How to Add Background Music to Video

Have you ever wanted to add background music to spice up your home movies or videos? You know, adding background music can turn a dull, monotonous video into a snappy musical montage. Are you just trying to look for some ways or tools to make your home movie more interesting and attractive? If yes, this guide, which teaches you how to add audio or background music to touch up your videos or home movies, will help you a lot for sure.

Aimersoft Video Editor (including both Windows and Mac version), owns powerful features and specifically audio and background music tracks that allow you to remove the original sound or to add background music to movies with ease. Just follow the below steps, and you will add audio or music to your video easily and successfully.

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Steps to add music to videos

1Download and install Video Editor

Both the Windows (Windows 8 compatible) and Mac version are available. Just download the right version according to your computer's operating system.

2 Import video files

Click "Add Media" tab (Import for the Mac version) to locate your target videos into the editing software. All the added video clips will be listed in the media library.

3 Add background music to videos

Drag the videos from the media library into the timeline panel. The video and audio will be displayed separately in the video and audio line. Now what you have to do is to import a song and drop it onto the music track in the timeline. After your song is in place, you can trim and adjust the song so that it is the same length as the video. Also you should adjust the volume so it doesn't drown out the original audio of your video.

4 Save and share

After the music adding, here comes to the edited video saving. You can save the video into the desired format and filename both in your computer or your portable devices like iPhone, iPod, Zune, PSP, etc.

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Best sites to get background music for videos

1. RoyaltyFreeMusic.com

A music websites where you can find all kinds of music, like background music, rock and roll, classical, rap, hip-hop, Christian and much more.

2. Stockmusic.net

You can directly download any music you like to MP3, SAIFF, or WAV format. The music styles have coverage from classical music to country and western.

3. UniqueTracks

This site offers a wide variety of royalty free music like dance music, jazz, hip-hop, rap and more. Directly downloading to your computer in MP3/WAV format is also supported.

4. ib Audio

At ib Audio, you will find various collections of music like blues, funk, inspirational, rock and more.

5. FilmtvTracks

In Filmtv tracks, you will get free royalty music such as orchestral, percussion, renaissance, jazz, rock and much more.