Handling Music/Sound Tracks

I have 2 questions regarding the handling of music/sound tracks:
1) I understand that iMovie automatically creates a 1 second cross-fade between consecutive music tracks. Is there a way to extend this (possibly to 3 or 4 seconds)?
2) Is there a way to "layer" tracks in iMovie? For example, I'd like to lay down a piece of music and then add a sound effect over top of it, so that both would be audible at the same time?
Thanks!

1) I understand that iMovie automatically creates a 1 second cross-fade between consecutive music >tracks. Is there a way to extend this (possibly to 3 or 4 seconds)?
You can certainly do longer fades. Set the Fade to manual and move the slider to (up to) 2 seconds.
It is also quite easy to do a longer cross fade. You just overlap the tracks. To see how, see the video below.
2) Is there a way to "layer" tracks in iMovie? For example, I'd like to lay down a piece of music and >then add a sound effect over top of it, so that both would be audible at the same time?
Yes, this is very easy to do. Just drag and drop. [This video tutorial might be the best way to explain.|http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#audioclips]
Message was edited by: AppleMan1958

Similar Messages

  • Problems with added music sound tracks

    Please Help. My music sound files added to iMovie 09 are stuck on full volume and when I close and re-open my project the sound has slightly shifted and is out of sync with the video. The project is over 1 hour long with many varied added sound effects.
    I would really appreciate any help
    Thanks
    Joe

    If you go to page 8 of this forum, you'll see that over 1,200 of us have experienced basic audio problems with iMovie 09. I guess you should pick and choose your solution from those who responded on that post...(?)

  • Slide show - audio Narration & Sound Track

    IN PE7 is there a way to adjust the volume of the audio narration and the background sound track . If I add an audio narration to the slides and add a music Sound track to the show - The music steps on the narration and it can not be heard.

    Robert,
    In the PSE 7 slide show editor you could decrease the volume of the music soundtrack for its entire duration - but that may make the volume of the music too low when there is no narration. You can also add multiple music files to a slide show, but creating separate pieces (files) from a music sound track would require additional software to edit the music files and then difficult precise placement of the pieces of music around the narration. In my opinion, neither is really a good answer.
    What format do you plan to use for the Output command of your completed slide show?
    Do you also have Premiere Elements 7? If no, do you have other video editing/creation software on your PC?

  • HELP THE  MUSIC ON THE SOUND TRACK IS LOW

    I HAVE PREMIERE ELEMENTS 9
    I AM USING ON WINDOWS 7 SYSTEM
    I HAVE NO TROUBLE MAKING A FILM
    ONCE I HAVE COMPLETED THE FILM I PLAY IT BACK AND THE SOUND AND PICTURE IS PERFECT
    I THEN BURN IT TO A DVD
    I THEM PLAY IT BACK OVER MY COMPUTER AND DVD PLAYER
    EACH TIME ON BOTH SYSTEMS THE VOLUME  IS LOW ON THE MUSIC TRACK
    THE PICTURE IS FINE
    THE AUDIO RECORD BY THE CAMERA IS FINE
    THE SOUND TRACK ON THE MUSIC TRACK IS LOW
    I HAVE TRIED  EVERYTHING TO CORRECT IT
    I HAVE INCREASED THE GAIN TO PLUS 14 DB
    I HAVE MOVED  YELLOW LINE TO MAX
    I HAVE MOVED CHANNEL MIXER  TO MAX ON THE MUSIC CHANNEL
    MY MUSIC SOURCE IS MP3
    I HAVE ALSO USED SMART SOUND AND THE VOLUME IS ALSO LOW
    AUDIO ON TRACK ONE IS PERFECT
    SO CAN ANYBODY HELP ME
    REGARDS
    BRUNO

    Excellent!
    Every now and then, the Soundtrack and Narration Track (both Fixed Tracks, as they are automatically created, and cannot be Deleted) will act odd, and not work, as they should. These issues seem to be Project-specific, as they might work perfectly in the next Project. Sometimes, it seems that the issues are Asset-spcific, where another type of Asset, or maybe just a different Asset, even of the same type, will work fine.
    When either fails to work properly, the "fix" is usually to just Move the Assets to a free Audio Track, other than either of those two.
    As outlined in the linked article on MP3's, above, that file type can also be very problematic. I routinely convert ALL MP3's to PCM/WAV, and have never had an issue.
    Good luck,
    Hunt

  • How can i slide a sound track one frame at a time in Pre 10

    i do a lot of music videos where i record audio separtly from the video and then sync them and i have a lot of trouble getting them in sync, does anyone have any good tricks to do this? also, can i move said sound track one frame at a time in either direction to help get these tracks to sync up?
    Thanks

