Simultaneous Audio Tracks?

Currently making a video... looking to have two audio clips playing at once - one would be a conversation clip, the other being a soft music track....
Help!!

Currently making a video... looking to have two audio clips playing at once - one would be a conversation clip, the other being a soft music track....
If you are asking if it is possible to do this, then the answer is yes. Simply add an additional track either to the background or to the video clip itself. While you can only add one "background audio layer" whose duration may cover several video clips using iMovie '08, you can have multiple audio layers associated with individual video clips. Your major problem will likely be the setting of relative volumes to each such layer. If multiply background audio layers are required, custom "rubber band ducking" at specific points within a clip/background layer, equalization, echo, reverberation, or other such special effects are required, you may prefer to do this in GarageBand.

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welcome finecut to the  boards of discssions ...
nope.
iM handles the two stereo-channels as "one track", and offers 3 tracks of stereo.. (the one inside the video, 2 additional tracks...)
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Provide a Logic feedback
http://www.apple.com/feedback/logicpro.html!
THIS IS A LOGIC 8 BUG!!! BIGGEST SERIOUS BUG!
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Thank you so much for remember me this..
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