USING IMOVIE AND GARAGEBAND TO CREATE

USING IMOVIE AND
GARAGEBAND TO CREATE
THE MOMENT BEHIND THE PHOTO STORY
PART 1
GarageBand and iMovie work together to let you assemble a range of video, pictures, and sound elements
to create a story. GarageBand is used to edit audio and create music, and iMovie is used to assemble sound
and image files together to create a movie and export it as a Quicktime file. These applications come with most
Apple Macs. You will find GarageBand and iMovie in your Applications folder.
1.Launch GarageBand. Select New
Project and choose Voice.
2.Give your project a name, and click
on Create to save it. The project will
be saved to the GarageBand folder
in the Music folder on the Mac. It is
important that it’s kept here, so that
iMovie will see the file later.
Remember to save your project regularly, by clicking Command+S.
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3.In the Tracks Pane on the left, you
will see two audio tracks are already
in the project, one Male Basic and
one Female Basic.
4.If you are using GarageBand to
record your audio, choose which
one of these tracks to record to, and
delete the track you’re not using.
To do this, highlight the track you
want to delete by clicking on it, then
go to Track > Delete Track in the
Main Menu.
If you have recorded your audio
using your phone or a recorder, you
can delete both of these tracks.
If you have recorded your audio using your phone or a recorder, skip to Import your audio.
5.You will now have one track in the
Tracks pane. The track will be blue
to show that it is active, and the
small record button will be red.
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6.Click on the Save Instrument
button in the bottom right to give the
track a name. Click Save.
7. When you are ready to start
recording, click on the red
Record button at the bottom
of the window. To stop recording,
use the spacebar, or click on the
Play button which is blue
when it is activated.
To listen to what you have recorded,
use this
button to go back to
the start, and use the spacebar or
Play button to start and stop. If you
make a mistake, you can click on
the recording and click delete.
8.You don’t have to record everything
in one take. If you make more than
one recording, they will be laid endto-end on the timeline.
When you are happy with what you have recorded, skip to Edit your audio.
If you recorded your audio using your phone or a recorder, it’s time to Import your audio.
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9. Import your audio into the project
by clicking and dragging your audio
file(s) from the folder you have
saved them in the Finder, onto the
Tracks pane. A new Basic Track
for each audio file is created, and
will have the same name as your
imported audio file.
Now it’s time to Edit your audio.
10. If you have more than one track,
you can isolate the track you want
to listen to by clicking on the Solo
button, which looks like a pair of
headphones. The track that you
have isolated will be the only one
coloured. To undo, click the Solo
button again.
11. To listen to your audio, click
the Play button in the Control
Panel at the bottom, or use your
spacebar to play and pause.
12. You can adjust the volume of each
track by using the volume slider in
the Tracks pane.
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13. You might notice that when you play
your audio, a Counterbox at the
bottom lets you know how far into
the file you are. This can display
in Measures for music projects, or
Time for other audio projects. For
this project, click on the arrow above
the clock symbol so that Time is
displayed.
You can use this display to make
notes about what you have recorded,
and the start and end times of
sections you would like to use.
Later you can easily find that part of
the audio again by typing the number
into the Counterbox.
14. Under the Main Menu, click on
Track > New Basic Track. This
will create a new track for you to
copy the parts of the audio you
think you want to keep.
15. Rename the new track ‘Rough Cut’.
To rename the track, click on the
new track to select it, then click on
the Save Instrument button in the
bottom right.
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THE MOMENT BEHIND THE PHOTO STORY
16. Double-click on one of your coloured
audio clips. This gives you a closeup view of the track, which will make
it easier to see your edit points.
17. Click the play button or press the
spacebar to play the audio, and stop
at a point where you want to make
an edit. Go to the Main Menu, and
select Edit > Split. Create a Split at
the beginning and at the end of the
first section you think you will use.
At this stage, don’t worry about being
too precise. You can refine your edit
as it progresses.
18. Click on the selection you have just
made. It will now be a darker colour.
Copy the selection (under Edit in the
Main Menu, or Command + C).
Always copy from your original audio
rather than cutting, so that you keep
a clean copy that matches the notes
you made when you first listened to
your recording.
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19. Click on the Rough Cut track to
select it, and Paste your selection
into the Rough Cut track (under Edit
in the Main Menu, or Command V).
20. If you need to zoom in or out, use
the slider at the bottom of the Tracks
Pane on the left.
21. Repeat these steps with selections
from all the audio files you have
recorded.
Make sure you highlight the Track
that you are working with each time
you copy and paste, so that you copy
from - and paste to - the right track.
Use the Solo button to isolate the
track that you want to listen to.
22. Once you have copied all your
selections into the Rough Cut track,
you can click and drag to move them
around.
You can drag your clips together to
remove the gaps, and change the
order if you want to.
It’s a good idea to leave a second or
two empty space at the beginning of the
story, to give people time to settle in.
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23. As you play through your edit, you
may find smaller sections that you’d
like to delete.
To do this, double-click on the
section you want to edit, to open
the Edit Panel. Highlight the audio
that you do not want by clicking and
dragging across it, and click the
Delete button on your keyboard.
24. If you delete too much, you can
always get the audio back again.
When you position the mouse over
the lower right corner of the track
in the Edit Panel, a special cursor
appears. Click and drag the track to
the right to add back what you have
deleted.
Play through your edit a few times, thinking about how you could improve the story by trimming it down, or
changing the order. If there are any sections where your attention drifts, think about trimming these sections.
Look at the photo as you listen to the story.
Play it to other people to see how they respond to it.
Gradually hone the story down, until it is under 1 minute 20 seconds.
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