    If you zoom to the max, and watch that little TimeCode box (it pops up, when you begin dragging), just look at the last two digits, as those are the Frames. Even with my clumsy hands and fingers, I can nail the displacement to Frame-accurate standards.
    Now, some other NLE's go a step further, in that when the Clip is Selected, one can nudge it along, with modifier keys and the Left-Right Cursor keys. I do not think that has been added to PrE 10, but would be a great Feature Request.
    Good luck,
    Hunt
    [Edit] Well shut my mouth! After you Select the Clip (unlinking with Alt+click, if muxed), just hold down the Alt key, while hitting the Left-Rigt Cursor keys!!!! Forget that Feature Request.
    Message was edited by: Bill Hunt

  • How can I stop sound track from being divided when adding clips to other tracks in PrE12?

    The situation:
    I have a project with several minutes of video clips on the timeline (expert view) in "Video 1/Audio 1."  There is also music on the sound track (below the empty "Narration" track).
    Any time I make an edit to the Video 1 track, PRE cuts the Sound Track.  (Note that this is not the Audio 1 track, it's the sound track which is two tracks away.)  If I insert a clip, the Sound Track is cut and left with a gap.  Same if I do a FreezeFrame insert.  This is bad enough (make ten insertions, have the Sound Track chopped into ten separate pieces), but it gets worse: when I try to slide the Sound Track pieces back together, the Video 1 clips will be moved around.
    This appears to be a major bug but I'm hoping there is a simple way to deal with it.
    Here's what the Manual (p.71) has to say about it (not much).
    "When you insert a clip into the Expert view timeline, adjacent clips on all tracks shift to accommodate the new clip. By shifting all clips together, the audio and video of the existing clips remain in sync."
    * The question here is, adjacent to what?  The Sound Track is a continuous music clip of many minutes; it is alone on the Track, and there is nothing on the track above it (Narration track).  So it's not adjacent to anything, and yet it is being chopped up.
    The Manual continues:
    "Sometimes, you don’t want all clips to shift with each insertion. For example, when you add background music that superimposes the entire movie, you don’t want clips to shift."
    *They got that right, but they don't say anything about how to prevent it.
    This next makes no sense at all:
    "To shift specific clips togather, press the Alt key as you insert.  At a time, you can shift specific clips simultaneously on a maximum of two tracks.  These include the track receiving the insertion and the track containing the linked audio or video (if any). The affected tracks shift together, remaining aligned. The clips on other tracks are unaffected."
    *There is no mention of how to specify what clips would be shifted, or not.
    I'm not dealing with linked clips.  And they tell me how to shift clips (sort of) but nothing about how to stop clips from being cut up and shifted.  This all makes it very hard to create a coordinated product.
    Any suggestions or solutions will be much appreciated.

    Thanks, ATR,
    I wll try this--but I still am unclear on how to do what the Manual says is possible: select clips on another track that WILL be moved, if I so desire, so as to remain synched to the main Video track.
    UPDATE:
    In the case of inserting Freeze Frame, I just tried both Ctrl method and Alt method, and neither worked.
    1. Put Video on Vid1 track
    2. Put Music on Sound Track
    3. Ran a few seconds of Vid
    4. Stopped Vid, selected Freeze Frame
    5. Held down Ctrl key while clicking "Insert in Movie"  also tried with holding down Alt key.
    Result: a 3 second still was inserted int the Vid1 track.  A corresponding gap was created in the Sound Track.
    6. Slid the final part of the Sound Track to the left along the timeline to re-connect it to the next segment created by the above process.
    Result: the video following the final Freeze Frame was pushed to the right end of  Video1 track.
    7. Slid the Sound Track all the way to the left.
    Result: the entire Video 1 Track contents were pushed to the right and divided in pieces.
    I documented each step with screen shots which I can send if you want them and if I can figure out how to do it.
    UPDATE #2
    In the case of inserting a video clip to the Timeline, I just tried both Ctrl method and Alt method, and neither worked.
    1. Locate video in Project Assets
    2a. R click video in Project Assets (pull-down menu appears), hold down Ctrl, click Insert to Timeline.
    Result: Vid clip is inserted on Video 1 track, Sound Track is separated with a corresponding gap.
    2b.  R click video in Project Assets (pull-down menu appears), push Alt
    Result: pull-down menu disappears as soon as Alt is pushed down.
    I can stil drag the Vid clip but it's one more manual step...I love shortcuts!!

