Hello, this is Cristi. This is a very quick, absolute beginner tutorial for Camtasia showing
you how you can add background music in Camtasia on a project you're working on.
So if you have a series of videos, I'm importing a video here, two videos actually,
making a slide show from these videos, just playing one after the other.
It's really not important, you can add many video, as many as you like. So these are both
on the timeline here, each one on its own track if you want, or both of them on the same track,
it doesn't really matter. So to add background music, you need to bring in your audio file.
So you can bring in an MP3 file or a WAV file, you can click on this plus sign here in the Media Bin
on the left, you can go to Media Bin and import it right here from disk. You can
click on this button to import media, or you can just drag the sound file from disk right into the
Media Bin here. You can see the audio file there, its own its own category.
And then you need to bring this down to your timeline on its own track. That's
all it takes. The audio track lives on its own track right down there or at the
top above it. It doesn't really matter how many tracks you have.
Just bring the audio here and drop it. So you can see my audio file is longer than my videos.
So let's see if it's playing now.
The audio file is playing, but if I were to export this project right now, I would actually
get a three and a half minute clip with just these two videos playing at the start, and then
a black screen. So if I want my audio to stop when the video stops, all I need to do is use my mouse
wheel to zoom in to the point where my video stops and place my play head at the very end,
right there. Select the audio track, and then you can use this scissor icon to split or cut
the rest of the video by selecting the rest of it, using this red marker like so, and
pressing the slice, the Cut tool like this, and I have cut the rest of the clip.
Another way you can do it, I will undo here. If you go to the end of your video,
select the audio clip and press this Slice tool or Split tool like so, or you can press the S key.
This will cut the audio right there. Make sure just the audio track is selected and then click
on the bit that is at the end and press Delete to remove it. Now, your project is only 40 seconds or
how many seconds your video clip is. And then you see the audio stops right there with the video.
To prevent the audio from cutting off abruptly,
you can actually go to Audio effects and use a Fade out transition, like so. Just drag
the Fade out transition to the audio track like so. And now the audio will fade out.
So that's all it takes to add audio background, audio to a video project in Camtasia. If your
videos have sound of their own and you don't want that to be part of the project,
all you need to do is right-click on the video and silence the audio just for those clips.
Thank you for watching. I hope this tutorial was useful, let me know in the comments you have any
questions and subscribe to my channel for more beginner Camtasia tutorials.