Mute background track so you can hear video clip sound?

Using iMovie '11, on a project with mixed stills and video, I want to mute the background music I have added while the video clips are playing so you can hear the audio on the clip and them=n bring the volume back up for the still shots. I can see how to mute the video, but not in the direction that I want.
Thanks

You can use the ducking feature to achieve this. You select your video clip and open the Inspector to the Audio Tab. Then apply ducking. Ducking will diminish all other clips except this one by the percentage that you specify.
Good Tutorial Here.
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/imovie08.html#audioclips

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If you double-click on the soundtrack you can open it up in the inspector tab and lower the soundtrack so that you can hear the audio from the video clip.
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DavidBacon wrote:
Anyway, the overall, larger issue for me is the inability I have to choose and get non-Garageband instruments (largely orchestral) to play the Midi events given on various tracks. If my guess is correct then technically, orchestral instruments not offered in the standard Logic Pro 8 Garageband Mixer channel menu are referred to as external Midi sampled instruments - still, IMHO the process is not clearly spelled out in the User Manual. The simple step by step process whereby a non-Garage band instrument, say an orchestral instrument, is placed in a channel replete with Midi event (notes) waiting to be played should be easy, logical and given in a simple to follow format, but is not.
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David, you understand that this is professional software and is not necessarily meant to be easy but is in fact designed to give the professional user as many choices as possible, that's why it's in the Pro Apps section. You WILL need to learn about buses, GM Devices, Audio Bins, Libraries...etc..etc if you intend to use Logic.
That said, you are looking in the wrong place in the channel strip.
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Go here:
http://documentation.apple.com/en/logicpro/
Open "Exploring Logic Pro" (a short PDF Document). Pay special attention to chapter 3. Also pay special attention to the included graphics of the channel strips.
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