How do I add music to videos?

[Greenchicken_13]

I wasn't sure where to put this but I decided to put it in this forum. I would like to know how to add music to videos? Is there a program that I can use and is it a diffacult process?

[andrew_carter]

Download VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org) and go from there. John Childs (is there meant to be an 'e' in there?) introduced me to it a while ago and I think it's almost perfect for making simple movies. When you've got it running, click on the 'Audio' tab and then on 'Full processing mode'. Then you can click on either WAV Audio or AVI Audio to add the music. If you need to resize a song, you can use Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net) to cut bits out and play around with it. You can also make a fade out at the end to cover up any cuts you make. It's really handy.

Are you making a movie?

Good luck,
Andrew

[john_childs]

Originally posted by andrew_carter

John Childs (is there meant to be an 'e' in there?)

What 'e'? Where? There's no 'e' in my name.

There is a good video guide here: Luke's Video Guide (http://www.lukesvideo.com/)
It covers all the basics for capturing and encoding a video. It even covers a little bit on how to edit the audio.

[andrew_carter]

For some strange reason I thought it might have been John Childes.

Andrew

[joe]

Audacity dont work for me! I downloaded it, but it wont open any of my audio. What am i doing wrong?

Please help!

Cheers,

joe,

[James_Potter]

If you have Windows XP, then there is already a very simple Movie Editor on your computer. It's in the Start Menu. But there's an updated version, go to www.microsoft.com and click on Windows Movie Maker 2 to download it.

[andrew_carter]

Well for me, Audacity doesn't open .wma files which means I can't play around with any of the songs I've put onto the computer from CD via Windows Media Player.

Does anyone know of a program other than Windows Media Player that lets you copy songs from CD's onto the computer? It would need to be able to save them as .mp3 files. If that's not possible, I need a program that can convert .wma files to .mp3 ones.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Andrew

[Greenchicken_13]

Thanks for all the help.

[john_childs]

Originally posted by andrew_carter
Does anyone know of a program other than Windows Media Player that lets you copy songs from CD's onto the computer? It would need to be able to save them as .mp3 files. If that's not possible, I need a program that can convert .wma files to .mp3 ones.

CDex (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/) can rip the audio off a CD and save it as WAV files, MP3 files, WMA files, and other compressed audio formats. CDex can also theoretically convert WMA files into WAV files or MP3 files, but when I tried that feature it just crashed. It looks like CDex doesn't handle WMA files very well. However, if you stick to MP3 and WAV files it does an almost perfect job.

Ditch the WMA files and instead rip your CDs to MP3. MP3 is more portable and better supported by software applications. If you're going to be editing a song with Audacity you should rip the song to a WAV file and edit the WAV in Audacity. Doing audio editing on a compressed audio file like an MP3 or WMA is just wrong. Edit the uncompressed WAV file, you'll get better results. After you're done you can compress the WAV into an MP3.

[andrew_carter]

Thanks a lot, once again, John. :)

Andrew