How to Make a Music Video on iMovie (COMPLETE Tutorial)
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Can you really make a professional looking, high quality music video with a free software like iMove? The answer is "Yes... Yes you can". As far as the "professional" and "high quality" parts go, that really begins with the filmmaking and having a good understanding of lighting and set design. If your footage looks good, then all you need to do with iMovie is arrange it and sync it with the backing track.
However, perhaps you've tried using iMovie before and found it to be a frustrating editor to work with; well, I'll show you a few tricks and tips to simplify the process and speed up your work flow! With a little practice, you'll be making your own music videos in no time!
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So helpful! Thanks for your really clear explanation and great presentation
I'm glad you found it helpful!
A fine catalogue of NSYNC photos! Good video.
It took me a little while to track all those down, haha!
Amazing! Easy to follow and understand. Great tips I’ve never thought of before.
Awesome; I'm glad you learned something you can use!
Dude thanks. I am always amazed at the generosity of people like you. I was so lost trying this the first time. Now I think I can move forward and get my first video done. Really appreciate it.
My pleasure; I'm glad you found the video helpful! Good luck on your Music Video; I'm sure it will be great!
Alright guys lets play a drinking game of how many times he say in sync
Just make sure you're drinking water! Wouldn't want anyone to hurt themselves 😂
This was so helpful! I'd never done anything like this before and used this video to make my first multi-intrumental cover! Thanks :)
Awesome! I'm glad this was helpful to you! I'll be sure to check out your video!
honestly so helpful! have been researching different softwares so I can start making a music video for my band, just gonna stick with iMovie now! so many little work arounds for silly little flaws in iMovie. Thank you!!!
Awesome, I'm glad to hear this was helpful to you!
thanks so much!
My pleasure; glad you found it helpful! Let me know if you have any questions!
That was dope😂👍.
iMovie is a 1k$ software that comes with a free computer 💥🤣
It really is an advanced software, worthy of it's own computer 😂
*comes with a free computer 😅
Thanks so much for this, really helpful. I've been using a very time-consuming way of making videos because I had no idea I could stack (new term for me) clips. I always thought that this would make perfect sense but didn't have the curiosity to drag 2 clips on at a time. Would be amazing of you could drag on more than that but there's only so much a $1,000 piece of software can do with only a free computer to back it up. Seriously though, thank you, this will make my amateur video-making life so much easier and quicker!
My pleasure! I'm so glad to hear this was helpful to you, and I'm excited for you and your future projects!
Thank you. Real easy to follow, great Job!
If only I'd seen this 6 months ago.
Welp, better late than never, haha! I'm glad this was helpful to you!
Dope bro
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Hey, my pleasure, man! Glad you found the video helpful! 🫡
Thank you mate
My pleasure; glad you found it helpful!
Thank you for this bro! You should keep making tutorial for iMovie ! 🔥🔥🔥 def helped me out
My pleasure; glad you found it helpful!
I use imovie for music videoclips but I'm always learning something different thanks for sharing nice video
really good stuff man, perfect for where im at
Awesome; I'm glad this was helpful to you!
Hey, thanks for sharing your talent with us and teaching us how to do this! This will definitely help out a lot in the future! Keep up the great work! 👏🏽🙏😊
My pleasure! Thank you for the kind words; I'm glad you found it helpful!
@@QuincyKane Of course! No problem! 😊 Just keep being awesome! 😎
thanks 🙂
My pleasure; glad you found it helpful!
So, how's iMovie workin' for ya?
Took me 5 ever to realize u covered Frozen II
Haha, yep! Went to see the movie with my brother (who didn't wanna go alone 😂), and heard the song and thought, "This could be a metal song".
At first, I was resistant to the idea, but thought I'd at least give it a chance, and sure enough, I thought it came out pretty cool, haha
Good video with good tips. Learned a few useful things on how to sync and use Imove in general.
