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I typically edit my videos in iMovie, but now I’m starting to use Final Cut Pro. I have my video, all edited, except that I need to add a little background music.
In order to add the iMovie theme music do I have to export the project, then upload it into iMovie add the music and then share to YouTube?
or is there a more efficient way of doing this?
I don't use iMovie, so I could be wrong about this.
If I understand correctly, there is some "Theme Music" that is available in iMovie but not FCP - is this it?
If all you want is to add some of this to your film, you could probably do as you say, export from FCP and finish the work in iMovie; or maybe you could export from iMovie a movie file containing the music you want, and add that to your FCP project.
Which iMovie music do you mean? The FCP jingles are available in FCP, but the theme music used in the trailers isn’t. You could export a trailer from iMovie and bring the files into FCP and just use the music.
If you have the stomach for it:
Right click on iMovie in the Applications folder and Show Package Contents.
Double click on Contents to open it.
Double click on the Resources folder.
Find: iMovie Theme Music — right click on it and find and select the option to Copy "iMovie Theme Music".
Close iMovie package folder.
Find a disk location you want to save the music then go to the Edit Menu and Paste Item (or type command-V).
Then you can import the individual files into Final Cut.
What I like to do is create an Event for music resources I import. Right click on the (music) Event and select New Keyword Collection. In this case, I just used "iMovie Theme Music", then all I do is drag the folder containing all the theme music files and drop it on the keyword collection label. All the music is added to the music resources event and isolated by the keyword collection when it is selected. (It's much easier than individually importing each file and then trying to organize them.)
An even easier way is to just string the theme music into an iMovie project, then do File->Send Movie to Final Cut Pro.
Imovie Theme Music - Final Cut Pro X
