Music is an indispensable part of movies, TV shows, anime series, and games. It renders emotions, improves people’s moods, and helps audiences feel more engaged when watching videos. If you’d like to add background music to a video, here’re four ways:
- Add music to video with MiniTool MovieMaker
- Add music to video with iMovie
- Add music to video with Kapwing
- Add music to YouTube video
Add Music to Video with MiniTool MovieMaker
MiniTool MovieMaker is designed to edit videos, including add music to video, split video, trim video, merge video, reverse video, change video speed, apply filters and transitions to video, remove audio from video, and many more.
Follow the steps below to add music to video.
Step 1. Download, install and run MiniTool MovieMaker. Close the pop-up window to continue.
Step 2. Once you get the main interface, tap on Import Media Files to import the video you want to add music, and the music track.
Step 3. Drag and drop the video to the timeline, and then click the + to add the music track.
Step 4. After adding the video and music, you can remove the original audio track from the video by clicking the speaker icon below the video frames.
Step 5. Click on Export in the menu bar and adjust the output settings.
Step 6. Lastly, click the Export button to export the video.
Add Music to Video with iMovie
iMovie is a free video editor that’s included with Apple devices. You can use it to add music to videos. What’s more, iMovie offers you built-in soundtracks and sound effects.
Here’s how to add music to video.
Step 1. Open the iMovie app, click on File > Import Media to import the target video file. Drag and drop the video to the timeline
Step 2. Go to the Audio tab and browse music in iTunes. Then select the wanted background music and add it.
Step 3. Move the start point and endpoint of the music file to trim the file to make it match your video.
Step 4. Tap on Share in the upper right corner and select File to save the video.
Add Music to Video with Kapwing
As an all-in-one online video editor, Kapwing has a set of editing tools that allows you to trim video, resize video, cut video, watermark video, add subtitles to video, make images transparent, and add text to GIF, etc. Kapwing is free to use but it will put a watermark on your output video unless you create a Kapwing account.
Here’s how to add music to a video online.
Step 1. Go to the Kapwing website and sign in with your Google or Facebook account.
Step 2. Click on New Content and upload the video file by tapping Click to upload.
Step 3. Tap on Audio to add the audio file, and trim the audio to fit the video. Then click Done.
Step 4. After that, click the Export Video button and download the video.
Add Music to YouTube Video
Wondering how to add music to a YouTube video? This part will show you how to add music to a video on YouTube.
Below are the steps to help you add background music to a YouTube video.
Step 1. Visit the YouTube website and sign in to YouTube.
Step 2. Click your profile picture and select YouTube Studio.
Step 3. Tap on Content in the left panel and you will see all your uploaded videos.
Step 4. Click the video that you want to add music, and click Editor.
Step 5. Click the + next to the audio icon, choose an audio track you like from YouTube Audio Library, and tap on ADD.
Step 6. Then press the SAVE button to save the change.
Conclusion
This post offers you 4 simple video editors to add music to a video. Now, you can choose a suitable one and use it to add background to your video!
