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How to post YouTube videos on Instagram [Easiest way – 2021]

Are you thinking of repurposing a YouTube video on Instagram? Well, YouTube videos can be repurposed directly to WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and a few other major social media networks. However, YouTube doesn’t provide an option of repurposing the videos to Instagram directly.

In this article, you will learn how to repurpose YouTube videos on Instagram in three simple steps

Step 1: Downloading the YouTube video
Step 2: Customizing the video for Instagram
Step 3: Uploading the video to your Instagram account

STEP 1: Downloading the YouTube video

There are several ways to download YouTube videos. The simplest way is to use a third-party website like savefrom.net or ytmp3

Copy and paste the YouTube video link in either of the above websites and download

STEP 2: Customizing the video for Instagram

Instagram allows us to share videos as Reels, Story, IGTV, and Post. Each one of these content types has requirements that have to be met before you can successfully upload it to your Instagram account.

The requirements are as below

For IGTV:

Video duration has to be at least 1 minute long
The maximum length can be 15 mins (when uploading from a mobile device) or 60 mins (when uploading from the web)
You can upload in 9:16 aspect ratio (1080 pixels x 1920 pixels) (Vertical video) or You can upload in 16:9 aspect ratio (1920 x 1080 pixels) (Horizontal video). We recommend uploading in the vertical format as most of the content on Instagram will be consumed from a mobile phone
And in terms of output quality, the video has to be at least 720p

For Reels:

Video duration can be from 15 – 60 seconds
The aspect ratio should be 9:16 (1080 pixels x 1920 pixels)

For Story:

Video duration can be up to 15 seconds
The aspect ratio should be 9:16 (1080 pixels x 1920 pixels)

For Posts:

Video duration can be up to 60 seconds
Aspect ratio should be 1:1 (1080 pixels x 1080 pixels) or 4:5 (1080 pixels x 1350 pixels)

As you can see, a 9:16 vertical video is the best-suited video type to be posted for Reels, Story, IGTV and a 1:1 square video is the best-suited video type for Instagram posts.

So now, we’ll show how to customize your horizontal YouTube video for both aspect ratios.

Customizing the video for Instagram Reels, Story, and IGTV
Customizing the video for Instagram Posts

Customizing the video for Instagram Reels, Story, and IGTV

This is the sample YouTube video that we are going to repurpose on Instagram and I have downloaded the video to my PC using

In this instance, we aim to generate traffic back to the YouTube channel using an Instagram Story.

Let’s see how we can customize the video for Instagram Story

1. Head over to the Instagram Video Maker from Animaker and sign up for a free account.

2. After logging in, you will be redirected to the application’s Dashboard. Under the section Create Project, you can see the different types of projects that can be created using Animaker.

3. To create an Instagram Story, IGTV, or Reels, click on the Vertical video. You will be prompted to choose between a blank canvas and templates to create your video. Since we are planning to customize our YouTube video into an Instagram Story video, click on the Blank option.

4. On choosing the Blank option, a new blank project will open in the application. This is the interface of the Animaker app where you can edit and repurpose your videos.

5. Towards the left-hand side, is the Library section. You will find the Upload option at the bottom of it. Once you click on it, you can select and upload the YouTube video you want from your PC.Note: YouTube videos are of horizontal video format with 16:9 ratio.

6. After uploading, clicking on the video will automatically convert it into a vertical video and fit inside the workspace. Once you click on the video in the workspace, you will notice a set of options. This is called the Item menu and it gives us the options to edit the video.

7. While the video changes from horizontal to vertical video format, certain parts of the video may get cropped because of the change in the aspect ratio. But do not worry. You can always use the Resize feature from the Item Menu and adjust the specific part of the video that has to be visible. Click on the Resize option and you will be able to control the part of the video that will appear within the workspace. But if you want to totally avoid the video getting cropped, use the Resize option to reduce the size of the video and keep it at the center of the workspace and then click apply. Now you can use the space above and below the video to add a Title text or a call to action text. But before adding text, let’s change the background color to make the video look better. To change the color of the background, click anywhere on the white region of the workspace and you can see a new color palette option appearing at the bottom. Click on the edit option over it, and choose the new color that you want to add to the background. Click the green tick icon to apply. In our case, we are choosing the Black color for the background.

8. To add text, click the Text section on the library. From this section, you can choose a blank text box or pick from a list of pre-built text designs that come with pre-applied animation effects.

Let’s see how to use one of the text boxes to add text to the video. Just click on one of the plain text boxes you like, and it will appear in the center of the workspace. To edit the text, click over it again and type in the new text. Since we want to drive traffic to our YouTube video from our Instagram story, let’s use “SWIPE UP” as the call to action text to this video. Once you have typed “Swipe Up” in the text box, click on the settings option that appears on the right side. Using the options available in the settings menu, you can change the font style, color, spacing, and even the transparency of the text. Let’s change the font style and font color for better visibility and keep it at the bottom of the workspace. You will also notice a purple bar in the timeline. You can just drag and adjust its length to control the duration for which the text will appear on this story video. For example, If I want the text to appear after the first two seconds, I have to drag the left edge of the purple bar and move it to the 2s mark on the timeline. Likewise, you can control the entry time and exit time of any text using the edges that are available at both ends of the purple bar.

The next step after this is to add entry and exit effects for the “Swipe Up” text we just added to our project. To do this, head over to the bottom section of the settings menu. The two options ‘Enter effect’ and ‘Exit effect’ let you add enter and exit animation effects to your text. Click on the enter effect option and you can find more than 50+ different text animation effects that can be applied to this text. Here we are selecting “Pop left” as the Enter effect for the text.

After applying the enter effect, you will notice a new pink-colored part within the purple bar in the timeline. This will let you control the duration of the text’s Enter effect. In the same way, we can apply an Exit animation effect for the text. But for this text, we don’t want any exit animation effect so we are not choosing any effect.

Now let’s add an icon to compliment the “Swipe Up” CTA text. We can use the properties option from the library section to add an arrow icon. Also, let’s apply a suitable Enter effect like “Pop Top”, to the arrow, to make it more engaging for the audience.

Similar to how we adjusted the time of entry for the swipe-up text, you can use the purple bar in the timeline to adjust the duration at which the arrow will appear in the video. And similar to the Swipe up text, use the right edge of the pink bar to adjust the Enter effect duration of the arrow.

