iPhone Video Editing - How to edit Music & Audio (in Splice)
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Date: 2020-04-21

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How to edit music on splice app

Music & video is a topic so many people struggle with.

The main problem is always where do you get music from and are you allowed to use it?

The great thing about Splice is it comes with an extensive music library.

There are of course loads of other places you can get free usable music like Youtube.

Once your clips are in the timeline and in the right order it’s time to add music to your edit.
How to add music to a splice video
In your timeline there are two secondary tracks.

The one is for your text the other is for your sounds.

You can have multiple sounds in the track at the same time, like music, a voice over & sound effects.

See how there are 3 levels there. I can tap on this to goggle between them.

Four our purposes lets just work towards adding one.

When you want to add music place the video playhead at the part where you want your music track to start.

Then hit the music option in your main menu.

Select your track.

And choose the Add option.

The music will be brought into the second track below the video clips.

How to trim music on splice
Once your music is in the timeline you can edit it just like you would a video clip.

You can watch that video in the link in the card now.

First make sure you have selected the audio track selected.
YOu know you got this right if you can see it displayed.

Displayed and not Displayed.  Displayed.

Once you can see the blue audio track you can change it, adjust its volume, trim it, duplicate it, split it ….  All the same things you can do to the video.

You can also shift it on the timeline by dragging and dropping it in a new place.

Remember to also check if your track is shorter or longer than your video.

You may need to trim off the back end to match the length of the video.

Another thing to note is that you can only edit one item in the second track at a time. 

This is important if you have multiple pieces of audio which will happen when you want to do an Audio fade in and out.

How to fade music in splice
There are two situations that require you to fade music.

The first is very simple: when the track needs to come to an end.

If the music is longer than it needs to be you don’t want it to just suddenly cut out.

You want it to gently fade out.

You will find this function in the volume option in the sound submenu.

Make sure you have selected the correct audio track to edit.

Then select the volume option.

Here you can adjust the master volume of the track and the fade in and out.

These two options on the right are your fades.

Tap to toggle the fade on and off.

The second reason you want to fade is a little more complicated.

This is when you want the music to drop down to let a talking video clip be heard, and then return back to music.

The music needs to be turned down in this isolated part only.

The way to do this is to use the split tool.

You need to select the music track.

Find the part where it needs to start being softer and make a split there.

I will use his clip here where the man is talking.

Split the music at the start of the clip.

Select the new split off part and find the part where it should end and get lounder again.

Make another split here.

The piece in the middle (beneath the talking video clip) can now be volume adjusted to about 30% of the normal full volume.

When you play the video it will now beautifully drop and rise as needed.


Very very important note:

You need to be sure your edit is all ready before you do these split adjustments.

If you make any changes to the edit, like shorten or remove a clip the audio fade you created will not align correctly with the corresponding part.

You will have to delete the track and start again.  

Then there is something else you will want to consider when it comes to volume control and fading that we will look at in the next section.

Separating sound from a video clip

Well this is not exactly about music editing, but it will enhance the feeling of your video’s audio visual experience.

When you have completed your audio fades you need to listen to your video again and decide if any of your other video clips need muting.

Sometimes it can be highly annoying to have the ambient sounds of a video clip poke through the music.

Option A - Select the clip you want to mute and go to the Volume option in the submenu.

Slide to zero volume.

Option B - Select the clip you want to mute and go to the Extract option in the submenu.

Extract it.

Now Slide the volume to zero on the extracted audio, or just delete it.

I know this is a bit of a laborious task, but it will make your final edit much cleaner.

You will also need this Option B when you want to start using B-Roll footage over talking clips. More on that in another video.