Viewing Movies in the Timeline While Adding Sound

When you’re scoring your movie, you want to be able to add sound at exactly the right moment. With GarageBand, you can watch the frames of the movie in the same timeline as your audio, so you’ll know just where to add sound.

You can watch the movie in the Preview pane to help you compose, and you can zoom in on the timeline to place music or sound precisely.

Tips

Add markers that will appear in your final video project

You can add markers to a project, and then add URLs and chapter titles to the markers. Markers make it easy to navigate to different parts of the finished movie, and let you add links to websites. You can add and edit markers in the editor. To add a marker that will appear in your final video project, drag the playhead to where you want the marker to occur, and then click the Add marker button in the editor.

Steps

Determine the right moment for adding sound or musical emphasis to your movie

Click the Info button to show the Movie Preview pane.
Click Play and watch the movie in the Preview pane.
You can see the frames of your movie in the same timeline as your music. To expand or contract the timeline, drag the zoom slider located below the tracker headers. Drag left to zoom out for a wider view, or right to zoom in for a close-up view. A close-up view allows you to place sounds more precisely; a wider view allows you to see more of your project at once.
Drag loops from the Loop Browser to the timeline to create music, or record yourself playing an instrument in a Real Instrument track.