This is a tutorial that will show you how to do the “Why So Serious?” assignment, where you have to take a video of a serious movie and add the audio from a funny movie. To follow along with my tutorial, you will need iMovie, iTunes, and QuickTime Player, all of which should be available if you have a Mac computer. Part of this tutorial will consist of screenshots because I can’t show you how to use the screen recording in QuickTime Player when I am actually using it myself to record a tutorial. The rest will be a screen recording so it will be easier to follow along with what to do in iMovie.

To start out, you have to find two clips – one of serious movie and one of a funny one. YouTube is the perfect place to find these. Once you find the video you want to use only the audio of, go to this converter website. It coverts the video into a mp3 format, so it will be only audio. Just paste the link to your video inside the box and click “Convert Video.”

The image below should appear once it is converted. Click “Download” and the mp3 should automatically go into your iTunes library.

Now comes the harder part! To get the video from your other clip, you need to open QuickTime Player. Once you do this, go under File>New Screen Recording.

The box below should pop up. Once you hit the record button, the computer will be recording anything that happens on your screen except for the black “Screen Recording” box. When you’re ready, hit the red record button FIRST.  Then, put your YouTube video into “Full screen” so that is the only thing recorded. Don’t move your mouse or do anything on the computer that will show anything except the video. Sound doesn’t matter because we will be removing the audio from the video later anyway. When you’re done, click the stop button on the “Screen Recording” box.

Now you should have recorded your video! It will appear in the QuickTime Player window. You can play it to make sure it’s acceptable to use. As you can see below, it will record your screen before you start playing the video.

You can trim your video by going to Edit>Trim, as seen below. This will allow you to cut off any extra recording that you don’t need.

You can drag the yellow border to shorten your video as needed. Click Trim when finished.

Once you’re done, we are ready to save the video to your computer so we can access it from iMovie. Go to File>Export.

The window below should pop up. Save the movie under Movies>iMovie Projects.

Now, we are ready to edit the audio and video together in iMovie! Please see the video below for the rest of the tutorial.