Eliminating or sorting music during a video clip in a slideshow.

I created a slideshow of pictures with no sound and some video clips with their own sound in iPhoto. I would like to have overall background music but silence or soften it substantially it during the video clips to allow their own sound to come through exclusively. How do I do this?

There's no way to completely eliminate the background music with iPhoto. If you have access to an older version of iMovie, i.e. iMovie 6 HD (part of iLife 06), you can do exactly what you want. It's by far the a best iMovie version.

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I want the music to be the same volume throughout the slideshow because I've taken off the audio from the video clips I have inserted.

Strange, most users want the music to duck even more than it does. I don't know any way to do what you want with iPhoto. There may be workarounds with other apps like iMovie, etc. but not a simple fix in iPhoto itself.
OT

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I detached the audio from the video clip and deleted it, that way it was possible to listen to the music background and see the actual video clip, but no audio from the video clip.
How can I have both?

Hi
My first thought is -
Where are the original Audio file ?
If it was on an Audio-CD then the CD is Ejected and one tries to play the movie - it can not find it = Silence.
You are using an Non-Destructive Video editor - meaning that You have raw material - Video, Audio and photos but no Movie in Project - only a text document directing How You want it to be played. So if Audio is not where it was when this document were created - iMovie can not find it and e.g. audio goes silent.
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I suspect you are referring to rubber-banding (the ability to set the volume between points on a clip). im08 does not have this feature, although you could try 'ducking', which automatically adjusts the volume on a clip (or alternatively on all other clips) dependant on the volume of other audio playing at the same time.

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I have 15,000 clips in my iphoto and time to trim her down. We use little canon powershots, which also takes this little video clips. Kids have put a lot in there. 4 years, 2004-2007
Everything is sorted by date, of course. IS THERE A WAY to separate out (so I can view and store or trash) the many video clips from the photos?
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Hi JON,
Make a Smart album with the criteria of "keyword" is "Movies"
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How to split additional music on a video clip

Good day,
I'm designing a project, with both photos where I sometimes add my voice and video clips where I want to keep the original sound.
I want to add music on every photo part, but none on every clip part.
I did not find a way to cut an additional music and move it to the beginning of the next photo sequence.
For instance, let's assume thet the project begins with a 25 seconds pictures sequence, the a first video clip, then a 30 seconds photos sequence and finally a second video clip ; what I want to do is add one music file, play the beginning of the music with the first sequence, then cut the music and move the cut part to the photo sequence, then to do the same with the other photo sequence, in order to have no music added to the video clip. Consequently, the music will be split in 2 parts (it could be more).
Does anybody have any idea about the way to proceed?
Thank you.
Claude

You should be dropping it below the timeline but it looks as though you may be using music in a strange format.
Exactly what type is the music?
Message was edited by: Ian R. Brown

Editing video clips in a slideshow and Memory usage

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2) When a slideshow is created does it take up HD memory?

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OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on. Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially. Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do. Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.
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Removing music but not speech from a video clip??

As a music teacher I want to remove the music from a video clip but not the speech so that my students can compose their own music to accompany the clip. Is there any way I can do this in iMovie?

Hi
You are describing to scarce. Is music and speech separated in time or do they over-lap ?
• If separated - Yes audio can be muted
• If over-lap - No Music and Speech is airborne wave or air compressions in time. So they are of the same nature and a program that would be able to differentiate them would be a NASA-project and most probably beyond. (most probably in need of Field-Vector-Analysis - and big big big Computer)
What You have is
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In TV-broadcasting one more often silence all audio and Speech Dubbed. Tedious but best possibly result.
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How do I transfer video clips from iPhoto to iDVD? I followed the instructions in the help section but it did not work.

I would like to make a DVD from video clips I took of my Grandchildren. I went to the help section and it stated to click on the video clip, then click 'share' and choose 'send to iDVD'. That option was not available on the share button. How to I transfer to iDVD. Thanks for any help.

Do you plan to put each video clip in iDVD to be playes separately? If so then here's how:
1 - open iDVD and select your theme.
2 - click on the Media button at the bottom right and then on the Photo button at the top.
3 - in the search window type in ".mov" (or the extension of the video clips you plan to use).
4 - all of the video clips with the extension you entered will be displayed and you can drag them into the menu area at the left.
Another way would be to put all of the video clips in an Album and click on that album to view and drag the clips:
Remember, the order that they are added to the menu will be the order that the buttons will highlight when you scroll thru the buttons with a DVD player remote.
This will give you a menu with a separate button for each video clip (up to 12 in a menu with some themes).
If you want to play all of the clips one after another you could create a slideshow in iDVD with the "+" button at the bottom and drag the video clips into the slideshow as you would still photos. Set the slide duration to anything but manual and don't apply any transition.
That will let you play all of the clips sequentially.
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How do you add video clips to an iPhoto slideshow?

I've made a slideshow for my daughter's graduation. I tried to include a couple of video clips in it, but when the slideshow gets to the first one the screen goes black and the video doesn't play. How do I do this the correct way? I use iPhoto '11

Do the video clips play in iPhoto at all?
What theme for the slideshow are you using?
Where are the video clips from?
Are you using any transitions between slides particularly the video clip?
Have you tried putting the video clip in a slideshow by itself and see if it will play?
OT

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1 - open iDVD and select your theme.
2 - click on the Media button at the bottom right and then on the Photo button at the top.
3 - in the search window type in ".mov" (or the extension of the video clips you plan to use).
4 - all of the video clips with the extension you entered will be displayed and you can drag them into the menu area at the left.
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Remember, the order that they are added to the menu will be the order that the buttons will highlight when you scroll thru the buttons with a DVD player remote.
This will give you a menu with a separate button for each video clip (up to 12 in a menu with some themes).
If you want to play all of the clips one after another you could create a slideshow in iDVD with the "+" button at the bottom and drag the video clips into the slideshow as you would still photos. Set the slide duration to anything but manual and don't apply any transition.
That will let you play all of the clips sequentially.
OT

Music to fade during video clip

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You might want to post this in the iMovie forum...

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You might want to post this in the iMovie forum...

How do I add a video clip after my music?

Its sort of a wierd question but basically to me imovie09 is a bust since i cant really see a real timeline to edit my project. But what im trying to do is after i edited my video and the song i have ends i want to add another clip after the song but without the song playing. Everytime i add a clip it either goes to the top of my project or just adds it to the song. basically what im tryign to ask is, how do i add a clip after a song?

Lurkai wrote:
ohh ok, so what i need to do is detach the audio and it will become that thin green strip at the bottom of the clips is what you are saying?
you don't like tutorials, don't you?
where does the audio come from?
if you ADD audio/music/voice over to a project, there are TWO options.
#1:
you drag it into the (grey) background of your Project - and it becomes a background track with its own 'behaviour': it will try to background the WHOLE Project as much as possible. as long there's audio left, any added video/still will lengthen the audio.
#2:
drag audio ONTO a clip .... it gets connected PLUS it offers the usual options any clip offers; copy/pasting, cutting, fading, effects. here, I added a fade and the last video-clip is audio-less.
safey?

Eliminating or sorting music during a video clip in a slideshow.

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