  • I loose both sound tracks of the last chapter when burning a movie to a disc in iDVD

    I loose both sound tracks in the last chapter when I burn a project to a disc in iDVD. The sound tracks are there if I play the movie in iDVD before burning to disc, but as soon as I try turn burn to disc the original sound track & the sound track imported from iTunes disappears in the majority of the last chapter.
    I'am using the latest version of iMovie & IDVD.  The project in iDVD is listed as 96 minutes & 3.9GB & I'am using an LG single sided DVD 120 Min 4.7GB
    Any help will be appreciated.
    Mike          (Australia)

    Hi
    May be something here.
    No audio on DVD disc.
    Most common origin.
    1. Imported audio from iTunes.
    • In iTunes copy out as an Audio-CD .aiff (Same as played on standard Stereo CD - no .mp3)
    • Use this in Your movie project
    2. Low - Free Space on Start-up/Boot/Internal/Mac OS Hard disk makes it hard for iMovie to work as intended.
    Down to 1.3 GB and it doesn’t work - especially audio don’t migrate over to Media Browser
    (iM’08 & 09)
    3. Material in iMovie’08 & 09 - Shared to Media Browser and here selected as Large
    large.m4v. It silenced out this project in iDVD. By making a slight alteration - provoking it to ask for a new Share/Publish to Media Browser and here selecting 640x480 - and audio was back when a new iDVD project was created including this movie.
    Minuscular - - 176x144
    Mobile - - - - - 480x360
    Medium - - - - 640x480
    Large - - - - - - 720x540    960x540
    HD - - - - - - - - 1280x720
    4. Strange audio formats like .mp3, .avi etc.
    • Change them to .aiff. Use an audio editor like Audacity (free)
    5. Main audio is set to off in System Preferences - Does this by it self - Don’t know why
    Cheque Audio-Out resp. Audio-In
    6. Ed Hanna
    Had the same problem; some Googling around gave me a kludgy, but effective fix
    Downgrade Perian from recent versions back to version 1.0.
    That worked for me, and so far I haven't encountered any deficiencies — except it takes more advanced versions of Perian to enable QuickTime to handle subtitles in .srt format — that I have noticed.
    7. GarageBand fix.
    In this set audio to 44.1 kHz (Klaus1 suggestion)
    (if this don’t work try 48 kHz - me guessing)
    Before burning the DVD.
    • Do a DiskImage (File menu and down)
    • Double click on the .img file
    • Test it with Apple DVD-player
    If it’s OK then make Your DVD.
    Burn at x1 speed.... (or x4)
    • In iDVD 08 - or - 09
    • Burn from DiskImage with Apple’s Disk Utilities application
    • OR burn with Roxio Toast™ if You got it
    Yours Bengt W

  • Deleting sound track only in FCE 4.1

    I have AVCHD video and sound track of a musician - I wish to delete just the sound track portion as I have a CD version to synch with the video portion of the same piece of music. When I try to delete as it is suggested in the manual  (i.e. Delete Empty Track) - nothing happens. I can silence the sound track by clicking the radio buttons but seemingly not delete it. Is it possible to do what I want in FCE 4.1 please? I have also tried "disconnecting" A1 and A2 and that does not work either.
    Many thanks

    Two ways: don't edit them into the timeline. Click in the patch panel on the buttons connecting a1 to A1 and a2 to A2. Or if the clips are already in the timeline, hold the Option key and click on the audio track to select it separate. When it's selected press the delete key.

  • TS3789 When I play movies on my apple tv I can hear music, sound effects - but zero dialog or voice overs?  What gives?

    When I play movies on my apple tv I can hear music, sound effects but no dialog from characters - no voices

    Push and hold the select button on the remote while the content is playing.  You should get an audio options menu.  Guessing you selected one of the the secondary audio track options by mistake somewhere.

  • Final sound track issue

    Using Pre 11, I have completed a wide screen project and exported it to DVD, using suggested AVCHD settings (.m2ts @ 1920-1080i - 30fps)  The final video quality is excellent as far as the images and video tracks go, when viewed on a 60" TV screen.  There is an issue with the actual DVD starting but it eventually works (my next problem to solve)
    Anyway, the sound track (music) plays thru all 5 speakers during playback on a Bluray player and therefore the sound is not very good in comparison to what a 2 channel stereo track, typical for music would be, or the playback in the Elements edit window.  It looks and sounds great on a computer that is only stereo, both within Elements and the exported clips to files. 
    Is there a way to export the video to a DVD this quality, but retain the 2 channel stereo playback?
    Or, is the only option to change sound output settings in the Bluray player?
    Music source within Elements are Mp3 converted to .wav prior to import.

