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How to add music to a video

Press Audio on the library bar, drop a track onto the timeline, then let Sound → Auto Edit fit it to the film and duck it under the voices. A mixer with loudness metering, EQ and a limiter keeps the whole thing even.

  1. Add the music. Press Audio on the library bar: your imported sounds and the built-in ones. Drag one onto the track, or press + Audio to import an MP3, WAV, AAC or FLAC — a video file’s sound is pulled out on the way in.
  2. Fit it to the film. Open Sound and pick the music’s strip in the Mixer: Fit music trims a long track to the end of the film with a fade, or loops a short one with equal-power crossfades into a new file.
  3. Duck it under speech. Sound → Auto Edit → Auto-duck reads the clip’s own sound and lowers the music while someone speaks, bringing it back between lines. The amount and the speed are sliders; the export carries it.
  4. Set the levels. In the Mixer each sound has a fader, mute and solo, and a meter. Normalise measures a strip in LUFS (the broadcast way) and sets it to −14 for online video, −16 for a podcast or −23 for broadcast — held back if the peaks would clip.
  5. Shape it. Click a sound cut and open Adjustments: fades in and out, a level over time lane you draw on, pan and tone lanes, EQ, compressor, reverb and echo. Sound presets (Podcast voice, Phone call, Old radio, Stadium PA) are one click.
  6. Cut to the beat, if you like. Sound → Auto Edit → Beats finds the tempo and marks every beat on the ruler (or across the whole project); Montage to the beat gives every clip one cut of two, four or eight beats, in order. Undo brings the old cuts back.

Making music and sound effects

Sound → Make sound writes a sound effect (from half a second to 22 seconds) or a music bed (5 seconds to 5 minutes) from a description — 22 credits for an effect, 15 a minute for music — and lands it in the Media drawer as an ordinary sound. A licensed music library is not part of the editor; your own files and the built-in sounds are free.

Keeping the voices clear

Sound → Voice has noise reduction, a noise gate, a de-esser and an isolation filter for the spoken parts; AI voice split (12 credits a minute) separates the voice from the background so each can be mixed on its own.

Every mixer setting bakes into the export, including the frame-accurate renderer, which rebuilds the whole chain offline.

Open the editor

Questions

Can I use any music?

Any file you have the rights to. The built-in sounds are free to use in your videos; a copyrighted song still needs its owner’s permission on the platforms you post to.

How loud should the music be under speech?

Auto-duck usually lands it 12–18 dB under the voice. Normalise the voice strip to −14 LUFS first, then let the duck set the music.

Does the music fade at the end?

Fit music adds a fade-out when it trims the track; a fade on any sound cut can be dragged longer in Adjustments.

Is this free?

Yes — mixing, ducking, fades, EQ and the beat cut are free. Only Make sound and AI voice split use credits.

Last reviewed 3 October 2026.