Adding multiple music tracks to a photo slideshow

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Adding multiple music tracks to a photo slideshow

Hi guys,

I have a photo slideshow of over 100 photos and would like to add more than 1 music track. I am having difficulty in adding a 2nd audio file after I have already used the beat marker on the first track to put my photos in sync with the music.

Is it best to add the tracks onto the clip/photos themselves or as a project track?

Any info on how to add multiple tracks to a project or clips would be great 🙂

Many thanks.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 15, 2011 9:29 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 22, 2011 4:43 PM in response to cheekyage

I'm just finishing up a 20 minute slide show for my son's 5th grade graduation (tomorrow!) and I've been up the learning curve. What I did was add the song and pin it to the first photo. You can add a song 2 ways - You want it to surround the video/photos. When you drag it to the upper left, it you will notice it's shaded green around the photos. If you hover near the gear symbol, you will get a grabby hand to move it. Drag it to a photo and it will turn purple and be pinned to that image. For the next song, you will also drag it to the upper left and it will be green (depending on if your other song is at the very beginning of your project). Then drag it to the image to which you want it attached. This gets buggy and tedious when you're doing a long video. But I liked this method better than dragging the audio and seeing a green bar at the bottom, because I always accidentaly moved it around and messed myself up. Hope that helps!

j

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Answer 2

Vitu

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Jun 22, 2011 3:28 PM in response to cheekyage

How about joining the songs on an external audio editor, saving it as aiff (so you won't loose quality) and dragging it to iMovie to beat mark? You'll probably loose the work you've done so far, but I have not found another way around this.

Does this helps?

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