3 Music for your Music Video

Making Music for your Video in Mixcraft using the library of sounds

• You will be using MIXCRAFT to make the music.  

• You need 2-3 tracks of music (3 tracks is preferred)

• MIXCRAFT SETTINGS:    On the opening screen of Mixcraft 7: make "audio tracks" tracks set to 3, make "Instrumental tracks" set to 0, make "Mode" set to TIME (not BEATS), and make "Snap Setting" to 1/8 Notes.

• You will be using pre-made loops from the "Loop Library" using the "Song Kit" or "Style" Filter

• Make your music at least 10-20 seconds longer than your pictures are in your video (ex: pics with transitions, etc... last for 2:20 so you should make your music in MIXCRAFT 7 at least 2:30-2:40 so you have plenty of music to adjust once it is in the MP3 format and you do your music production in MovieMaker)

• Please use the 3 Music for Your Video link for how to make your music into MP3 format so you can use it in your video.

Audio (Importing your MP3 file of your Mixcraft 7 project)

• Make sure you saved your Mixcraft Project to an MP3 file by using the "MIX DOWN TO" feature under "FILE" in the Mixcraft program.  If you did not do this, you must re-open your Mixcraft 7 project and do so.

• Watch the video on Music for Music Video

• First you want to import your saved music by clicking on “Import Audio or Music” and follow the same steps you did to import pictures (see above if you forget).

• After you import the audio into the collection you may insert the audio into the timeline by dragging it down to the audio line and placing it where you want it to begin.

• Change the length of the music by clicking on it, going to the end and dragging it as short as needed (this won’t sound perfect but it does work ok if you have it fade out).

• It may fade in or fade out by right clicking on the music and selecting the one you want.