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More than one sound effect

I tried looking elsewhere for an answer (as well as experimenting) but I'm stumped.

My middle school kids are adding sound effects to a dramatic scene... something I have them do every year... but some of them want to add 2 sounds to the same portion of the scene. Like a dramatic beat from the "textures" category and during the time "glass breaking".

In imovie 6, there were two audio tracks.

I realize there's no timeline anymore, so is there a way to have sound effects play at once?

(I even looked into exporting the project back to imovie 6, but a 1 minute scene took 7 minutes to export, followed by 2 minutes to import into the old imovie.)

Thanks

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 25, 2008 8:16 AM

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Sep 25, 2008 8:56 AM in response to adamf612

but some of them want to add 2 sounds to the same portion of the scene. Like a dramatic beat from the "textures" category and during the time "glass breaking"... In imovie 6, there were two audio tracks... I realize there's no timeline anymore, so is there a way to have sound effects play at once?
Not a problem from within iMovie '08. While iMovie will "flatten" all audio tracks down to a single stereo track, you can have background music, the movie clip audio, a voiceover, and several (have not attempted to see if limit is different than QT structure track limit) overlapped sound effects. To overlap the sound effects, "pin" them to a clip instead of placing them in the background. Added sound effects pinned to the clips will "stack" as ribbons which can be individually selected in order to adjust volume, slide them, set start and end points, add fades, etc.

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More than one sound effect

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