
Click on that and now you can adjust the volume. You could select this and then you have some things you can do right here. So whether it is here at the bottom or whether it's attached to a clip it's all the same. Now let's talk about adjusting the music now that you have it in your project. You could drag and drop into the timeline or into the background music track at the bottom. Maybe it is a track you recorded yourself. Now most of the stuff you have here probably has copyright issues and I'll talk about that later. So if you're missing songs it is either they are Apple Music or they are part of the iCloud Music Streaming part of Apple Music even though you brought them in. But if I downloaded it using that down arrow it will be local and then it would appear here.
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But say this was a song that was part of iTunes Match or Apple Music's iCloud Music feature you would see a little download button meaning it's not local. It also won't include songs that if you're using Apple Music or iTunes Match they are being streamed even though you ripped them from CD's or got them some other way unless you download them. It will not include Apple Music streaming songs. So stuff that I've ripped from CD's or stuff that I've purchased somehow or created myself as files and brought them into the Music App and are now in my Music Library. Now it includes music that is in my Library. So if we go to the Music App you can see this is what I have in my Library there. You can put it here or you can drag it down to the bottom there.Īnother place you can get music from is by clicking here. You can take it and simply drag it in just the same way you dragged a file from the Finder. You can select any of these and see what is music. I've got some stuff from older versions of iMovie and Sound Effects and all of that. So you can go here and see what you have. If you go, in iMovie, to Audio & Video here and you click on Sound Effects you can look through a list of sound effects. Well, iMovie comes with some music and so does other Apple software. It's an audio file sitting on your hard drive and you want to bring it in. That's, of course, assuming you have a piece of music ready. Maybe this is a sound effect or spoken audio. I'm going to use the same one here and I could attach a second clip and you could see I've got two here. Also if the clip is attached to a track I could add more. If I wanted to I could add another clip here. Once it is in there I can still adjust its starting point, like that. You can drag right from the Finder into that area or I can drag this down there and now this is in a special track that is just meant for background music. Now another place that you could drag music to is here at the bottom. But if I drag the clip notice that the music comes along with it. I can drag it to readjust where it starts.

So in this case this is now attached to the clip and the music starts right at that point in the clip. If I drag it in here and I leave it there you could see how it attaches to a clip. I could drag right from the Finder into the project. I don't have to import it in first or do anything special. So I've got a file here, just sitting on the Desktop, and I can drag and drop that into the project. One place I can get these from is by using a file. Just some clips that I placed in and let's say I want to add some background music to them. Where do you get the music from? Once you add it how can you adjust it and what are the technical and legal challenges having music in your iMovie project.įirst let's look at how you get some music into your iMovie project.

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Let me show you how to add music to your projects in iMovie.

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