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Importing Movies

You can make great iMovie projects even better when you use GarageBand to synchronize audio and music to your movie. You can use the hundreds of loops and sound effects included with GarageBand to enhance the mood or emphasize the most important moments.

Use the iLife Media Browser in GarageBand to find and preview the movies your want to score, or send your movies to GarageBand right from iMovie.



Tips

Set the mood and punch up action with GarageBand loops and sound effects

GarageBand includes musical loops and sound effects for all the moods you want to evoke and key moments you want to emphasize. Use the loop browser to find just the right sound effect or piece of music for your video.

Mix the levels of your audio tracks

You can independently control the volume levels of the audio that was imported with your movie and the audio you create in GarageBand. You can even place some audio in different parts of the stereo field to give the effect that different sounds are happening in different locations..

Steps

Import a movie into a video track in GarageBand

  1. Open GarageBand and click the New Video Project button in the window that appears.
  2. Click the Media Browser button, and then click the Movies button.
  3. Find a movie by typing its name in the search field, or scrolling through the available movies.
  4. Click a movie to select it, and then click the Play button to preview it.
  5. Drag the movie you want to score to the timeline. (You can also import a movie by dragging a video file from the Finder to the Timeline.)
  6. Choose New Track from the Track menu to create a new Real or Software Instrument Track to add audio to your movie.