Now let’s also add a Title for this Instagram story. Let’s type the YouTube video’s title “ 5 Most Scenic Sunsets on the West Coast “ and place the text box at the top of the video. Use the settings menu that appears on the right side to modify the text color, font style, etc. Adjust the purple bar in the timeline to set the duration at which the text will be seen on the video.

9. Use the Trim feature in the Item Menu to customize the overall duration of the video. Once you click on the trim feature, you can see a pop-up of the video with options to trim it. Drag the purple edges in the timeline to trim the video. Since we are creating an Instagram Story video, set the duration to less than 15 seconds (the max duration for Instagram Story is 15 seconds). Then click on the Green tick icon to apply the changes.

10. Now let’s preview what we have made. Using the Preview button in the menu bar, we can see how the scene looks.

11. Once everything is done, click on the Publish button in the top right corner. From the options shown, select the Download Video option to download the video.

12. Clicking on Download Video, the project will be redirected to the export page. Click on the Download button to save the video directly to your PC.

Now that you know everything you need to customize the video to suit an Instagram story, let’s look at how to customize a video to fit an Instagram post.

Customizing the video for Instagram Posts

In this instance, we are going to repurpose a YouTube video on Instagram. We aim to generate traffic back to the YouTube channel using an Instagram Post. Let’s see how to customize the YouTube video (of 16:9 aspect ratio) into an Instagram square video of 1:1 ratio,

1. Head over to the Instagram Video Maker from Animaker and sign up for a free account

2. In the Animaker application’s Dashboard, under the section Create Project, select the Square video format.

3. You will be prompted to choose between a blank canvas and templates to create your video. Since we are planning to customize our YouTube video into an Instagram video, click on the Blank option.

4. On choosing the Blank option, a new project window will appear. This is the interface of the Animaker app where you can edit your videos.

6. After uploading, clicking on the video will automatically convert it into a square video and fit inside the workspace. Also, an Item Menu will now be visible in the workspace which lets us edit the uploaded video.

7. While the video changes from horizontal to Square video format, certain parts of the video may get cropped because of the change in the aspect ratio. But do not worry. You can always use the Resize feature from the Item Menu and adjust the specific part of the video that has to be visible.
But if you want to avoid the video getting cropped at all, use the Resize option to reduce the size of the video and keep it at the center of the workspace and then click apply.

In our case, we have Resized the video to the center of the workspace and then clicked Apply.

8. Click in the empty white region of the workspace and an option for editing the background color will be available at the bottom of the screen. Select the suitable color and click the green tick button to confirm. In our case, let’s stick with the default white background color.

9. You can also add text over the video by using the Text section from the library. Once you click on the text section you will have two more options to add text. On the bottom, you can find the pre-built text designs that come with pre-applied animation effects. And plain text at the top that can be customized according to our needs. By clicking on the plain text, a new text box will be added to the workspace. Click on it further and you would be able to type the text that you want to add. We can also drag and move it anywhere within the workspace.

The settings tab appears on the right side. Using these options you can change the font style, color, spacing, and even the transparency of the text.

And at the bottom of the settings, the two options ‘Enter effect’ and ‘Exit effect’ let you add enter and exit animation effects to the text. You will also notice a purple bar in the timeline. You can just drag and adjust its length to control the duration of the text.

In this instance, for our Instagram Square video post, let’s type the title “ Make your breakfast in under a minute ” at the top of the video and add the YouTube channel name ” @YT_YourHomeChef” as the watermark and place it in the bottom space of the video.

10. Use the Trim feature in the Item Menu to customize the duration of the video. According to the Instagram duration requirements (Instagram Square Video Posts can be 60 secs long), drag the edges to trim the duration and click on the Green tick button.
Using the Preview button in the top menu, we can view the changes made to the scene.

11. Once everything is done, click on the Publish button in the top right corner. From the options shown, select the Download Video option to download the video.

STEP 3: Uploading the video to your Instagram account

There are two different ways to upload videos onto Instagram. Let’s see how to publish your videos using both methods.

Using a PC or Mac
Using a Smartphone

1. Using PC or Mac

Only IGTV videos can be uploaded from PC. Follow the instructions below,

- Visit www.instagram.com on your PC or Mac browser and log in to your Instagram account

- In the profile page, under the IGTV section, click on the Upload button

- You will be redirected to the Add new IGTV video section

- Upload the video either by drag and drop or click on the add button and browse for the video on your PC.
- Choose a Cover photo and Enter other details – Title and description once everything is completed, click on the Post button.

2. Using a smartphone

Instagram mobile application (Android & iOS) allows uploading the videos to your Instagram account as Reels, Story, IGTV, and Posts. Follow the instructions below

- Transfer the edited video onto your smartphone from your PC.
- Login in to your Instagram account, click on the add button at the top right corner in the profile page as shown below

- This will pop up the different create options from the bottom of the screen. Choose the one according to your requirement. Here, for instance, we have chosen “Story” under the Create option.

Now choose the required video from the Gallery section. And click on the “Your Story” option to publish the video as Instagram Story.

The video will be uploaded successfully and will be visible in your profile now.

Kudos! You have learned to post your YouTube videos on Instagram. So why wait? Up your IG game with Animaker.

Top 10 Zoom marketplace tools for startups

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Undeniably, online meetings have become indispensable during this pandemic. Virtual Team collaboration applications are now at the heart of all businesses. They enable business owners to ensure that their workforce remains productive and thrive through video, file sharing, chat, in any environment. Videos keep alluring the masses and classes- globally. Moreover, Video has been there far too long. It’s one of the few benefits of this pathetic pandemic. This acceptance has caused Zoom and other video providers to pop and rise their fortune in recent times. Essentially, the market is growing. Remote work may be here to stay!

With the current situation posing challenges to businesses everyday Zoom has gone the extra mile to solve them more effectively with its ease of use.

10 Cool tools to enhance zoom experience:

Zoom shows off new ways to its consumers to take their Zoom experience to the next level through its long list of apps available to download in the Zoom App Marketplace. If you’re looking to make Zoom an indispensable part of your day-to-day remote work life, then one or more of these apps will be useful.

Similar to browser extensions, these apps are available to users without having to leave and open them elsewhere. Most of these apps are free. So, you can work from home without missing a beat.

Here are 10 of those cool Zoom apps.

1. Animaker:

Animaker is an all-in-one drag-and-drop video maker that lets anyone create animations and live-action videos without any video making experience. Now, you can access all your Zoom video recordings right within Animaker! Animaker brings you a super quick way to add your Zoom video recordings directly to Animaker’s library. No more downloading and uploading!

