Editing & publishing videos used to be something relegated to the realms of professional moviemakers. However, nowadays, almost everyone is a budding video publisher. The cameras built into smartphones & Tablets of today are increasingly getting better, so shooting footage is commonplace.
Generally people upload such videos to social media Sites directly, or to YouTube. Such videos are a great tool to enhance product awareness for businesses as well as being a good method to record personal life-highlights.
However, everyone wants to improve their video making efforts, & there are numerous tools & resources, both Online or on the various App Stores to ease this process. We’re going to take a look at adding music to videos, which if done effectively, is one of the methods to enhance your video production professionalism. Adding music to videos is not really as difficult as you might think.
Where to find royalty-free music
YouTube offers a comprehensive compilation of free (also royalty free) song snippets, which users can add to their uploaded videos. Users can browse through the selection & choose a suitable background sound for their movie.
Video Editing Apps
Various apps offer a selection of free music, which can be added during the editing process. One example is Quik, which is available on the Apple App & Google Play Stores, the app has a number of built in tunes to choose from. Many similar apps can be found by searching on either Google’s Play Store or Apple’s App Store.
Web Resources
Several Websites offer music compilations specifically for video production.
How to add music to your video
To add music to a video on YouTube via their Online editor, you need to be signed into your YouTube account & have the video uploaded to your library. Click on the video you want to enhance & open it in the editor. Next, click on the “music note” icon & view the music snippets available, you can click to play a sample before you choose a song. Once you’ve made your selection, click save & view a preview to ensure that you’ve chosen correctly.
Quik
Adding sound to video in the Quik editor is similar to most other editing apps. To add background sounds, open the editor & add images and/or video or a combination of the two, then select the “music note” icon — you will be presented with a number of music snippets to choose from. Once you’ve made your selection, you can adjust the duration of the snippet in your video, add silences or recorded voice-overs at various junctures on the editor’s timeline.
Another option available on most apps is to add a snippet you’ve procured from another resource, to do this you must add the sound to your library by importing the sound file into the app. A note of warning here: be sure that you’re not contravening any copyrights that exist because YouTube will reject your video if you do.
Whether you choose to add music via YouTube’s editor or a 3rd party app, most systems follow similar methodology so a little practice should see you producing professional looking videos you can be proud of.
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