Are you fond of shooting a video with your smartphone or camera or recording a video tutorial on the desktop? Do you want to make better videos, what will you do? As far as I am concerned, I would like to cut the video and remove unpleasant parts, add special effects, etc. Of course, adding background music to a video is a nice choice. In this tutorial, you will get two easy ways to add background music to a video clip. Scroll down to get more detailed information.
Part 1. How to Add Background Music to a Video Clip with TunesKit
If you plan to add an audio file to your video, a video editor to help you a lot. There are a number of video editing tools on the market, and if you just need some basic editing, an easy-to-use video editor is what you need. TunesKit Video Cutter is such a program.
As its name shows, TunesKit is well-known as a video cutter due to it can trim any video and audio with no quality loss. Still better, it is actually a video editor as well, which allows you to split, merge, crop, rotate, and flip any video and audio file. With the help of it, you can also enhance your movie by adding background music, special effects, subtitles, etc. Besides, this software is easy to use, and anyone can use it even if he/she doesn't have any relative experience before.
- Add background music to video with high quality
- Support almost all media formats and many compatible devices
- With an intuitive interface and be user-friendly
- Available for both Windows and Mac computers
Now you can follow the step-by-step instruction on how to add background music to a video via TunesKit Video Cutter for Windows.
Step 1 Import target video file to TunesKit
Double-click to launch TunesKit Video Cutter after installation and then hit the "Open" button to import a video file that you want to add the music file to. Of course, you can also simply drag and drop the file into the program.
Step 2 Add background music to video
After importing your video file, TunesKit will play it automatically in its inbuilt video player. Now you can press on the Edit icon beside the video clip to open a new window. You can see six options for editing, and choose the "Audio" in the last position.
Now click the Open File icon 
under the File option to browse a music file from your local folder and you can pre-hear it then. Tick the "Repeat" box if the duration of the music file is shorter than the video file while you want the background music playing all the time. You can also adjust the "Volume" and "Weight" of the music file or add special sound effects for your audio. Once the settings are ready, click the OK button in the lower right corner.
Step 3 Choose an output mode
Next, click the "Format" panel and you will see two output modes. To add background music to the video, you need to choose the Encoding Mode to edit your video. You can choose an output format or device according to your needs and then hit the OK button to proceed.
Step 4 Start the conversion
Now hit the Start button and TunesKit will start to add background music to the video. Once the process is done, you can locate the polished video from the history folder.
Part 2. How to Add Background Music to Video Online for Free
As for those who don't want to download any software on the computer, you can use free online tools to add music to the video. If you search on Google, you will get many results and here we will take Kapwing as an example. Now follow me to get the specific steps about how to add an audio file to a video clip online.
Step 1 Upload the video file
Go to the official website of Kapwing and click the Upload button to import the video that you want to add an audio file to. More conveniently, you can also paste a URL in the box up to load an online video.
Step 2 Add MP3 file to the video
Next, click the white box to upload an MP3 file from the local folder and you can also drag-and-drop it, or paste an audio or video file URL from the Internet.
Step 3 Create a new video with music
On the next page, you can trim the music file, adjust volume, or loop audio based on your needs. After that, click the red Create Video button and wait a while until the process finishes.
Note: After the video is processed completely, your new video inserted background music will be added watermark automatically. If you want to remove the Kapwing watermark, you need to sign in with your Facebook or Google account. Of curse, if you don't mind the company logo, you can click the Download button to export it to your computer.
Conclusion & Suggestion
Now you've got two methods to add background music to a video file efficiently. Which one do you prefer? In my opinion, Kapwing is free of cost, but it also has its limitations. For example, Kapwing will insert its company logo on your exported work; it only supports limited input video and audio formats; the speed to upload and download will be slow if your file is in large size, etc. Thus, if you do care more about the quality, you can try TunesKit Video Cutter, which will enhance your video to a better one.
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