I'm glad it was helpful to you!
found this video just in time. I am working on a music video for one of my songs and want to use iMovie (free of course). however, one of my ideas is to have multiple head shots of people singing the chorus. any ideas on how to do that? I was thinking Picture in Picture but you can only have the one stack. maybe I create snippets and export then pull that in and add more and export, etc.? great video.
Yes, you've pretty much got the right idea; I've done this effect before in iMovie, which you can see in this video here:
ruclips.net/video/pJGjxuEZ860/видео.htmlsi=ISBTj8WmHhcchysm&t=182
Basically, start with a black backdrop, put your footage on top and select "Picture In Picture", the drag it to the center frame and you will see a cross section; drag your footage to a corner of the cross section and it should lock in place, then expand outward to the edge of the frame.
Then, you export that out, bring it back into the project and repeat the same process with your other clips until you've filled all 4 corners of the frame.
Sometimes, when you expand a clip to the edge of the frame, some of the image will go past the edge and be cropped out; not sure why it doesn't always perfectly align, but it's not that big of a deal.
Lastly, I've only used this technique to show 4 clips in one frame, so if you were hoping to do more, you might have to do some experimenting to figure that out, but hopefully what I've shared will be helpful to you!
Good luck with your project; I'm sure it'll come out great!
Man I just want to thank you I’m an upcoming artist I’m pretty independent and I really wanted to make my own music video and I didn’t know any other apps to help make one this app was the only one I could go for and I was super confused on how it worked and your helping me so thank you
Awesome; I'm glad this was helpful to you! Good luck on your project; I'm sure it'll be great!
ive been looking for a vid like this for years! thank u! im learning much! so dubbing is a thing huh? thats been messin with me then iv been having problems like that and learning how to use i movie is probly important
I'm glad you found this video helpful! I hope you understand how the dubbing works!
Thank q for show
My pleasure!
also you did an amazing job on this video. great instruction. super helpfull
Thank you for the kind words; I'm so glad this was helpful to you!
Thanks buddy
Now I just need to learn how to do multi split images with iMovie
I’ve always dreamed of filming a music video off my phone
You can do that! It might help to look up some tutorials on RUclips about "how to get a cinematic look on a phone"; just work to the camera's strength and it'll turn out just fine!
You are a Legend, thank you for this. Had a Deadline suddently to edit our music video and I knew a little editing from back in the day when I was a Teenager, But didn't how to start again. This helped in the most massive way possible. I will share it soon with you , if you want to see it. Thanks so much again for sharing this information!
Edit : Quick question, do you know to make the audio re-sync with the video with a button after making a small edit, or any way, if its possible?
Thanks, I'm glad you found it helpful! And sure; send me a link and I'll check out your video!
As for "re-syncing" the audio; if you cut something out and don't replace it with something else, everything after that point will scoot forward and happen early. It's hard to explain this over text, but if there was a certain clip I wanted to happen sooner, I would first cut around the clip, copy and paste it, and then put it on top of the original clip. Then, I would make the adjustments on top, so that nothing gets out of sync. If I "trimmed" the clip to happen sooner, I would then need to "drag" the end of the clip to fill in the space, or drag the front of the next clip to fill that space.
Hopefully that gives you some ideas; it's a little like working a puzzle sometimes!
You might actually "re-watch" the parts in this video around 6:08 and 14:09; I think some of the techniques I talk about in those sections might help you with your situation.
@@QuincyKane thank you so much for the quick responses! , I will finish the video tonight or tomorrow, (European timezone here haha)
Your instructions were really helpful but damn the fact that iMovie restricts the timeline with the auto snap into place / doesn’t let you work around on diff sections without your cutting method drives me nuts. Constantly get it synched then messing it up. Prob gonna pay for another software
Yeah, it is an annoying feature, but believe it or not, you do get used to it, haha. Someday, I'll probably look to getting a more advanced software, but right now iMovie gets the job done!