    P1965
    Thanks for the reply and glad for the opportunity to clarify my view of the Premiere Elements 5.1 situation.
    All the burn to of Premiere Elements are for audio as Dolby Digital Stereo.
    However, when you get to export to file save to computer hard drive, things can get interesting. You can
    find a few opportunities to export certain files with 5.1 channel audio, but not Dolby Digital 5.1 channel.
    In the course of looking into Premiere Elements 5.1 channel opportunities, I ran across a way to import a source
    with Stereo and export it as 5.1 channel, not just go from 5.1 channel source to 5.1 channel export file.
    http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/04/pe11-exporting-1080p50-or-1080p60-file.html
    http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/07/pe11-exporting-1080p25-or-1080p30-file.html
    http://www.atr935.blogspot.com/2013/10/pe12-exporting-720p50-or-720p60-file.html
    All sorts of Premiere Elements and 5.1 considerations in the above.
    ATR

  • How to move sound track with video to another drive

    If I want to work on a project on another Mac, I copy the iMovie Events and Projects folders to a portable drive, then drag them into the correct folders of the other Mac. (Not sure if this is the best way, but it works.) But the sound track is missing if I don't have the same songs in that Mac's iTunes. What's the best way to keep the song with the project when I transfer to another Mac?

    I tried the Consolidate command, and I see how it works, copying the events or clips to another >drive. But how does the music track get transferred? I don't see it in the copied folder.
    If you followed the instructions, the music track is there. It is probably in the Project file. If you right click on the RCPROJECT file, select "Show Package Contents" and see if you can spot it.
    If I consolidate from one computer to a portable drive, what happens when I plug the portable >drive into another computer? Does iMovie just see the project and events on the external drive? Or >do I have to drag them to the new computer's drive? What about the music tracks? Do I have to >import them into the other computer's iTunes?
    Yes, iMovie sees the external drive, and you can work on your movie. If you prefer, you could drag the RCPROJECT file to the Movies/iMovie Events Folder and then run the Consolidate command again to move everything to the new computer, but you really don't need to. It should work fine on the external drive.
    The external drive must be formatted as Mac OX Extended (journaled)

  • HELP! Why is the music sounding distorted

    Hi there, so i put on all music on the ipod, and two days later it is sounding all distorted and garbled, do i have to take it all off and start again? This ipod nano sure has its imperfections...thanx

    The equalizer might be on.
    On the nano, even if the equalizer is set to off in the iPod settings, the equalizer setting in iTunes is used. If you have a track in iTunes with a custom EQ set to, say, "rock" the iPod will use rock. It may sound fine though the computer speakers but not so good though the earbuds.
    Not all iPods are consistent about how they use the per track EQ settings from iTunes. On a 5G iPod, for example, setting the EQ on the iPod to off means it plays everything flat.
    You could try setting the EQ on the iPod nano to "flat" while the song in question is playing. If that clears it up you should set that song to use a flat EQ in iTunes. Then it will always play like that on the nano.
    Most modern music doesn't need equalization and adding it usually makes music sound distorted and garbled.

  • Failed to get procs for sound track -2126

    What is the meaning of the error message of "Failed to get procs for sound track -2126"? I am attempting to convert a Quicktime movie file that uses Sorenson Video & QDesign Music 2 codecs.

    Certainly someone must know the meaning for this error message. Is there a list of error messages for compressor and QT??

  • Failed to get pprocs for sound track -2126

    What is the meaning of the error message of "Failed to get procs for sound track -2126"? I am attempting to convert a Quicktime movie file that uses Sorenson Video & QDesign Music 2 codecs.

    You've got to give us a little bit more to go on.
    What, exactly, are you doing? Converting your Sorenson Video 3-codec QT file in Compressor? What version of Compressor? What happens if you try this same thing in QT Pro?

  • My ipod touch don´t have much sound on musics (i already go to settings- music-sound limit unlock), i need more power sound for using ipod to teach fitness classes what can i do!?

    My ipod touch don´t have much sound on music tracks (i already go to settings-music-sound limit unlock), i really need more power sound for using ipod to teach fitness classes what can i do!?

    I imagine that... a limit of sound because ears problems understand that...but in my case i need power i´m not buying a better surround for the gym (the owner must do, but everyone use cd´s and i not see me record cd´s again) ...its the only problem for this iPod to be perfect.... I´m in Portugal, by the way!!! and thanks again for you helping!!

Maybe you are looking for