Once you’ve imported the video recordings, they’re readily available for you to edit and enhance for various use cases.

With Animaker, you can trim, crop, rotate, flip, and adjust your video recordings. Also, with just a simple click, you can apply beautiful readymade transitions, character actions and expressions, and eye-popping text animations.

Connect your Zoom account to Animaker in as few as two clicks!

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With Animaker’s Zoom app, you can:

Search and import just the right video recordings from your Zoom account.
Seamlessly manage and organize your video recordings.
Easily switch between and import from different Zoom accounts.

2. Salesforce:

The Zoom app for Salesforce is filled with features that make meeting with teammates, clients, and leads only a few clicks away. Some of those great features include automatic logging of Zoom activity in a user’s Salesforce history, integration with Zoom Phone, meeting recording that stores in Salesforce, automatic campaign creation, and more.

Close business faster with Salesforce by seamlessly meeting with your customers and efficiently managing your sales calls.

Supercharge your productivity by leveraging Zoom Meetings and Zoom Phone from your Salesforce environment.

With a few clicks, you can seamlessly start a Zoom Meeting with your contacts and record your conversation in your Salesforce activity history. Schedule or start a Zoom Webinar, add leads and contacts as registrants, and track participation as a part of that contact’s details.

Additionally, use the Zoom Phone dialer to easily manage your inbound and outbound sales calls, automatically log call activity, and pop contacts directly from the Salesforce interface into Zoom Phone.

Automatically create Salesforce campaigns when Zoom Webinars are created.
Automate syncing Zoom Webinar attendee information and webinar participation to contacts.
Approve, deny, and cancel webinar registrations natively through Salesforce.

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3. Gong.io:

Gong’s Revenue Intelligence Platform captures your customer interactions, understands these interactions, and delivers insights.

Gong for Zoom Phone enables you to leverage Gong’s Revenue Intelligence platform with your Zoom cloud phone system. Any meeting scheduled within G Suite or Office 365 is captured by Gong to provide you better visibility and insights into how deals are progressing to enable you to improve your sales performance.

Gong helps your team collaborate, provide feedback, and work together as a lean mean selling machine. Gong uses your team stats and industry benchmarks coupled with AI and shows you what works.

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4. Hubspot:

You can integrate with HubSpot meetings to build stronger relationships with your prospects and leads.You can automatically send dial-in and conference call details to your HubSpot prospects and turn every meeting booked in your HubSpot CRM into a Zoom meeting.

When someone registers for a Zoom webinar, they’re created as a contact in HubSpot.

You can also promote your Zoom webinars with HubSpot workflows to send them automated event reminders, follow-up emails, and more.

Track Zoom webinar attendance and Recordings in HubSpot CRM.

Create lists and views in the HubSpot CRM based on Zoom webinar activities. Use contact properties to see when contacts register and attend webinars and how long they typically stay. View zoom recordings directly on the contact timeline.

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5. Domo:

Domo is the Business Cloud, empowering organizations of all sizes with BI leverage at cloud scale, in record time. With Domo, BI-critical processes that took weeks, months or more can now be done on-the-fly, in minutes, at unbelievable scale.

Domo’s Zoom App enables organizations to understand productivity, collaboration and service utilization to better enable organizations to maximize their investment in Zoom. Through the Domo platform, users can get detailed insights through intuitive dashboards and visualizations to understand in real-time their company’s current Zoom activity. Instantly see how many meetings are taking place, how long meetings are lasting and how many people are participating. Find detailed metrics to understand productivity and collaboration patterns, understand service usage and from an IT perspective support the organization’s use of Zoom with deep insights.

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6. Google Calendar or Calendly:

Zoom also has a Google Calendar app that adds the option to schedule, start, and join Zoom meetings right from Google Calendar. Zoom can be added to a Google Calendar event by choosing it as the conferencing option, so there’s no need to open the Zoom app in order to meet remotely with Zoom.

With Calendly you can automatically schedule meetings for you and include unique Zoom video conference details for each team member and thereby, shave off your team’ s time.

Connect Calendly + Zoom to automatically add video conferencing details to your calendar events and meeting reminders so everyone is prepared and on time.

Automatically generate unique Zoom conference details for every meeting you schedule.
Eliminate the need to manually enter or remember conferencing details for all your meetings.
Update meeting details in real time when rescheduling or canceling.

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7. Slack:

Zoom integrates with Slack in a similar way to Gmail and helps to streamline your workflow and communications . It lets Slack users schedule, start, record, join, and do many of the functions of the Zoom app from right inside Slack.

Start or join Zoom Meetings with one click
See real-time how long the Zoom Meeting has been running
Keep an eye on who joins or leaves your Zoom Meeting
See the duration and participant summary for your Zoom Meeting after it ends
Share Zoom Meeting recordings from any Slack channel or group direct message
Make a Zoom Phone call from any Slack channel or group direct message

The Zoom integration for Slack can be installed individually by the Slack user with a Zoom account or be deployed by the Zoom account admin to the whole organization with a few simple steps.

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8. Zapier:

Online automation tool Zapier can integrate with Zoom in countless ways. It can automate tasks like sending invitations when creating a meeting, automatic webinar registration upon customer payment, and more. Zapier said it has over 1,500 app integrations that can connect to Zoom through its platform, so it could be worth a try if you need to find ways to save time.

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9. Otter.ai:

Otter.ai integrates with Zoom to provide interactive transcripts in real time and post meetings. Participants can view, highlight, comment, and add photos to create shared meeting notes collaboratively.

At a time when most meetings, events, and classes have gone virtual, remote workers and students struggle to listen and pay attention while taking notes. Businesses and schools need help capturing information accurately and making it accessible instantly.

This integration includes two capabilities:

Live Notes: All meeting participants can open the Otter.ai Live Transcript in the LIVE menu at the top of the Zoom window. Log into Otter.ai to highlight, comment, and add photos to the live meeting notes. Available to Otter for Teams subscribers only.
Post-Meeting Transcription: Otter.ai will automatically download Zoom cloud recordings for transcription. Available to all Otter.ai users.

To set up, please follow the instructions at https://blog.otter.ai/zoom

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10. Eventbrite:

Sell registrations to your Meetings and Webinars and automatically sync participants with the Eventbrite integration

Monetize your Meetings and Webinars by selling tickets and accepting donations with the Eventbrite app. Easily create an Eventbrite event that pulls in details from your Zoom Meeting/Webinar and syncs registrant information from Eventbrite back into Zoom.

