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iMovie and decoupling audio/video


The Pezman
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Hey all. So I was trying to edit a video together for the very first time. Unfortunately, I was an idiot and didn't plan accordingly, so the project ended up being a bust.

One reason for that, however, was because I couldn't seem to figure out a way to maintain an audio track from one clip while inserting video from another. I was told that was a Final Cut only feature, but then I recalled all the fanmade music videos I'd seen, with music tracks being linked with video game footage and the like.

So I imagine there must be a way to work with audio and video from different tracks in iMovie. Does anyone know what it is?

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Maybe I am misunderstanding.

First you said you are trying to edit a video together.

You couldn't do it because you couldn't figure how to add an audio track to a video track.

I assumed this was easy since you could just rip the audio or create it, and shove it in your iTunes library and then import from there.

You then mentioned needing to work with audio and video from two movies, thus I mentioned that other thing where you could intermingle the movies, and I assume you can also fully delete one of the videos from it and mute the audio, making Video track 1 and Audio Track 2 be the only ones playing.

Now you say you just want to rip audio out of a movie.

So which is it?

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It's both.

There were two sets of video and audio clips. One video had one set of audio, and another video had another set of audio.

I import all the video clips into my project, which of course meant the audio was attached to them.

I want to maintain the audio from ONE of the clips, while overlaying the video from the OTHER clip, all from within iMovie.

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