Subtitles of the Movie

I'm now going to show you how to construct a quite complex video clip with no less then 5 different audio clips built into it. The whole sequence is only 30 seconds long and I'm going to use the original soundtrack, which has been replaced by another soundtrack, a music track, a voice over, and two audio special effects, as I said quite complex. So let's get started. First, let's look at the video clip, which was short as a crew ship entered Venice. I'll play the clips so you can listen to the original sound track. As you can hear, there's a Tannoy System blasting away and ruining the mood I want to create. So, I'm going to turn off this soundtrack by deselecting the checkmark here. This effectively removes the sound from the whole of this track. However, I do want some original sound, otherwise, I might loose some of the atmosphere of the ship. I have a second clip here, which does not have the annoying Tannoy on it. So, I'm going to extract the audio from this clip. I'll go to the advance menu and select extract audio clip or I could click on the Apple key and the letter J to achieve the same thing. Remember keyboard shortcuts save a lot of time. The sound clip now appears on track 1. I'll delete the video part of it because I do not need it anymore. I'm going to move this sound clip to the start of the timeline to be insync with the original video clip. I'll now trim it and lock it to the video clip by going to the advance menu and selecting lock audio. I'm going to rename this clip and add a fade in of two seconds to coincide with the transition fade from black with which I started the sequence. I've already recorded a nice romantic piece of music to use with this clip. I stored it with all of the other audio files I'm going to use in the project folder. First, I'll set the play head at the beginning of the timeline, now I'll go to the file menu and select import file. I'll find the file I need in the project folder and then click on the import button. Notice, the music clip appears on track 2 and how the timeline is expanded to accommodate the whole song. I'll trim the clip by splitting it and deleting the unwanted portion. I'll now add a fade up of 2 seconds at the beginning and lock it into the video clip here. Our project now has a video clip, a new soundtrack, and a music clip in it. So, let's listen to how they sound together. Well, it's obvious that the ships sound is to loud. So, I'll reduce the volume by moving the slider here down to about one-third of its length. I only want a hint of the ship's noise in the background. Let's check out the changes. That's okay. I'd now like to add a little more atmosphere to the soundtrack. So, I'm going to add the noise of some seagulls to the sequence. I'll place the play head further down the timeline, so as to give myself some working room to edit the imported clip. This time, I'm going to import the audio clip by clicking on the Apple key and the letter I to access the import window. I'll select to the seagull's file from the project folder and click on the import button. The clip appears on the timeline in track 2. I'm now going to trim this clip to about 10 seconds. Notice that the time indicator will change as I move the play head and that's a great help in timing the length of the edit. I'll now split the clip and delete the unwanted portion and I'll set the volume to about one-third and add a fade in at the beginning. I'm now going to move the edited clip to track 1 at the start of the sequence and lock it into place. Notice it'll sit quite happily on top of the soundtrack and the different colors mean that you can select either clip if you need to edit them further. Let's listen to how this is all coming together. Well, that's not to bad. I'm now going to place the play head here before I import a short voice over. I'll use exactly the same method I did last time, that is using the keyboard shortcut Apple key and the letter I. After I've selected the file and it's intro and clicked on the import button, the voice over appears on the timeline. I'm now going to introduce you to a really neat feature in iMovie. It's called the ghost play head. I need to place the play head very carefully. So, I can position the voice over accurately. I'll put it here and fine tune the placement by using the arrow keys to move it a frame at a time. Now, I want to be sure I do not loose my place when I select the audio clip to move it. Notice, although the play head moves to the start of the voice over clip, a ghost play head remains at the original spot on the timeline. I know it's a little difficult to see. You can just see the ghost play head here as I move the clip and approach it. I can now move the voice over clip, so it snaps into the ghost play head. That's a really big help. Now, I'll lock the clip in here. Let's see how that sounds. Oh! Dear, the music is now much to loud and I need to reduce it's volume just where it over laps the voice over, this is how we do it. First, I'll move the play head to the start of the voice over clip. Then, I'm going to select the music clip and split it by using the keyboard shortcut the Apple key and the letter T. Now, I have two music clips. I'm going to lock the second clip in place. Now, I'll repeat the process by moving the play head to the end of the voice over clip and splitting the music track once again. Now, I have three music clips. I'll select just the middle piece, which overlaps the voice over and reduces it's volume to about one-third. Let's check the result. "On this beautiful September morning, our crew ship entered Venice, undoubtedly the most romantic city in the world". That appears to be okay. Finally, I want to add one more audio special effect. This time it's of a bell ringing out over marks square. I'll reset the player head to give me a little working room and import the file as I did before. I'm going to reduce the volume of the clip to one-third and move it to the track so that it bucks up against the voice over clip. Now, I'll trim the clip by moving the end crop triangle to line-up with the end of the video clip. Lastly, I'll add a fade out to this clip. Everything is now finished. So, let's check it out. "On this beautiful September morning, our crew ship entered Venice undoubtedly the most romantic city in the world." The video you see may be a little jerky, but I hope the sound is good enough to let you hear what can be achieved when using audio in iMovie.