Learn more about your registrants
Sync attendee information with your Zoom account
Customize your event
Use the Online Events Page to create a custom experience for your attendees
Customize when attendees can access links and assets
Monetize your content
Create multiple ticket types and offer different price points for a single event
Collect donations
Simplify the attendee experience
Easily set a limit for the number of registrants allowed
Attendees automatically receive unique links to access your Zoom Meeting/Webinar
Automated emails are sent to attendees 2 days, 2 hours, and 10 minutes before your event
Communicate with registrants before and after your events

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Thus, demonstrating just how imperative these apps are to today’s business workflows. Incredibly, these cool apps are a great boon to the modern workforce.

Comment to let us know how you leveraged one or more of these apps in your day-to-day work life.

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How to Add a Voiceover on Google Slides: A Quick Guide

Adding a voiceover to Google Slides presentations is straightforward if you’ve already created a voiceover, and you’re looking to add the audio file to a slide in your presentation.

If you haven’t created a voiceover, and you’re looking to use Google Slides to record a voiceover, well, Google Slides doesn’t have built-in functionality to record voiceovers.

You can only insert audio files into your presentations on Google Slides. You’ll have to create the voiceover separately and then add it to your presentation on Google Slides.

We’ll first show you how to record or generate a voiceover using free tools online and then give you step-by-step instructions on how to add a voiceover in Google Slides.

Here’s what we’ll cover in this article, feel free to jump to a section that’s relevant to you:

How to quickly create voiceovers for your Google Slides presentations for free

How to add a voiceover to Google Slides presentations

How to Create Voiceovers for Your Google Slides Presentations for Free

You can either record your own voiceover using a voice recording tool or generate a voiceover using text-to-speech software.

Let’s see how you can record a voiceover. We’ll be using Rev’s free online voice recording tool to record your voiceover.

You can also use offline voice recording software such as Apple’s GarageBand or Audacity.

Record a Voiceover for Your Google Slides Presentations in 3 Simple Steps using a Free Voice Recorder App

Open the tool and click on the Record button to start recording your voiceover.
You can now pause the recording by clicking on the Pause button.
You can then resume recording by clicking on the Resume button or preview what you’ve recorded by clicking on the Preview button.

Clicking on the preview button will take you to a window where you can preview, transcribe, or download the recording. Click on the download icon right next to the transcribe button to download the recording.

If you’d rather generate a voiceover using text-to-speech software, you can use Animaker’s free text-to-speech tool.

Animaker uses the NTTS (Neural Text To Speech) model to generate ultra-realistic, crystal-clear audio narrations!

Generate a Human-like Natural-sounding Voice with Text in 3 Simple Steps using Animaker

Step 1: First, sign up or sign in to Animaker. Then from the Create project section in your dashboard, click on the yellow, Voiceover/TTS button.

Step 2: Now start entering the text in the window that appears next.

You can then pick a Gender, Language, or Voice for your voiceover.

Click on the round button in the top left corner of the window to adjust your voiceover’s Speed, Pitch, and Volume.

If you made changes to the speed, pitch, or volume, you can undo these changes by clicking on the Reset button.

Also, you can add a breath or break effect between each word and adjust how long it should last. Simply click on the dot between any two words to add a Breath or Break between them.

You can also let AI take care of making your voiceover sound good by using the auto-enhance functionality. This feature automatically adds the breath effect, speed, pitch, volume, etc., based on the text you’ve entered. Tick the Auto enhance checkbox to auto-enhance your voiceovers.

Step 3: Click the Preview button to play and preview the voiceover.

And then click on the Download button in the top right corner of the window to instantly download your voiceover to your local computer in MP3 format.

One thing to keep in mind is that in order for you to be able to add an audio file to your Google Slides presentations, it must be in MP3 or WAV audio format.

How to Add a Voiceover to Google Slides Presentations

Now that you have the voiceover file with you, you can go ahead and add it to your Google Slides presentations. Here are the steps to add a voiceover on Google Slides:

Step 1: Upload the Audio File to Google Drive

To upload an audio file, you can open google drive on your browser and simply drag and drop the audio file onto the browser window.

You can also upload the audio file by clicking on the New button in the top right corner of the window and selecting the File upload option from the dropdown menu.

Step 2: Customize the Audio File’s Accessibility Settings

You can now change the accessibility settings of your audio file depending on who you want to hear it.

Click on the audio file to select it and then click on the Get link button in the top right corner of the window.

Then in the popup window that appears next, click on the Restricted dropdown button and select Anyone with the link to set the access level to “Viewer”. Once you’re done, click the Done button in the bottom right corner of the popup window.

Step 3: Embed or Insert the Audio File

Open Google Slides on your browser, open the presentation, and navigate to the slide to which you want to add this voiceover. Then click on the Insert menu from the menu bar and select the Audio option from the dropdown menu.

In the Insert audio window that opens next, click on the relevant audio file and hit the Select button in the bottom left corner of the window to embed that audio file into the slide.

You’ll now notice that an audio icon appears on your slide.

If you’d like to create and add voiceovers to videos, check out our free video voiceover tool.

Got any questions about adding a voiceover to a presentation on Google Slides? Any interesting tips or tools to create and add voiceovers to your presentations on Google Slides that we haven’t covered? Please let us know about them in the comment section below.

How to Add a Voiceover in iMovie on iPhone and Mac

Looking to record and add a voiceover in iMovie on iPhone or Mac?

In this article, we show you how to add a voiceover to your video using iMovie on both iOS and Mac, step-by-step, with pictures.

Here’s what we’ll cover in this article, jump to the section that’s relevant to you:

How to add a voiceover to a video in iMovie on iPhone and iPad

How to add a voiceover to your video in iMovie on Mac

Adding a Voiceover to a Video using the Best iMovie Alternative

How to Add a Voiceover to a Video in iMovie app on iPhone and iPad

You can use the iMovie app on your iPhone or iPad to add voiceovers to your videos. If you don’t have the iMovie app installed on your iPhone or iPad, you can download and install iMovie for iOS.

