Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Three:
Click the Play icon (or just press the
Spacebar
) to play our short video, and
now the background music plays, as well.
Makes a huge difference, doesn't it? At
the end of this chapter, we're going to
build a 60-second-or-so demo video, so
just like the video clip, trim the music
down to around 60 seconds. But, our
music clip is 236 seconds long (almost
4 minutes), so it's going to cut off really
abruptly at the end of our video, unless
we gently fade the music out. So, Right-
click directly on your green audio track
and an Audio settings dialog appears,
where you can choose when you want
the music to fade in (since we're starting
at the beginning of the song, we don't
need to fade in, but if we started later in
the song, we would want it to) and fade
out. Drag the Fade Out slider over to
around the 60-second mark (as shown
here) and click anywhere outside the dia-
log to close it. Now, play your movie again
and, at the 60-second mark, your music
will gently fade away.
TIP: Muting Your Background Music
If you want to temporarily turn off your
background music track, just click the
little speaker icon (shown circled here)
to the left of the music notes icon, and
it mutes your background track.
Step Four:
When you played the video clip in Step
Three, did you hear people talking in the
background? That's me and my team talk-
ing and directing during the shoot. Of
course, you don't want to hear that in this
case—you just want to hear the back-
ground music—so you need to mute the
audio on the video clip. Right-click on
your first video clip and a settings dialog
appears (shown here). Click on the music
notes icon to see the Audio settings, then
turn on the Mute Audio checkbox (as
shown here), so you don't hear us talking
while we were taping.
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