can use the Play Button to monitor the file or press the Space Bar to play and stop a clip.

If you need edit the clip precisely, you should do the following:. It is possible to change the volume or loudness of a clip. And for more, check out how to record voiceover or add transitions in iMovie. Editing audio clips in iMovie on Mac You can use actions in the menu bar as well as quick shortcuts to make adjustments to your audio clips in iMovie on Mac. Trim to playhead You can move the playhead in your movie Timeline and then trim an audio clip to that exact spot.

Right-click the audio clip and select Trim to Playhead in the shortcut menu. Lengthening or shortening audio clips You can easily lengthen or shorten an audio clip in iMovie. Changing the speed of an audio clip You may want to slow down or speed up an audio clip. Click the Speed button above the Viewer. Select Custom in the Speed drop-down box and enter a percentage next to it.

You can also select a different speed in that box if you prefer. Right-click the clip and choose Show Speed Editor from the shortcut menu. Click the Volume button above the Viewer and move the slider to the percentage of volume you want. To mute the audio clip, click the Mute button. Click inside the clip and when the two-sided arrow appears, drag up or down to adjust the volume.