Once you’ve installed the iMovie app, follow the steps below to add voiceover to imovie on iPhone and iPad:

First, create a new project. Open the iMovie app and tap the Create Project button.
Select Movie from the popup window.
Then tap Create Movie at the bottom of the app screen.
Now tap on the area that says Tap + to add videos, photos, or audio to import your videos.
Now tap Video under the VIDEOS & PHOTOS category.
Then tap All, tap on the video you’d like to import, and tap the blue round button with the tick mark on it.
Once you’re done adding the video clip, tap Create Movie at the bottom of the app screen.
Now that you’ve imported the video(s), you can now start recording the voiceover. Before you start recording your voiceover, choose where you want your voiceover to start. From the timeline, tap and drag the video(s) to your left to place the playhead where you want your voiceover to start.
Then tap the plus icon and select Voiceover from the menu.
Tap Record in the top right corner of the Ready to Record popup window. Before the app starts recording, you’ll be given a 3-second countdown.
Once you’re done recording the voiceover, tap Stop from the same location as the Record button.
Once you stop recording the voiceover, you’ll be given the options to Cancel, Retake, Review, or Accept your recording. Tap Accept if you’re happy with how it’s come out. Or tap Retake to have another go at it.
Once you’re done recording and adding a voiceover to your video, tap the Done text button in the top left corner of the app window.

How to Add a Voiceover to Your Video in iMovie on Mac

iMovie is a free tool that comes preinstalled on Mac OS.

Here are the steps to adding a voiceover to iMovie on Mac:

Open iMovie and click on the Create New button.
Now select Movie from the dropdown menu.
Click on the Import Media button and select the video that you want to import.
Once you’ve imported the video, drag and drop it onto the timeline.
Now let’s record and add a voiceover to this video. First, from the timeline, place the playhead where you want to add the voiceover.
Determine where you want to place the playhead in the timeline, hover in that position to reveal a white line, and then simply click there. This will move the playhead to that location.
To record the voiceover, either click on the microphone icon in the bottom left corner of the viewer window or click on the Window menu from the menu bar and select Record Voiceover from the drop-down menu.
Click the slider-bars icon next to the recording button to adjust the voiceover settings such as the input source (available microphones) and volume.
Click the red, round record button to start recording the voiceover.

You’ll see a 3-second countdown just like on iOS.
To stop recording the voiceover, click on the same record button again. You can also stop recording the voiceover by hitting the space key.
You’ll now see that a new audio clip has been added to the timeline.
Finally, click Done in the bottom right corner of the viewer window to exit the voiceover mode.

Adding a Voiceover to a Video using the Best iMovie Alternative

If you’re looking for an online tool to add a voiceover to a video, you can use Animaker.

For those who are unaware of Animaker, it is an all-in-one DIY video-making app designed to help non-designers make professional-quality videos from the comfort of their browser.

It just takes 3 simple steps to add a voiceover to your video and download it using our super-simple, free tool.

It works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc., and if you use one of these browsers, you can easily add audio files to your videos on your Mac computer.

Here’s how to add a voiceover to a video using Animaker:

Add Voiceovers to Videos in 3 Simple Steps using Animaker

Step 1: Sign up / Log in and Pick the Dimensions

Sign in to your account or create a free account. Then choose the dimensions for your output video depending on which social media platform you’d be posting it on.

You could want your video to be Horizontal, Square, or Vertical in size. Pick one of the premade dimensions from the Create Project section in your dashboard.

You can also pick your own custom height and width for your video. Simply click on the Custom Size Video button from the same section above. Then enter your desired width and height and hit Create Video.

Step 2: Upload Your Video and Add a Voiceover to It

Now upload your video(s). You can upload videos up to 20 GB in size. Navigate to the Upload tab in the menu bar and click on the Upload button at the bottom of the tab window.

Once the video has been uploaded, click on the video to set it onto the canvas.

There are two ways you can create and add a voiceover in Animaker. You can either record your own voice or generate natural-sounding audio narrations using text.

We’ll show you how to create a voiceover using both the former and latter methods.

To record your own voiceover, first, click on the video you just set onto the canvas or click on the Video Timeline button right below the canvas. Then click on the microphone icon in the bottom left corner of the app window and select Record Voiceover option from the dropdown menu.

You’ll now see a simple popup window with a button to record your voice. Click on the blue, round button with a microphone icon on it to start recording your voice. Then click on the red button to stop recording.

You’ll then be shown options to Preview, Re-record, and enter a name for your voiceover. Click on the Preview button to listen and check if it’s turned out the way you wanted it to. Click on the Re-record button to record the voiceover again and have another shot at it.

If you’re satisfied or happy with the voiceover, click on the Apply button to add the voiceover to your video or scene. You’ll now see that the voiceover appears right underneath the video layer in the timeline. We’ll show you how to edit the voiceover later in the article.

To generate voiceover using text, click on the same microphone icon from the same location but select Text to Speech from the dropdown menu this time around.

Start entering the text in the popup window that appears next. You can enter a name for your voiceover and pick a Gender, Language, or Voice.

Click on the round button in the top left corner of the popup window to adjust the Speed, Pitch, and Volume of your voiceover.

If you’d like to undo all the changes you made, click on the Reset button.

Between each word that’s pronounced, you can add a Breath or Break and determine how long it should last. Simply click on the dot between any two words to add a breath or break between them.

You can also, however, choose not to make any changes yourself and let AI take care of it by using the Auto enhance feature. The auto-enhance feature automatically adds the breath effect, speed, pitch, etc. Tick the Auto enhance checkbox to auto-enhance your voiceovers.

Click the Play button to play and preview the voiceover. And then click on the Sync button to add it to the scene or video.

You can also upload your own voiceover (or audio) file to your video. You can upload it just like how you’d upload any other file to Animaker.

Or you can click on the microphone icon in the bottom left corner of the app window and select the Upload Voiceover option from the dropdown menu.

To edit the voiceover, simply click on it from the timeline. This will reveal a tooltip with options to play the voiceover, adjust its volume, duplicate and delete it.

Step 3: Preview and Download the Video

You can now preview your video by clicking on the play button beside the Share button.

To download the video as an MP4 file, click on the Publish button and select Download Video from the dropdown menu.

You can also share the video directly to various social media platforms from right within the app.

Apart from letting you easily add voiceovers to your videos, Animaker offers all the video editing tools you’d need to edit and fine-tune your video footage.

You might want to explore some related video editing tools that our video editor offers:

And the list goes on… feel free to check out all our video editing software tools and learn why they’re the go-to tools for marketers, content creators, and people with no video editing experience.

