How to add background music to a video from mobile

Sometimes, although we are not going to achieve it in life, when we record videos with our mobile phone we feel a bit Spielberg. Sometimes we even dare to make a small montage with what we recorded, even at the end we end up adding music to the video. If in your case this is the only thing that chokes you, we will explain how to do it quickly and easily. We are going to add background music to our video from the mobile thanks, of course, to a third-party application that we can download from the Google Play Store. The tool is called VivaVideo and you have it for free, with ads and limitations, but for a quick assembly it may be worth it. The size of the app may vary by device.

We proceed to explain, step by step, how to put music to a video from your mobile. It is very simple and you only need your mobile and the VivaVideo application.

Put music to your video from your mobile

Once we have it installed on our mobile, we open it. We allow the application access to the storage of our phone. If not, it will be impossible for you to handle the videos we have saved. Once we have clicked on 'Start' and agree with its terms and conditions, we will be welcomed to the application and invited to try all the premium functions it contains for free, such as being able to export the video in HD quality and without brand of water, among others. If you don't want to try, click on the 'x' icon that you will find at the top left of the screen.

How to choose the video

Now, in the 'Edit' section we are going to choose the video to which we want to put the music. In this section, the application will detect the videos that you currently have saved on your mobile. A warning that we have to give you: you will only be able to edit the videos that, in fact, you have saved at that moment in the storage of your mobile. So, if you have any video in the cloud (like Google Photos) and you want to edit it, you will have to download it first. In the 'Edit video' tab you can also connect the social networks of Facebook and Instagram in case you want to import videos and edit them.

If you cannot find the video you want to edit and you sure have it stored in a folder on your internal storage, we are going to go to the 'Other album' tab and 'Search for more videos? click, then accessing the section ' Explore folders '. When we have found the file we select it and click on 'Start exploring'. Next, click on the 'Media' folder and there should be, finally, the video to which we want to put music.

Starting to add music to your video

In the next screen that appears after having chosen the video we have the classic timeline on which the video in question is developed. On this screen we can cut the video to keep only the part that interests us and rotate it in case it is offered on its side. If we want it as it is exported, all that remains is to add the music. So, click on 'Add'. We will see a notice that the video, in the free version of the application, must last a maximum of five minutes. This is the most important screen, the one for editing the piece.

As we are really interested in adding music to the video, we are going to ignore all the other options. However, if you are interested in video editing, we recommend that you take a look at the rest of the options. To add the music to the video, we must press, in the lower bar of the screen, the second icon 'Music'. You will see how a small legend appears at the bottom in which we can read 'Play to add background music'.

On the next screen we can choose both music suggested by the application itself, music from the application itself that we have downloaded to our phone or explore the content of the internal storage in search of music, in the 'Library' option. In this tutorial we are going to stay with the music offered by the application itself, which, in addition, is ordered by genres such as 'Rock', 'R&B and Soul', 'Hip Hop and Rap'… Try to select the genre that best suits video styleto which you want to put the music so that the result is more effective. One of the most interesting sections in terms of musical categories is that of 'Cinematographic', because, depending on the type of video we have, we can add a small 'soundtrack' according to the scene, whether it is a dramatic video, or horror, epic, etc. To listen to the music, click on its duration or its title and that's it. When we have it already selected we are going to click on the download arrow and lower it.

Now, we are going to go to the 'Downloaded' tab and the music that we want to add to the video in question should appear. Click on the title of the music. The music will be played automatically so that we can verify if it is precisely that. With the bars that we find in the playback line, we can limit the part of the music that we want to add to the video, in case we are only interested in a fragment of it. When we are ready click on 'Add'.

Seeing the final result

We return to the edit screen '. If we click on 'Play' we can see how the final result of the video has been. If we want to undo the editing of the video, we just have to click on the top of it where it reads ' Click on undo '. To download the result of our masterpiece, we click on 'Share' and then save it to the gallery or share it with our friends on social networks or messaging services such as WhatsApp. Remember that the free version of VivaVideo only allows you to save the video in 480p and with a watermark. While exporting the video make sure not to close the application.

If you prefer to opt for the Pro version, to export the video at 720p and without ads or watermarks, you can download it from the Play Store at a price of 3.70 euros.