The NSYNC picture 😂
and im mad the ncync joke got me ertimeXD but at least i can say ive never even looked that band up maybey heard them somwhere but idk lol
How do I record it
If you mean the video, you just need a camera to set up and film yourself singing or playing along with the song. You can film yourself at whatever location you'd like and do as many takes as you need. Once you have all the footage, you just have to import it onto your computer, and into iMovie.
If you mean the music, that's a slightly different topic and a little complicated to explain over text, but I can tell you that you will need recording software (ideally on a computer, but there are apps for phones too), and interface to plug in instruments and microphones, and some decent headphones. I'm not sure what gear you have, but there are videos that show you how to record songs entirely on a phone, and there are videos for different recording softwares like Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, etc. I would recommend checking out the RUclips channel "The Recording Revolution" if you need help producing music.
Hope that helps!
What should the final Volume of master track of the music should be? Or just leave it at 100?
If your song has been properly mixed and mastered, then leaving the volume at "100" should be fine. However, you should be able to see the "audio waves" in iMovie, and the peaks of the audio waves will likely be a "yellowish" color, which is safe, but loud. If you turn it up any more then that, the peaks of the audio waves will turn red, which means you're clipping, which is too loud and will distort your audio. As long as your audio isn't hitting red, you should be good 👍
@@QuincyKanehey thanks for responding… one last question… what’s better for the master track Foreground or Background?
@@fettiiiosama Ok, so are you asking if the music should be loud in the "foreground" or quiet in the background?
If it's a Music Video, the Song should be basically full volume, but if it's a video where someone's talking, or something else is going on and the music is supposed to be in the background, then you have to turn it down pretty quietly; it should be noticeable, but not distracting.
I don't know if that's what you meant by your question, but hopefully that helps.
Me and imovie have been going head to head 😂 I would line up my mp3 with the camera audio and in the time line it's perfect... but soon as I mute the camera audio and play the video with the actual mp3 there is a lag... so everything is aligned perfect until I mute the camera audio to hear the footage play with the mp3
Hmm, so are you trying to sync the mp3 with one long clip?
If so, you'd wanna listen through with the mp3 and video unmuted for the whole song and make they're in sync to the very end. If they're not, it might be a slight tempo change, or an issue with the frame rate of the video.
If they are in sync, then it should be fine when you mute the video; the lag might be iMovie processing the video, so you might restart the software (or your Mac), make sure you don't have other programs running, and let it play through a couple times.
The lag might also be an illusion; sometimes when you mute the video audio, the mp3 audio can look kinda weird at first, but you adapt to it after a while.
If your video does have cuts rather than being one clip, then you may be able to adjust the alignment for the clips where it seems out of sync.
Anyway, I hope that helps you find a solution!
@@QuincyKane thank you so much man
I am 63 and I am going to try to use iMovie.....excited! I play guitar and sing...so I am hoping to sing a song and have myself sing, and also do harmony with myself, and maybe add another instrument (ukulele) ....is this possible?
Awesome! There's a couple ways you could go about doing that...
1) You could "Pre-Record" the audio; for example, if you have a microphone, you could record yourself playing the guitar in Garageband, then record a separate track singing, and then record more tracks singing harmony and playing other instruments. Balance the volume of each track, and then export (or "bounce") all the tracks into a single audio file (usually an mp3).
Then, you can get footage of you performing all the different parts, and edit just like I demonstrated in the video here.
2) You could do it all in iMovie; iMovie allows you 2 video layers and 3 (technically, even more) audio layers. You could video yourself performing each part, but you'll need some kind of metronome or beat to keep you on time. You could put your "harmony" video underneath the video of you playing guitar and singing (just make sure they're in sync). I you wanted to add ukulele, you could "right click" you harmony clip and "detach audio"; this would move the audio down to the audio section, and then you could replace the "harmony" clip with a "ukulele" clip.
This method can work, but might not be as "elegant" as pre-recording the audio; and you would have as much control.