Got any questions about adding a voiceover to a video in iMovie or on your Mac computer? Any interesting tips or tools to add voiceovers to your videos on your iPhone or Mac computer that we haven’t covered? Please let us know about them in the comment section below.

How to Add Audio to a Video: 6 Easy Ways in 2021

Looking to add audio to a video on your mobile phone or computer?

Whether you want to add audio in a video on iOS, Android, Mac, or Windows, we’ve got you covered.

In this article, we’ll show you how to add an audio file to a video on iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows, step-by-step, with pictures.

Here’s everything we’ll cover, please feel free to jump around:

How to add audio to a video on iPhone and Android using InShot

How to add audio to a video in VLC on Windows and Mac

How to add audio to a video in Windows Movie Maker

How to add audio to a video in iMovie on Mac

How to add audio to a video in Adobe Premiere Pro

How to add audio to a video online using Animaker

How to Add Audio to a Video on iPhone and Android using InShot

If you’re on Android or iOS, you can use InShot to add an audio file or music track to a video. The app is available on both iOS and Android. It’s ideal for adding music to a video and posting it on social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok, or Twitter.

Here’s how to add audio or music to a video on iPhone or Android using InShot:

Open InShot and tap Video to import the video.
Once the video has been imported, head to the Music tab.
You’ll now see that there are three buttons: Tracks, Effects, and Record. If you want to add a background music track to your video, tap Tracks.

Now under the Featured tab, you’ll see several groups of tracks. Tap one of the groups, then tap a track.

This will start playing the audio track and reveal a red Download button.

If you like the track and would want to use it in your video, tap the download button. Once the video is downloaded, you’ll see a Use button in its place. Tap the Use button to use it in your video.
InShot allows you to extract and use the audio or music from a video that you have on your phone. To extract audio from a video, use the button that says Extract audio from video under the same Featured tab.
If you have an audio track on your phone and would like to import and add it to your video, switch to the My Music tab beside the Featured tab.
To add sound effects, switch to the Effects tab next to the My Music tab.

If you’d like to add the sound of applause to your video, tap the Applause category, tap an effect from the list, and tap Use to add that effect to your video.
You can also record your voice using InShot. Tap the Record button to start recording the audio.
Once you’re done adding the audio track(s) to your video, tap the tick icon.
Finally, tap the Save button in the top right corner of the screen to save the video on your phone.

How to Add Audio to a Video in VLC on Windows and Mac

VLC media player is a free tool available on both Windows and Mac. If you don’t have it installed, you can download VLC for Windows or VLC for Mac.

Once you’ve installed VLC on your computer, follow the steps below to add audio to a video file on Windows 10 or Mac using VLC media player:

First, open VLC. Then go to Media > Open Multiple Files.
In the Open Media window, click Add to import the video.
Once you’ve imported the video, you can now go ahead and add the audio file to it. In the Open Media window, tick the Show more options checkbox.
Now tick the Play another media synchronously checkbox.
Then click on the Browse button.
In the Open Media window that appears next, click on the Add button and then the Select button in the bottom right corner of the same window to add the audio file.
Then click on the Convert/ Save dropdown button in the bottom right corner and select Convert from the dropdown menu.
Now pick a location to save your video. In the Convert window, click on the Browse button under the Destination section.
Finally, click Start to save the video.

How to Add Music to a Video in Windows Movie Maker on Windows 7/8/10

Windows Movie Maker comes with the Windows Essentials suite and Microsoft has ended the support for this suite. You can, however, download the official installer using this download link. We retrieved that link using a web archiving service.

Here are the steps to install and add audio to a video using Windows Movie Maker:

First, install Windows Movie Maker on your Windows computer. Double-click the installer file and pick Choose the programs you want to install option from the window that appears next.
You wouldn’t need most of the tools that come with this suite. If you don’t want to install a tool, untick the checkbox beside that tool. But make sure to leave the Photo Gallery and Movie Maker checkbox ticked. Click on the Install button to begin the installation process.
Once Movie Maker is installed, open it and import the videos or photos to it.

Simply drag and drop the video or audio files onto the software window. Or you can import the videos (or photos) by heading to the Home tab and clicking on the Add Photos and Videos button.
Now let’s add the music or audio to the video. Head to the Home tab and click on the Add music button to import and add the audio file(s) to your video clips. The add music button is right beside the Add Photos and Videos button in the Add section.

Windows Movie Maker supports WMA, MP3, WAV, M4A, AIFF, and AIF audio formats.
Finally, save the video. To save the video, go to the File tab, select Save movie, and then select Recommended for this project.

How to Add Audio to a Video on iMovie

iMovie is a free tool that comes preinstalled on Mac OS. Here’s how to add an audio file to a video on Mac using the iMovie desktop software:

Open iMovie and click on the Create New button.
Select Movie from the resulting dropdown menu.
Click on the Import Media button to import the video(s).
Once you’ve imported the video, drag and drop it onto the timeline.
Now let’s import the audio track that we want to add to the video. To import an audio file or a video, click on the File menu in the main menu bar and select Import media… from the dropdown menu.
Once you’ve imported the audio file, drag and drop it onto the timeline panel. Make sure to not drop it over a video clip. Release the mouse button when you see the green plus button. This will add the audio to the video.

How to Add Audio or Music to a Video in Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a paid, professional video editing software designed to be used by professionals. If you already have it installed on your computer, you can use it to add music or audio to a video.

Here are the steps to add an audio or music file to a video in Premiere Pro:

Go to File > New to create a new video project.
Go to File > Import to import the video(s).
Now drag and drop the imported video from the Project panel onto the timeline.
Now import the audio file that you want to add to the video. Go to File > Import to import the audio file.
The imported audio file will now appear in the Project panel. Simply drag and drop it onto the timeline to add it to the video file. You can trim an audio track and adjust its volume just like you can with a video clip.

How to Add and Edit Audio in a Video Online using Animaker

If you’re looking for an online tool to add audio to video, you can use Animaker.

For those who are unaware of Animaker, it is an all-in-one DIY video-making app designed to help non-designers make professional-quality videos from the comfort of their browser.

It just takes 3 simple steps to add audio or music to a video and download it using our super-simple, free tool.

It works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc., and if you use one of these browsers, you can easily add audio files to your videos on your Windows or Mac computer.

Moreover, you can upload and combine your audio files and videos in multiple formats such as MP4, MPG, WebM, MOV, and more formats.

