Q: Fade in Fade out music

It's not that complicated at all. At the beginning and ending of the Audio clips there is button that you just drag for the length of fade in, fade out that you want.

Further to Bruce's explanation, see this iMovie 10 Help Topic regarding "Adjust Volume". The topic gives a full rundown on how to adjust audio, including using key frames and fading in and out.

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3b5ded23e

Great to see that all the audio adjustments (plus more) from iMovie '11 have been included in the new iMovie (version 10; iMovie 2013).

John

But if you want to make a 30 second movie, and your music is 4:45 this doesn't apply. iMovie used to fade it out for you to go with your clip length.

Paul-z wrote:

 

But if you want to make a 30 second movie, and your music is 4:45 this doesn't apply. iMovie used to fade it out for you to go with your clip length.

iMovie 10 does have a setting that automatically trims the background music so that the music ends when the video clips end. See this iMovie 10 Help topic -

Customize movie settings -

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov4e66c1a8b

Particularly see the last dot point in paragraph 3, which reads:

• To automatically trim background music to fit the length of your movie: Select the “Trim background music” checkbox.

John

Thanks, I'll check for that.

Is there a way to fade in and fade out music natively in Keynote?

It appears from this thread that I could make an imovie clip and then use it as the media to import into a keynote presentation. Preference would to not do so.

I don't have that button. 

The button appears when you place the pointer over a clip. When the pointer is then positioned directly over the button, a left and right arrowhead appears. Click on the button and drag inwards to fade the audio, or outwards to reduce the fade duration.

Note that if you have a transition between two clips, the fade buttons do not appear. Transitions will place an automatic fade (crossfade) to the audio on both clips. However, if you delete the transition, you can then perform a manual fade (as I described), then reinsert the transition. If preferred, after deleting a transition you can reinstate the portion of each clip used in the transition. Just drag the ends of the clips outwards. If you reach the end of the available media for either clip, a vertical red line appears at the edge of the clip end.

John

Can anyone on this thread tell me why my audio is just a thin green strip? I would love to fade in the volume at the beginning of the audio but it doesn't have the node to adjust that. Double-clicking opens the Clip Trimmer.

This is a royalty free classical song that I dropped into the project. I also put it into iTunes and imported it into the project but that didn't seem to make a difference.

At the far right under the Viewer you will see a button alongside the zoom slider. Placing the pointer over this button will reveal its purpose as "Adjust thumbnail appearance". Click on the button and a pop-up window will appear. Check (tick) the box labelled "Audio: Show Waveforms".

See screenshot below:

You should now be able to fade the audio using the fade buttons at each end of the audio clip (as described in one of my earlier posts).

John

Message was edited by: John Cogdell

That solved my problem. Thank you so much!

mad_biscuit wrote:

 

That solved my problem. Thank you so much!

Glad to help. Some of these things are a little difficult to find in the new iMovie!

John

I seem to recall in HD6 you could effect how fast or slow you wanted the fade to happen, by picking where on the audio timeline you wanted that to happe.  How do you do this in iMovie 10??  If I drag the fade "button" it fades in/out @ a preset "time"