There are other possibilities, but they're tricky to explain over text; I would encourage you to shoot a short little 15 - 30 second song and do some tests to get more familiar with the tools you have available and how to make them work.
Hope that helps; good luck!
So at first I was kinda annoyed about the Nsync pics... By the 7th minute I was already looking forward to it xD
Haha, I'm glad it grew on you!
Thanks for a useful video. I will say, however, that the constant cutaways to NSYNC were very annoying. Cute the first time. Annoying every time after that.
It's all or nothing, haha 😅 Glad you still got some use out of the video!
OMG the InSynch Stop It! lol
Haha, it's all or nothing!
@@QuincyKane lol I was rolling my eyes after the 3rd one and then IT KEPT HAPPENING! Apart from that, the video was great. Thanks!
Did you use your iPad to record yourself? Also did you use garage band to export your track in? If not I guess my question is can I use garage band to use when using iMovie????
The footage was captured on my DSLR camera, the Canon T3i. The music was produced in Logic Pro 9, and I bounced out an mp3 track to use in iMovie.
You can use just about any audio file with iMovie, so if you create a track in Garage Band and bounce it out as an mp3, you can use that track in iMovie.
Hope I don’t have to go to a different video to learn how to import
In iMovie, you can just click and drag your footage into iMovie, or you just click the "Import" button at the top of iMovie.
what was the outdo song?
The outro song is a song I wrote called "Ascension". You can find the song on Spotify, Apple Music, RUclips Music, or wherever you listen to music (LINK below), and you can download it for free here:
quincykane.bandcamp.com/track/ascension
distrokid.com/hyperfollow/quincykanemorris/ascension
Can you use apple voice memo for getting the audio into imovie? (I’m doing this on my phone)
I'm afraid I don't have any experience with that; sorry! Hopefully you can do a little research and find the answer you're looking for, but I'm sure there is a way! Good luck!
Oh ok. Thank you! Great vid btw!
These tutorials seem helpful but I am an actual beginner and SO many details get overlooked assuming I already know how to do something..how did these music just appear there? 2:16-2:55? where did that come from, I honestly do not understand ,,Magic?
You can't use iMovie without FILES to edit; this includes VIDEO files and AUDIO files.
To IMPORT means to put the files INTO the program you're using. After you get your footage, you IMPORT it from your camera to your computer, then in iMovie, you just click "Import" and find the video files on your computer and select them.
Now, you can't make a music video with MUSIC; this tutorial is assuming you already have music and you just need to learn how to make a video with it. The music I used was a song I recorded myself with a software called "Logic Pro"; this software allows me to record or program guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. I recorded all the parts, did some editing, and exported the final product into an audio file.
Just like the video files, you click "Import" in iMovie, find the audio file on your computer and select it. That's how you get music into iMovie.
Now, if your making music videos for other people's songs, you just need an audio file of that song. If you want to make music videos for your own songs, you first need to learn how to RECORD, EDIT, MIX, and MASTER your own songs first.
You will need what's called a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation); Macs come with a free DAW (just like iMovie is free) called GARAGEBAND, so you can start with that, but you can buy more advanced ones like Logic Pro.
Then, just start looking up videos like:
What Studio Gear You Need to Get Started in Recording
How to Record Guitar in GarageBand
How to Record Vocals in GarageBand
How to Program Drums in GarageBand
How to Mix in GarageBand
And whatever else you can think to look up. A great resource for learning recording and mixing is a RUclips channel called THE RECORDING REVOLUTION. I've made a few tutorials about recording and mixing as well; you can find those here:
ruclips.net/p/PLlf0ZQAmSRQnAxcZ0YDb-NbdqNzQ640Ia
Anyway, I hope that helps; let me know if you have anymore questions!
@@QuincyKane Already had an album saved in Garage band and I am not trying to upset you but I found the answer to my question in another video
@@QuincyKane ruclips.net/video/G3-WiP9xY_g/видео.html this is direct/to the point
@@zappastail You did not upset me, I was just capitalizing key words to make it as clear as possible to understand. Glad you found a solution and hope you can make your music video now!