Here’s how to add an audio file to a video using Animaker:

Add Audio (or Music) to Your Videos in 3 Simple Steps using Animaker

Step 1: Sign up / Sign in and Pick the Dimensions

First, sign in to your account or create a free account. Now pick the dimensions for your output video depending on the social media platform you’d be posting it on.

Want your video to be Horizontal, Square, or Vertical in size? Pick one of the premade dimensions from the Create a video section in your dashboard.

If you want to pick your own height and width for your video, simply click on the Custom Size Video button from the same section above. Then enter your desired width and height and hit Create Video.

Step 2: Upload the Video and Add Audio to It

Now upload the video and audio file(s). You can upload videos up to 20 GB in size. Head to the Upload tab in the main menu bar and click on the Upload button at the bottom of the tab window.

Once the video has been uploaded, click on the video to set it onto the canvas.

Now click on the music or audio file to add it to your video project. Once you add the audio file to your video, it will appear right underneath the video layer in the timeline.

To edit your audio file, simply click on the audio file from the timeline. This will reveal a tooltip with options to preview or play the audio track, adjust its volume, duplicate it, etc.

To adjust when the audio should start or stop playing, simply click and drag the audio file to the left or right and/or drag one of the handles (black in color) on either side.

You can also add an audio track from our library. Animaker’s music library features a wide variety of royalty-free background music tracks. Head to the Music tab to access our music library.

Moreover, Animaker also lets you add a voiceover to your video. You can record your voice or generate natural-sounding, crystal clear audio narrations simply using text.

Click on the microphone icon in the bottom left corner of the app window to record (or generate) voice for your video.

Step 3: Preview and Download the Video

You can preview the video by clicking on the play button beside the Publish button.

To download the video, click on the Publish button and select Download video from the dropdown menu.

You can also share the video directly to various social media platforms from right within the app.

Apart from letting you easily add music to your videos, Animaker offers all the video editing tools you’d need to edit and fine-tune your video footage.

You can use Animaker’s video editor to:

Got any questions about adding audio to a video on Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS? Any interesting tips or tools to add background music to your videos on your phone or computer that we haven’t covered? Please let us know about them in the comment section below.

How to Brighten a Video: 6 Easy Ways in 2021

Looking to brighten a video on your smartphone or computer?

Whether you want to edit the brightness of a video on iOS, Android, Mac, or Windows, we’ve got you covered.

In this article, we’ll show you how to make a video brighter on iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows with clear step-by-step instructions and pictures.

Here’s everything we’ll cover, please feel free to jump around:

How to brighten a video on iPhone and Android

How to brighten up a video in iMovie on Mac

How to add brightness to a video in VLC

How to lighten a dark video in Windows 7/8/10 using Windows Movie Maker

How to lighten up a video in Adobe Premiere Pro

A simple way to brighten a video on Mac and Windows

How to Brighten a Video on iPhone and Android

If you’re on Android or iOS, you can use Inshot to brighten a video. Inshot is available on both iOS and Android. It’s the ideal tool if you want to brighten the video and post it on social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok, or Twitter.

Here’s how to brighten a dark video on iPhone or Android using Inshot:

Open Inshot and tap Video to import the video.
Once the video has been imported, navigate to the Filter tab.
Now tap on the Adjust button.
You can now adjust the brightness of your video from the Lightness tab.
Tap and drag the handle to the right or left to increase or decrease the brightness of your video.
Now save the changes you made by clicking on the tick icon.
Finally, tap the SAVE button in the top right corner of the app screen to save the video.

How to Brighten up a Video in iMovie on Mac

iMovie is a free tool that comes preinstalled on Mac OS. Follow the below steps to brighten a video on Mac using the iMovie desktop software:

Open iMovie and click on the Create New button.
Pick Movie from the resulting dropdown menu.
Click on the Import Media button to import the video you want to brighten.
Once the video has been imported, click on it to select the video—the video will be highlighted in yellow to indicate that it has been selected.
Click on the Color correction button in the toolbar right above the video player panel.
Now click and drag the handle at the center to your right or left to increase or decrease the brightness of your video.

If you’d like to adjust the brightness all over again and undo the changes you’ve made so far, click on the Reset button in the top right corner of the app window.

Also, iMovie allows you to adjust the contrast, saturation, temperature, etc., of your video.

How to Add Brightness to a Video in VLC

VLC media player is a free tool available on both Windows and Mac. If you don’t have it installed, you can download VLC for Windows or VLC for Mac.

Once you’ve installed VLC on your computer, follow the steps below to brighten a video in Windows 10 or Mac using VLC media player:

Open VLC and open the file you want to brighten by going to Media > Open File.
Once you’ve opened the video, go to Tools > Effects and Filters.
In the Adjustments and Effects window, go to the Video Effects tab. Now under the Essential tab, you’d see the controls to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.
Click on the Image adjust checkbox to enable these controls.
Drag the slider handle to the left or right to adjust the brightness of your video. Dragging the handle to the right lightens the video while dragging the handle to the left darkens the video.

You can also use VLC to perform color correction. It allows you to easily adjust the saturation, hue, and contrast of your video.
Once you’re done making the adjustments to your video, go to Media > Convert / Save.
Now click on the Add button to import the video you had brightened earlier.
Once you’ve selected and imported the video, click on the Convert / Save dropdown button in the bottom right corner of the window and select Convert from the resulting dropdown menu.
In the Convert window, click on the Browse button to select a location for the brightened video on your computer.
Finally, click Start to save the brightened video.

How to Lighten a Dark Video in Windows 7/8/10 using Windows Movie Maker

Microsoft has ended the support for the Windows Essentials suite. You can, however, download the official installer using this download link. We retrieved that link using a web archiving service.

Here are the steps to install and brighten a video using the Windows Movie Maker:

First, install Windows Movie Maker on your computer. Double-click the installer and pick Choose the programs you want to install option from the first window that appears.
Leave the photo gallery and movie maker checkbox ticked. Untick the rest of the checkboxes as you wouldn’t need the other tools that come with this suite and click on the Install button.
Once you’ve installed Windows Movie Maker, open it and import the video you want to brighten.

You can simply drag and drop the video onto the software window. Or you can import the video by going to the Home tab and clicking on the Add Photos and Videos button.
Now go to the Visual Effects tab and click on the button that says Brightness.
Then click and drag the handle to adjust the brightness of your video. Drag the slider handle to the right to lighten the video and to the left to darken the video.
Finally, save the video you just brightened. To save the video, go to the File tab, select Save movie, and then select Recommended for this project.

