Simple Steps to Add Background Music to iMovie Videos

Music is a very important part of most movies, setting the tone for your video, and Apple iMovie are no different. Sometimes, the videos on iMovie will be amazing with some background audio. For example, if you are editing a wedding video, it would be better to add a background wedding song. Luckily, iMovie gives you the great option to add background audio to your iMovie project. In the following article, we'll show you how to add audio to iMovie in detail.

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• Part 1. How to add background music to iMovie
• Part 2. How to add audio to iMovie alternative (Recommended)
• Part 3. FAQs of adding audio to iMovie

Part 1. How to add background music to iMovie

Background music play an extremely role in making a video more vivid and touching. iMovie is a great option to achieve this goal. Below is a detailed guide on how to add background music to iMovie.

Step 1 Open "Music and Sound Effects" browser

Open your iMovie project, choose "Window" > "Music and Sound Effects," or click the "Music and Sound Effects" button in the iMovie toolbar to bring out the Music and Sound Effect browser.

Step 2 Find wanted background music in iMovie

Browse to find the music you want to add in your project, there are four folders to find your wanted audio file: iMovie Sound Effects, iLife Sound Effects, GarageBand and iTunes. Or you can use the Search field to find the audio file you want by name.

Step 3 Add background music to iMovie

After finding the audio you want to add as background sound, it's time to add audio to videos in iMovie. Click on targeted sound, hold and drag it to your project while making sure you don't drag it over a clip. When you see the green Add (+) symbol, you can release the mouse button. The music begins at the start of your project and ends with your video.

If the added song is longer than your video, a music indicator appears above the last element in the Project browser.

If the music doesn't cover you're the entire video, you can add more music by dragging it to background music well of your project. iMovie will automatically add a one-second cross-fade between the clips where they meet.

Step 4 Adjust background music

Now you can edit and adjust the background music in iMovie so that the music can begin somewhere in the middle of the song, etc. Choose the background music clip, click the gear and choose "Clip Trimmer", "Clip Adjustments" and "Audio Adjustments" to customize your iMovie background music. You can trim the music, adjust the volume and set audio fade in, fade out effects, etc.

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Part 2. How to add music to iMovie alternative (Recommended)

Apart from iMovie, you can also use an iMovie alternative to apply audio effects to polish your video. Video Converter Ultimate is a much more powerful video editor that enables you to add external audio track to video within simple steps. It also provides extensive amount of audio effects, visual effects and more features you can use to make the best of your video. Now free download this video editing tool and learn how to add background music to video as below.

Step 1 Download, install and open this all-featured audio adding program on your computer.

Step 2 Click "Add Files" on the menu bar to select and load video(s) to this software.

Step 3 Click "Add Audio Track" to add the audio track to your video. You are also allowed to add subtitles to the video.

Step 4 Choose the suitable output video format from the drop-down list of "Convert All to". Then click "Convert All" button to confirm the operation of adding audio to video. Within just a few clicks, you can easily add background music to video or replace the original audio track.

Part 3. FAQs of adding audio to iMovie