Apple Training Series: iLife ’09

Adding Audio 189

Although the tasteful use of select transitions can make your show

look more professional, overusing such effects or, worse, mixing many dif-

ferent types, tends to have the opposite effect.

Adding Audio

Music and sound effects are incredibly powerful tools for improving your movie.

Simply putting the right song behind a collection of clips transforms it, uniting

the shots and giving the whole movie a consistent tone. Of course, choosing the

wrong music can do an equal amount of damage, so choose wisely.

In iMovie, you can access all the music in your iTunes library, as well as any

music you may have created in GarageBand. F ...