How to Add music to Youtube

Date August 3, 2017 Author Catherine Category YouTube

As the biggest video share website, Youtube makes the video life more colorful, we can get various videos everyday. We all want to record the wonderful video and share with friends on Youtube. Sometimes, we reaord the video without nice music which really affects the video enjoyment, you can add the music to Youtube video by 2 ways: One way is to add the music after the video has been uploaded. One way is to added the music to video before you upload the video to Youtube. Which is easier ane better? Everyone’s choice is different, following will tell you these 2 solutions, you can choose one by your own need.

Solution A: Add Music to Youtube Video Via Youtube Website

When you have uploaded the silent video to Youtube, then you want to add the background music to video for naking the video fun and getting more views, you can realize this goal on Youtube platform, some steps are a little complicated, you need to be patient, follow the guide and complete the hard task.

Step 1. Here don’t be necessary to sped much time, you just need to log in your Youtube account and find the Youtube video you want to add music from your Youtube channel.

Step 2. Open the Yputube video in the video player, then click the Video Manager whicbh is at the bottom of the video player.

Step 3. Click on Edit next to the selected video you want to add music to, then choose Audio, following you have 2 choices to choose your desired music:

Option 1: Under the Featured Tracks, choose the one music  genres you like, such as: Hip hop & Rap, then open the list and select your favourite music, also you can search for the music with the Search bar.

Option 1: You also can browse "YouTube Audio Library" and using the Search bar to choose anyone music you like.

NOTE: Before adding a track to your video, you should compare the duration of video file and audio file. You can see the duration list next to each audio track on playlist.

Step 4. Click on the selected music track from the playlist on right to add it to your selected video on left side.

Tips: Audio Editing

• Click on Position audio, you can adjust the audio and video’s position and length
• Trim the audio file duration by dragging the mouse.

Step 5: After the music setting is done, click "Save" or "Save as" to publish the edited video with the added background music.

Solution B: Add Music to Youtube Video Via Third Software

Most users are not satisfied with above steps which are really complicated and needs much time, you can download the video and save it to your PC, with a third tool, you can add the music to video quickly, within 1 minutes, unbelievable? Pavtube Video Converter can help you to do the difficult job, which is a professional video and audio converter, you can add the music to the video effortlessly, also when you get some audio files which are not supported by Youtube, you can convert them to Youtbe acceptable audio format easily, 1 minutes, you cna finish this work, like the following shows:

Step 1. Load the video file

You can load the recorded video form camera, DJI drone or your PC, also you can download the Youtube video and add it to this software

Step 2. Choose music file

You can click Setting button which is with a built-in video editing, you can dress up the video by yourself, for example: You can add watermark to video, addsubtitles to video, adjust the video backgound color, brightness, etc. How to add music to video? Select Audio Editor and check the Enable, then you can select the music fron your PC by clicking Browse. You also can adjust the Audio Fade effect: Bigger and Bigger or lower and lower.

Tips: If you upload the video to Youtube with added music, then you can’t hear the music, most reason is the audio compatibility issue, you can check the audio format and convert it to Youtube supported audio formats in this software, like the below picture.

Youtube Supported file formats:

• MP3 audio in MP3/WAV container
• PCM audio in WAV container
• AAC audio in MOV container
• FLAC audio

Step 3. Start Adding music to video process

After all the settings are finished, go back to the main interface and click Convert, wait for a while, you can get a perfect video with your favourite music, then you can upload the video to Youtube.

Which way do you like best? I think the way 2 is easy to do, even you are a PC beginner, you cna complete it smoothly. By the way, this software is also a video converter, when you can’t upload the video to Youtube because of the video compatibility, you can find the best solutions ar here.