Use cases

How to prepare a voiceover WAV for a video

Record the voiceover separately, trim its silences and place a WAV of the voice at the exact point in the video.

The editor interface is in Spanish for now. Button names appear in Spanish, followed by their meaning in English.

Measure how much room you have to speak

Watch the video and note where the voiceover starts and ends. If the explanation has to come in at 00:03 and finish at 00:15, you have about 12 seconds. Read the text out loud before recording. If you run out of breath or have to rush, shorten the sentence.

Record and adjust the take in QuickEdit

Open Montaje (session). You can load a WAV or MP3 recording, or connect a microphone and record on an empty track. Leave some room before and after speaking so you can check breaths and consonants. Listen on headphones and record again if the voice clips while recording.

Trim the extra silence and use section export to take only the voiceover. Keeping the voice as a separate file lets you adjust its level in the video without redoing the take if you change the music.

Place the voice over the picture

In the video editor, move the playhead to 00:03, import the WAV as audio and check where the last word ends. In iMovie for iPhone you can add the WAV from Files. Do a final listen with the picture and the original sound of the video. Add audio files to iMovie.