Normalising Sound Levels in iMovie

Hello,
I have an iMovie project which is a video/audio interview between two people. Unfortunately the interviewer's mic is far quieter than the interviewee's. Is there a way that I can normalise the sound levels within iMovie so that the volume is consistent?
Thanks!
Tom Ewer

The only way to do that is, if you have iMovie 11, view the audio levels under the video clips and manually change it each time the people switch talking.

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