Little Known Way to Use Apple Music on iMovie

iMovie as a video editing software designed by Apple Inc. It's available for the Mac and iOS devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, etc. With this program, you’re allowed to import video footage to the Mac via the FireWire interface on most MiniDV format digital videos or the computer's USB connector. iMovie offers plenty of features for editing video on Apple devices, you can edit split and emerge photos and videos and add titles, themes, music, and effects, which including color correction and video enhancement.

When it comes to talking about importing music to your video, this tool has a lot of built-in BGM and audio effects. In addition, you can add the computer local folder tracks to iMovie as your video background music. If you have subscribed Apple Music, how to use Apple Music on iMovie? Why you can't add Apple Music to iMovie like other audio files? In this post, we will lead you to get a little-known to use Apple Music in iMovie.

Part 1. Little-Known Details about Apple Music

Generally speaking. We often listen to Apple Music tracks on the Apple Music app or iTunes. However, if you'd like to download Apple Music for offline playback, maybe you will notice that the tracks downloaded from Apple Music are in M4P format, which means Apple Music files are encoded by DRM tech. Customers can enjoy these download songs on Apple authorized machines only.

Therefore, under the DRM restriction, you can't use Apple Music on iMovie successfully like other common audio file

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s. To solve this problem, the key issue you need to address is to remove the DRM lock from Apple Music. Take it easy, AudFree DRM Audio Converter is highly recommended to you. It is a well-designed software to unlock DRM protection from Apple Music with converting Apple Music to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC, and preserve original sound's quality.

Part 2. How to Converter Apple Music to iMovie

Now, you can follow the detailed tutorial as below to learn how to remove DRM from Apple Music and then import DRM-free Apple Music file to iMovie to use it. Please download AudFree DRM Audio Converter first before getting started. For the free trial version, it can help you convert one-minute Apple Music.

Step 1. Add Apple Music to AudFree

Launch AudFree DRM Audio Converter and touch the "Add" button at the left-bottom corner, then you will find iTunes app will loading on your computer. Select Apple Music files you want to import iMovie then drag & drop them to AudFree directly.

Step 2. Adjust Output format to compatible with iMovie

To compatible Apple Music with iMovie, here we recommend you can set the output audio format as MP3. Click the "Audio" icon next to the "Convert" button, then it will pop up a Format Setting window shows all the formats you can choose, in this window you also can customize sample rate, bit rate, channel, and codec.

Step 3. Remove DRM from Apple Music with One Click Only

After format settings completed, just click the "Convert" button on AudFree, then this program will unlock DRM from Apple Music files and convert them to MP3 format. When this process finished, you can find these converted DRM-free Apple Music on your computer target folder.

Part 3. Import Converted Apple Music to iMovie

Congratulations, you have successfully get rid of the limitation of Apple Music. Now, you can import these DRM-free files to iMovie easily, also you can listen to them on any other devices like Apple iPod, Google home, Sony Walkman, etc.

Step 1. Launch iMovie software on your Mac, and choose the movie project you want to edit. Then click "Import" to import DRM-free Apple Music.

Step 2. Select the output folder and then choose the Apple Music file in it, touch "Imported Selected".

Now, you have added Apple Music to iMovie, you can freely use Apple Music on iMovie to make a unique video by yourself.