@@QuincyKane Just FYI, I did refer to your video and this is my very first attempt ruclips.net/video/JHAdckbraeU/видео.html
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I bet your band is called Nsynch right ?
Haha 😂
ive got good ears but isnt it impossible to actually play exactly what u recorded?!?!?!
I mean, not really; if you've practiced the song a lot and you've practiced to a set tempo (either with a metronome or a recorded drum beat), then you will be consistent every time you play it. Even if you don't play it "perfectly", it will likely be close enough that it will look in sync when lined up with the audio.
Could this be done with imovie on an iphone 12?
I'm afraid I don't have any personal experience with the iPhone version, but you could shoot a short test video and try out the methods shared in this video and see which ones apply. Either way, if that's all you have to work with, I'm sure you can still make music videos!
@@QuincyKane it doesn't seem to allow me to do different layers of video like you do on your laptop.
@@comicbookninja5268 That would make it challenging; maybe you could make a different project for each instrument, get them in sync with the back track, and bounce them out as a video. Then, bring those videos into a new project, and just cut on specific beats in the song so you can swap out different clips. I hope that gives you some ideas; like I said, if that's all you got and you really wanna make music videos, don't let the limitations stop you!
Nick Mira???
I'm not familiar with Nick Mira, so I looked him up; if you're saying we look alike, I guess we do a little, haha
1000$ software that comes with a free computer 😂 great perspective
Having the right perspective changes everything!
bro that frequency doin sum my ears are bleeding
Sorry! It didn't show up through my speakers; hope you can still get some use out of the video!
Hahah nsync
Not helping me😢😢
What's not working?
@@QuincyKane how to sync bro….how will I make my lips to rhyme with my music video
@@Occ_okeosisii So, when you record your video, you have to play the song during the recording and sing along with it; that way, when you go to edit in iMovie, you just match up the Song with the Video's Audio, then turn down the Video's Audio.
If you have footage of yourself singing with the song, but you're having trouble syncing it up, you have to do a little bit of "fishing". Find the section of the song you're singing, and look for a SNARE hit or a CYMBAL hit at the beginning of the section; find the same hit in both the Video AND the Song. Then, cut at those same hits and match them up with each other and everything should line up.
Again, at 0:43 I talk about filming yourself performing the song while it's playing through a speaker, then at 3:01 I show how to get your footage in sync with the song; try watching that part again and following along with your own footage.
I hope that helps; let me know if you have any more questions!
@@QuincyKane thanks so much bro…I’m very sure it’ll work…..Uhmm sorry another question….between CAPCUT and IMOVIE..which is better
@@Occ_okeosisii I'm not familiar with Capcut, but what I can say is either software is probably good enough to get the job done, so it's really just a matter of which one you like better.
I'd say do a couple test projects in each one and see which one works better for you, then focus on getting better in that software. That's the most important thing; being comfortable and familiar with the software you're using, and the only way you get that is by spending time making stuff!
Lol the 1000 dollar software that comes with a free computer 🤣
It's quite generous of them!
dude that keyboard is really fucked up lol
nsync headass 😂😂😂😂😂
QUINCY!!! I owe you a massive debt of gratitude for this video. I found it at the absolute perfect time to create my music video (which is the EXACT same concept as yours) and now my video is on the RUclips!!! I absolutely couldn't have done it without your help, so thanks infinitely. I'm sharing the link here for anyone to see what they can do by following Quincy's guidance - And I hope you enjoy RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES ruclips.net/video/ch9fvNrEWkM/видео.html Cheers!!
Nice work on the video, Lisa! I'm glad I was able to help in some small way, and I hope it helps you with future projects! Keep it up!
@@QuincyKane you helped in the most massive way!!!! Never underestimate the power of sharing and assisting the collective 💖