| You can't capture every sound when you're shootingthe laser blasts in Star Wars weren't real, for example (they were actually recordings of wrenches striking power cables). Sometimes you need ready-made sound effects (many are included with iMovie), or you can even create your own. To add a sound effect to your movie: 1. | Switch to the Media pane and click the Audio button. | 2. | At the top of the pane, choose a sound effects collection (Figure 10.26). Figure 10.26. iMovie includes a number of common sound effects that you can add to your movie. | 3. | Double-click an effect's name to preview it, or select an effect and click the Play button. | 4. | Drag the effect you want to the Timeline Viewer and drop it into one of the audio tracks (Figure 10.27). Figure 10.27. A sound effect appears in the Timeline like any other audio clip. You can edit sound effects just as you can any other audio clip in iMovie. |
To add new sound effects to iMovie: 1. | Quit iMovie. | 2. | Make sure the sound file is in the AIFF or MP3 format. | 3. | Copy the sound file to [Home]/Library/iMovie/Sound Effects. | 4. | Launch iMovie. The sound is now listed in the iMovie Sound Effects list. |
Tips | | Kudos to Apple's engineers: iMovie automatically displays the Timeline Viewer when you start dragging a sound effect. Don't go overboard with adding sound effects to iMovie's library: the more items, the longer it takes iMovie to launch.
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