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Add Background Music to a Narrated Video
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In short
- Pick a track from the built-in library in the Music tab. Nothing to license or upload.
- Ducking drops the music while the narrator speaks and lifts it back in the gaps.
- If your recording had its own sound, you can play that underneath too.
- Music is optional.
You can add background music to a video. It plays softly under the narration for the whole video. Good music adds polish without getting in the way.
Pick a track
Open Customize and go to the Music tab. ScreenDub includes a built-in library of more than twenty tracks across many moods: corporate, presentation, ambient, lofi, piano, upbeat, and more. The tracks are cleared for use in your videos, so you do not need to license or upload your own.
Listen before you apply
Press play on any track to hear it on its own. Find the one that fits, then select it. Nothing is applied to your video until you pick it.
Set the volume
You control how loud the music sits. Keep it low so the narration stays clear. The music is meant to sit under the voice, not compete with it.
Ducking
Ducking drops the music automatically while the narrator is speaking and lifts it back up in the gaps. It is the difference between music that fights the voice and music that supports it. Leave it on unless you want a flat, constant bed.
Your recording's own sound
If your screen recording captured audio, you can play that under the narration too. The Music tab has its own volume and ducking controls for it. This is useful when the recording has app sounds, a video playing on screen, or a click track worth keeping.
This option is hidden for slide decks and for recordings with no sound of their own.
No music
Music is optional. Choose no track at all and keep just the narration.
Next steps
Shape the opening and the chapter cards in Titles & chapters.
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