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either one; or you can delete a clip by selecting it and then hitting the

spacebar. If you do make a deletion in this way and then, at a later stage, wish

you hadn’t, it doesn’t matter because you can use Edge Dragging to pull at the

severed end of the remaining clip and literally “pull out” the piece you thought

you had deleted… it was there all the time!

b) Inserting “Atmos”: If you listen carefully to the gaps in a voice-over track—

the spaces between the words and phrases—you will discover that you never

hear complete silence. Voice-over tracks always bring with them a certain

amount of atmospheric sound. Known as atmos, it’s a kind of background

hum or hiss. If you split an audio track and insert a pause by dragging one

half of the clip away from the other, you will create a dead space of complete

silence in the playback and it will sound odd because the atmos is missing. To

put this right, find a pause somewhere else in the voice-track, split the track in

front of it and again after it, go EDIT > COPY to copy your selection to the

computer’s clipboard and then move the Playhead back to the position on the

voice-track where you want to fill the silence with atmos and go EDIT >

PASTE. iMovie HD then pastes the atmos over the gap in the track. More

than likely the piece of atmos you just pasted will be too long for the gap it

needs to fill, so click-drag the pasted clip into the—as yet unused—second

audio track immediately below the gap, and Edge Drag it to fit. Then return it

to the gap in the voice-over track. Job done.

xi. Adding additional Audio: Sound effects and music can be useful when it comes to

creating mood… but be careful with your choice. Inappropriate sound effects can

spoil your work and remember, your favourite tune is invariably someone else’s least

favourite tune. Popular tunes carry associations, most of which are peculiar to the

listener. A poor choice of music will steer the attention of your audience away from

your story. So be very careful with what you choose and never use other people’s

material without their permission, and their publisher’s permission. If you use music

without these permissions then you are in breach of the copyright laws and you should

expect to be pursued as a thief.

So, rather than use music someone else has made, you should consider creating your

own. If you aren’t musical (is there anyone out there who never hums a tune or

whistles one occasionally?) then work with a friend who is. Remember, this is a

scrapbook aesthetic we are observing. We do it ourselves. All of it.

If you absolutely can’t manage without including commercial music then iMovie HD

makes it easy for you to access some. All you have to do is click the Media button in

the Assets Pane and then select the Audio button at the top of that Pane. Here you can

choose to view your whole iTunes Library or any particular playlist within it. (iTunes

comes as part of iLife ’06.) From this pop-up menu you can also choose to preview a

selection of ready-made “Standard Sound Effects”, “Skywalker Sound Effects” or

“iLife Sound Effects”. For the time being, though, we’ll stick with the iTunes

Library.

a) Importing Music: in the iTunes Library click a music track to select it. To

hear it, hit the circular “play” button (the one with the black triangle on it).

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