Chapter 10. Working with Audio in iMovie

Lesson Files

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Time

This lesson takes approximately 60 minutes to complete.

Goals

Normalize clip volumes to ensure consistency

Learn how to use audio ducking for automatic track mixing

Add sound effects to your project

Stack and mix multiple audio tracks for rich audio results

Learn how to mix and fade tracks

Work with background music and tracks in iMovie

Up until now, you’ve focused on creating a movie that looks great, delivers a strong and clear narrative or message, and has tight, clean edits that go virtually unnoticed. To finish your movie as professionally as possible, you need to make ...

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