Using Garageband to record soundtrack for iMovie

Here's a noob question....
I want to record a musical performance using imovie and Garageband (with audio interface). How do I effectively put the audio recording together with the video portion of the performance, that way, there is a good digital recording of the performance synced with the video portion....

"Recording in iMovie" means using your internal camera or an iSight - is that what you want to do? Or do you want to use a video cam?
The reason I'm asking: I'm not sure if iMovie can record through the internal mic while GB is using the USB or Firewire port - plus it's quite a load on the computer to do these two recordings at once. But anyway - it's pretty easy to align sounds in iMovie. If you record the video silent, make sure you have a video/audio sync signal like clapping your hands. If you have audio on your video track, it's very easy to sync the recordings - nudge the track with the GB audio until the reverb effect vanishes.

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Hi Alexey:
Have you ever been to
www.freeplaymusic.com ?
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Hello.
I've ben using GB to record audio, specifically acoustic guitar, just a few tracks, and was wondering if I would gain much in terms of actual audio quality if I decided to take a stab and learn basics of STP?
Just poking around the STP interface has my head spinning, but I think I see how it basically works.
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Thanks NLEdit.
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- Is there a URL that explains in detail each of garage bands effects/audio unit effects on the sound track?
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- in post production, I am use to doing the following for sound track:
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Some have garage band effects have corresponding names, like compression. But, is there a noise reduction?
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This might be helpful: http://comtechlab.iupui.edu/tutorialsfolder/tutorials.html
No URL that explains the effects in depth to my knowledge, maybe one of the books, like Missing Manual or the Apple Certified when it comes out.
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