Add impact with audio.

Music, sound effects, and narration can enhance the drama of your stories and make them more exciting. Use voiceover narration to add information to a documentary and add music to establish the tone of your video.

Try it.

Set up voiceover recording. Click Record Voiceover , then click Voiceover Options and choose a microphone option from the Input Source drop‑down menu.

Apply it.

  • Add an audio narration to a series of photos. Record a voiceover to describe a story as the photos play.

  • Bring photos to life in an instructional video. Add sound effects or environmental sounds to the video.

Go further.

When multiple clips with audio are playing at the same time, iMovie can automatically lower the volume of the background tracks so they don’t compete with the clip you want to hear.

Learn more about lowering the volume of other clips that play at the same time