Adding Music to Your Video

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  • Music rights and royalties?Posted by courtneyw about 1 year ago

    The answer to your question is yes you can get in trouble for using an artist's music in a video scrapbook without official ... (continued)

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  • Overview
    Music is the icing on the cake for any good video. It helps to set the mood, and cary the story from beginning to end. The music should not dominate the video watching experience but complement it, therefore it needs to be placed wisely and the volume controlled so that it enhances the movie. Josh shows you how to bring music from a CD or your computer, into Movie Studio. He explains three ways to control the volume of the music in the timeline and demonstrates a very powerful way to adjust the audio for greatest effect throughout the movie.
  • Choosing Multiple Songs
    You can choose multiple songs by holding down the shift key while clicking on the songs.
  • Copyrighted Music

    A good answer to the question of the legality of using copyrighted music in your video scrapbooks can be found here.

  • Master Volume Slider
    When you lower this master volume slider all the audio on the track is effected, not just the audio you may have selected.
  • Rubber Band Audio Levels
    Think of it like a rubber band. You put a pin in the clip to hold it in place and then stretch the rubber band up or down to where you want the volume and then you put another pin in to hold it there.
  • Fine Volume Control
    You can use this technique to rase the volume when someone is talking too quietly and lower the volume when someone else talks too loudly in the same scene.

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