Audio Adjustments

I am fairly novice with iMovie, I used Pinnacle in my pre-Mac days I have a video clip with an audio track that I would love to start playing before the video shows up. Its of kids singing and clapping, so I'd like the singing and clapping to start before the video starts...is this possible?

the video that greenandgold shows how to do this, use the precision editor. Basically, open the precision editor, and then click on the waveform button to bring up the audio. You can then click and drag on the blue edit line when the audio is, and drag it to the left so that the audio starts earlier in time than the video. It's called a "J" cut.
Hope this helps!

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