fading in & out levels

Hi, David,

I assume that you are talking about adjusting fade in audio clips.

There are 3 ways to adjust audio fade-in and fade-out levels in audio clips.

1. You can position your cursor over the audio portion of a video clip, or over an added audio clip, and slide the fade handles (little blue circles) that appear at the beginning and end of a clip to adjust fade in and fade out.

2. You can Option-click at intervals along the horizontal volume adjustment line that runs horizontally through a clip, to set little adjustment handles that you can drag up or down to control sound levels and create custom fades.

3. You can select the audio clip and click on the loudspeaker icon in the toolbar in the upper right of your screen, and then check the box that says "lower volume level of other clips". This is used to lower the sound volume of a background audio clip so that it doesn't drown out the embedded sound in the video clip.

-- Rich

First, you need to make sure that "show wave forms" is enabled. To do that, click on the Settings button on the right hand side of your screen, just above the time line. In the box that appears, verify that the box that says "Audio: Show Wave Forms" is checked.

Then look at the green audio track. You will see a horizontal line across the middle of the clip that controls the volume. If you put your cursor on the line, your cursor will morph into a different shape, and while pressing your track pad or mouse you can move the line up and down with your cursor to raise and lower the volume. You can also place your cursor on the line and click on it with your track pad or mouse while holding down the Option key, and that will place a little adjustment marker (keyframe) on the line. You can place several of them in a row and use them to raise or lower the line (volume) at by moving each keyframe up or down with your cursor.

Here's a help link that will explain it in more detail:

http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.1/#/mov3b5ded23e

-- Rich

You are very welcome. 🙂

-- Rich