Add songs and other audio files to your iMovie project

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

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    iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact

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Add together songs and other audio files on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

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

Add songs from your music library

You tin can add songs from your music library that y'all've downloaded to the Music app on your device, as well as songs and other audio 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 together Media button.
  2. Tap Sound, tap My Music, so tap a category to browse songs.
    iMovie for iPad insert Audio from My Music screen
  3. Tap a vocal to preview it. If a song is dimmed, locate the song in the Music app, then tap the Download push button for the song to download it to your device.  If you can't observe a particular vocal that yous want to use, learn more virtually why it might not exist available.
  4. To add the song to your project, tap the Add Audio button  next to a song. iMovie automatically places the song at the commencement of the project and automatically fits it to the length of the project.

You can change the length the song similar yous would any other clip. Yous tin besides use more than one song in a project. For example, if you lot want to alter the mood of the music over the form of your picture, y'all can shorten the first vocal in the timeline, then identify a different song after the first song.

Add other audio files

You tin add together audio files like M4A, MP4, MP3, WAV, and AIFF files stored on your device, in iCloud Bulldoze, or in another location.

  1. If the sound file you lot want to add together is less than a minute long, scroll the timeline in your iMovie projection so that the playhead (the white vertical line) appears where you want to add the audio file.
  2. Tap the Add Media button, then tap Files to scan files in iCloud Drive 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 similar a vocal in your project. Files less than i minute long announced where you placed the playhead.

Add songs or other audio files on Mac

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

Add songs or other sound files using the media browser

You can use the media browser in iMovie to add together songs that y'all've downloaded to the music library on your Mac, likewise as songs and other sound files that you've added to your music library.

  1. With your project open up, click Audio at the elevation of the window, then click Music in the Libraries list, and then browse selections. If you can't find a particular song, larn more most why it might non be bachelor.
  2. To preview a song, click the play button side by side to each song. You can also select a song, click in the waveform at the top of the media browser, then printing the Spacebar to preview.
  3. When y'all've constitute the vocal yous like, drag information technology from the media browser to the timeline:

If yous only want to use a part of the vocal, select a range in the waveform at the top of the browser so the range has a yellow border, so elevate 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 project timeline

Yous can elevate sound files like M4A, MP4, MP3, WAV, and AIFF files from the Finder correct into the timeline of your iMovie project. Drag files to the music well for groundwork music, or drag the file under a particular 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 appear in the browser.

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

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