How to Add Music to Video to Make Your Videos Attractive

From traditional TV commercials in the past to today’s YouTube, Dailymotion, TikTok, Snapchat, as well as Vimeo, video has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Why is video so popular? The popularity of video is closely related to the emergence of social media. In addition, compared with pictures and text, video is more fascinating and memorable. 

Thus, more and more marketers use video as part of their digital marketing strategy. For consumers, videos are easy to digest, entertain, and participate in, while for marketers, videos help promote products, increase traffic to their websites, and directly increase sales.Using video for marketing is indeed very effective, provided that your video must be compelling and memorable. 

A trick to make your video stand out from the crowd is to add background music. In today’s world, apart from videos, people spend time listening to music almost every day. When you are walking on the street, you will hear that many shops are playing music to attract customers. 

This principle also applies to video. Adding background music to video can create an immersive atmosphere to make viewers feel more engaged when watching the video.

1. How to Add Music to a Video in MiniTool Movie Maker

To add background music to the video, a professional video editor is essential. Most of the full-featured software on the market is charged, and free software has various restrictions. Here we recommend you a free Windows video editor without watermark – MiniTool Movie Maker. With this free video editor, you can easily mute the original audio track in a video, and then add different music clips to a video clip. Besides, the software also provides many basic audio editing functions, such as split, trim, merge, fade in and fade out, etc. 

To add music to video free, follow the steps below.

Step 1. Launch MiniTool MovieMaker

• Download MiniTool MovieMaker from the official site, and follow the instructions to install it on your Windows computer.
• After that, double-click on the desktop icon to launch it.
• Close the pop-up window to get into the main interface. 

Step 2. Import and edit the video

• Click the Import Media Files button and import your video.
• l  Click the + button to add your video to the timeline or simply drag and drop it. Then you edit the video, such as split, trim, rotate, reverse, add text, add transitions, add effects, add motions, color correction, etc.
• l  Press OK to save the settings. 

Step 3. Add and edit the music files

• Go to Media > Music > Import Media Files to add your music files to the program.
• Add them to the audio track one by one.
• Now, you can edit the music clips, like rearrange, split, trim, change the music volume, and apply fade in/out effect.
• Hit OK to save the changes. 

Step 4. Export the video

• When all is done, tap on Export in the toolbar.
• After the output window pops up, just give a name, choose an output format, specify the destination folder, select a video quality for the new video file.
• Hit the Export button to save it.

2. How to Add Music to iMovie

With a simplified design and intuitive editing features, iMovie can easily convert photos and video clips into eye-catching videos or movies. If you want to add audio to video on a Mac computer, there is no better choice than iMovie. 

First of all, please download iMovie from the Mac App Store and install it, then read the following tutorial to add music to iMovie. 

Step 1. Open a new project in iMovie

• After launching the iMovie, click Create New, and select Movie to start a new video project.
• Your new project will open, showing the browser, the viewer, and the timeline. 

 Step 2. Load a video to iMovie Project

• From the left sidebar, select Photos and then choose a content category to locate the video from My Albums, Albums, Years, Collections, Moments, or Places.
• When you find the video that you want to add music to, drag it over to the timeline and place it on the uppermost track. Alternatively, you can drag it from the Photos app directly into the timeline of your iMovie project. 

Step 3. Add audio / music to the selected video

• Click the Audio option to access the music that you’d like to use in the video you selected just now. If your music file is in iTunes, just select iTunes on the left.
• To add music to your iMovie project, just drag and drop it beneath your project. When you see the green plus icon, release the mouse. If you drag the music file to the position indicated by a note icon, the music file will not move when you move any video clip on the timeline. 

Step 4. Edit the music / audio

• In this step, you can trim music, adjust the volume, set fade in/out effects.
• If the music file is too long, you can adjust the endpoint of the audio track to the left to make sure it fit the length of your video.

Step 5. Confirm and export the video

• Click the play icon in the mini player to preview your video with music.
• If you’re happy with the result, go to File > Share > File to export it.

3. Can I Add Music to Video Online

If you want to add music to video without any installation, Clideo is what exactly you need. It is a powerful online platform that makes it super easy to edit all your video files, images, and GIFs. The only drawback of this online video editor is that it will add a watermark to the output video. 

Check the following steps to learn how to add music to video online. 

Step 1. Upload music and a video file  to the platform

• Navigate to the Clideo site and select Add music from its online tools.
• Click the + Choose file button to import a video file from your Windows, Mac, Android, or iPhone to the program.

(Note: If you want to add music to a YouTube video, click the arrow icon to open the drop-down menu and then paste its URL or choose it from your Google Drive or Dropbox account.) 

Step 2. Add the music and edit it

• When the video is loaded, click Add audio to import your music file.
• (Optional) You can trim music, loop music, as well as adjust the volume in this step. 

Step 3. Set the output format and download the video

• Select a format for the new video file and click the Create button.
• Then you can preview the video. If you are happy with the result, click Download to save the new video.

4. How to Add Music to YouTube Video

Sometimes, you may upload a video with no background music to your YouTube channel. Later, you want to add music to the video to enhance your YouTube video. But you don’t want to delete the video and re-upload a new one. Fortunately, YouTube has a built-in video editor that allows you to make some changes to the existing video without losing its URL. 

Follow the steps below to add music to a YouTube video.  

Step 1. Go to YouTube Studio

• Open the browser and sign in to your YouTube account.
• After entering the homepage, click your profile picture in the upper right corner of the screen, and then select the YouTube Studio option. 

Step 2. Add audio to your selected video

• Tap on Videos in the left panel, and you will see all your uploaded videos here. Then select the video you want to add music to and click its thumbnail.
• Select the Editor option from the left panel.
• Click the + icon (Add a track) behind the Audio option, select your desired music, and then click ADD. 

Step 3. Save the video and wait for a while

• Tap on the Save button. It might take a few minutes for your changes to apply.
• Once done, you will see the modified video on your YouTube channel. 

Background music is essential for video. It not only enhances the video quality, but also makes the audience feel engaged. When adding music to your videos, please use copyright-free music or royalty-free music. Or you can choose to ask for permission from the creators before using their music. This helps to prevent getting into legal trouble for infringing on copyrighted music.

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