If you click where you want the fade to start, a punctuation point (a purple dot) will appear on the wave, and this will anchor the track sound levels before that point. Remember that you are probably working in very small bites of time, so what appears to be a long fade at this stage might not be very long when you listen to it in real time. You will see a purple line running across the audio clips: this is the volume line and allows you to fade pieces of the track up and down. You can only alter volumes from this screen it can't be done from anywhere else.

To alter volume levels choose View>Show clip volume levels. If you listen to your track a few times and watch out for the position of the playhead against the waveforms, you can pretty quickly recognise the 'shape' of your soundtrack against the peaks and troughs.ģ. You will hear the track but the sound will be distorted. You can alter the position of your track by dragging it, and can then 'scrub' through it by dragging the playhead (the small arrow) along it. To edit the track, click on the soundbar and the background colour will darken to show that you are working on that particular track.Ģ. Simply highlight the track you want to import, click on the timeline soundbar underneath the clip viewer at the point where you want the music to start, and finally click on 'place at playhead' on the right-hand side of the screen. If you have the track in your iTunes library then it's even easier, as it will show up in the Media section. To import from a CD, load the disc, find the track you want to use in Finder, and drag it into one of the two soundbars.

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