Add together songs and other sound files to your iMovie projection

Add songs from your music library in the Music app, and add together other audio files stored on your device, in iCloud Bulldoze, or in another location.

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    iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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iMovie can access songs from your music library in the Music app on your device, too as any audio files stored on your device, in iCloud Drive, or in another location

Add songs from your music library

You can add songs from your music library that yous've downloaded to the Music app on your device, also as songs and other sound files that take been synced to your device using the Music app on your Mac.

  1. With your project open in the iMovie timeline, tap the Add Media button.
  2. Tap Sound, tap My Music, and so tap a category to scan songs.
    iMovie for iPad insert Audio from My Music screen
  3. Tap a song to preview it. If a vocal is dimmed, locate the song in the Music app, then tap the Download button for the song to download it to your device.  If you can't find a particular song that yous want to use, learn more well-nigh why it might non be available.
  4. To add the song to your project, tap the Add Audio button  next to a vocal. iMovie automatically places the song at the beginning of the project and automatically fits it to the length of the projection.

You tin can change the length the song like you would any other clip. You can also utilize more than than ane song in a projection. For example, if you lot desire to change the mood of the music over the course of your flick, you tin can shorten the first song in the timeline, so identify a unlike song after the beginning vocal.

Add other audio files

You can add audio files like M4A, MP4, MP3, WAV, and AIFF files stored on your device, in iCloud Drive, or in some other location.

  1. If the audio file you want to add is less than a minute long, scroll the timeline in your iMovie project and then that the playhead (the white vertical line) appears where you want to add together the audio file.
  2. Tap the Add Media button, so tap Files to scan files in iCloud Bulldoze or other locations.
  3. Tap a file to add it to your projection.

If you lot add an audio file that's longer than one minute long, it behaves like a song in your projection. Files less than one minute long appear where yous placed the playhead.

Add together songs or other sound files on Mac

In iMovie for Mac, you can apply the iMovie media browser to import songs from your music library in the Music app. You tin too elevate audio files right into your timeline from the Finder.

Add songs or other audio files using the media browser

Yous tin can use the media browser in iMovie to add songs that y'all've downloaded to the music library on your Mac, as well as songs and other audio files that you've added to your music library.

  1. With your project open, click Sound at the tiptop of the window, and then click Music in the Libraries list, and then scan selections. If you lot tin can't find a particular song, learn more than about why information technology might not exist available.
  2. To preview a vocal, click the play push button adjacent to each song. Yous can also select a song, click in the waveform at the top of the media browser, then press the Spacebar to preview.
  3. When yous've plant the song you like, drag it from the media browser to the timeline:

If you only want to employ a part of the song, select a range in the waveform at the height of the browser so the range has a yellow edge, then drag the range to the timeline. You can shorten or extend a range selection by dragging either side of it.

Drag audio files into the iMovie projection timeline

You can drag audio files like M4A, MP4, MP3, WAV, and AIFF files from the Finder right into the timeline of your iMovie project. Drag files to the music well for background music, or elevate the file under a detail clip to attach the audio file to the video clip.

If you tin can't access a song in iMovie

If your Music library includes protected files, they are unavailable and do non announced in the browser.

To use a song you've purchased from the iTunes Store in your projection, you accept to be the copyright holder of the song or have express permission from the copyright holder. For more than information almost using content in iMovie run across the iMovie software license agreement by choosing iMovie > About iMovie, then click License Agreement.

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