Alrighty, you Mac users. Let's add some sound effects to that animation!
Head into iMovie. This is a nice video editing program that should come with any Mac computer. In this post, I'm going to be talking to you people who have iMovie '09, '10, or '11. Let's get started.
First, open iMovie and click 'File', and then 'Import'. Search for your video clip, and import it. It should appear in your video footage bay at the bottom of the screen.
The video footage bay.
Second, click and select the entire clip and drag it into the timeline. If you run your mouse over it, you'll be able to see the video play. You can go to clip adjustments and color-correct it if you want.
Your music and sound effects bay.
Your sound effects folder will appear in the bay. If you click on it, you'll see the names of your sound effects. You can click and play the sound effects there. When you find the right one, drag it onto your video footage. It should appear as a green bar under your video.
The screenshot at below shows a bunch of sound effects added to a video bar.
The sound effect probably won't be exactly where you want it but you can drag it around with the mouse until it's exactly where you want it under the video. You can play the video at any time to see how the sound and video look together. Pretty cool! Remember, you can add as many sound effects as you want.
Keep adding sound effects until you're satisfied with how your animation sounds, and then click 'Share', and 'Export Movie'. You can select a graphics level [I recommend HD] and export a final video clip. Congrats! You just added sound to video on a Mac!
In the next post, I'll go over the pitfalls of animation and how to avoid them. Also, have a Merry Christmas!
---Noah Master
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