How to Lighten up a Video in Premiere Pro

Adobe Premiere Pro is a paid, professional video editing software designed to be used by professionals. If you already have it installed on your computer, you can use it to brighten a video.

Here are the steps to make a video brighter in Premiere Pro:

1. Create a New Project

Go to File > New to create a new project.

2. Import the Video

Go to File > Import to import the video you want to brighten.

3. Add the Video to the Timeline

Drag and drop the imported video from the Project panel onto the timeline.

4. Select the Video from the Timeline Panel

From the timeline, click on the video to select it.

5. Add the Brightness Effect

Navigate to the Effects tab in the Project panel and then go to Video Effects > Color Correction > Brightness & Contrast. Now double-click on the Brightness & Contrast option to add the brightness effect to the video.

6. Adjust the Brightness

Once you’ve added the effect to the video, you can now see that the controls to adjust this effect appears in the Effect Controls panel.

You can see that there’s a number (in blue color) beside Brightness. You can click on the number and drag to your right or left to increase or decrease the number.

Increasing the number increases the brightness or adds more light to the video and decreasing the number decreases the brightness or darkens the video.

You can also adjust the contrast the same way you adjusted the brightness of the video.

A Simple Way to Brighten a Video on Your Mac or Windows Computer

If you’re looking to brighten your video online, you can use Animaker’s Adjust Video Tool.

For those who are unaware of Animaker, it is an all-in-one DIY video-making app designed to help non-designers make professional-quality videos from the comfort of their browser.

It’s a simple tool that lets you easily darken or brighten your videos for free! All it takes is 3 simple steps to brighten and download your videos using our super-simple, free video brightening software.

It works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc., and if you use one of these browsers, you can easily brighten your videos on your Windows or Mac computer.

Moreover, you can upload and brighten your videos in multiple formats such as MP4, MPG, WebM, MOV, and more formats.

Follow the steps below to brighten a video using Animaker:

Step 1: Sign Up / Login and Pick the Dimensions

First, sign in to your account or create a free one. Then pick the dimensions for your video depending on the social media platform you want to post it on.

Want it to be Horizontal or Square or Vertical in size? Pick one of the premade dimensions from the Create a video section in your dashboard.

You can also pick custom dimensions for your video by clicking on the Custom Size Video button from the same section above. Simply enter your desired width and height and hit Create Video.

Step 2: Upload the Video and Brighten It

Upload the video you wish to brighten. Animaker allows you to upload videos up to 20 GB in size. Navigate to the Upload tab in the main navigation bar and click on the Upload button at the bottom of the tab window.

Once the video has been uploaded, click on the video to set it onto the canvas.

Now click on the Filters icon and click on the Adjust button at the bottom of the Effects panel. You’ll now see the controls to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, tint, etc. You can also blur the video.

To brighten your video, click and drag the handle of the Brightness slider to the right.

If you want to darken the video, simply click and drag the handle to the left.

Step 3: Download the Video

You can download the video to your local computer by clicking the Publish button and selecting Download video option from the dropdown menu. You can also share the video directly to various social media platforms from within the app.

Apart from letting you easily brighten or darken your videos, Animaker offers all the video editing tools you’d need to edit and fine-tune your video footage.

You can use Animaker’s video editor to:

Got any questions about adjusting the brightness of a video on Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS? Any interesting tips or tools to adjust brightness or correct the color of your videos on your phone or computer that we haven’t covered? Please let us know about them in the comment section below.

How to Combine Videos in iMovie (Step by Step)

Looking to merge or combine videos in iMovie on your iPhone or Mac computer?

In this article, we’ll show you how to merge or combine two or more videos into one video using iMovie on both iPhone and Mac.

Also, as a bonus, we’ll show you an easier way to merge/combine video clips on your Mac computer.

Here’s everything we’ll cover, feel free to jump around:

How to Merge Videos in iPhone using iMovie

How to Combine Videos on Mac using iMovie

An Easy Way to Combine Videos on Mac

How to Combine Videos on iPhone using the iMovie App

You can use the iMovie app on your iPhone or iPad to merge videos together. If you don’t have the iMovie app installed on your iPhone or iPad, you can download and install iMovie for iOS.

Once you’ve installed the iMovie app, follow the steps below to combine 2 or 3 videos into one using it:

Open iMovie and tap the Create Project button.
Now select Movie from the New Project popup window.
Then tap Create Movie at the bottom of the app screen.
Now tap on the area that says Tap + to add videos, photos, or audio to import your videos.
Now tap Video under the VIDEOS & PHOTOS category.
Then tap All, tap on the video you’d like to import, and tap the blue round button with the tick mark on it.
Now tap any other video you want to merge or combine and tap the blue round button with the tick mark on it.
Once you’re done adding the video clips, tap Create Movie at the bottom of the app screen.
Optionally, you can also add transitions between your video clips. You can pick a transition style of your choice—plenty of beautiful transitions such as Dissolve, Slide, Wipe, Fade, etc.
Once you’re done, tap Done in the top left corner of the app screen.

How to Combine Videos in iMovie on Mac

If you’re on Mac, you can use the iMovie software to merge your videos. Here are the steps to merge videos using the iMovie desktop software on Mac:

Open iMovie and click on the Create New button.
Now select Movie from the dropdown menu.
Then click on the Import media button to import a video.
To import more videos, click on the File menu in the menu bar and select Import media… from the resulting dropdown menu.
Once you’ve imported all your videos that you’d like to merge into one video file, drag and drop them onto the timeline. Doing so would merge all your video clips into one single video. You can click and drag the videos to rearrange them so they appear in your desired order.

An Easy Way to Combine or Merge Videos on Mac

If you’re on Mac, you can use Animaker’s video merger to easily merge several videos together for free! All it takes is 3 simple steps to merge all your videos using our super-simple video merging tool.

For those who are unaware of Animaker, it is an all-in-one DIY video-making app designed to help non-designers make professional-quality videos from the comfort of their browser.

Our video merging software works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc., and if you use one of these browsers, you can easily merge or combine your videos on your Mac computer.

If you’re looking to easily merge your videos for Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook, then Animaker’s video merger is the best tool for the job. Also, you can merge videos in MP4, MPG, WebM, MOV, and more formats.

Merge Your Videos in 3 Simple Steps using Animaker

Sign up/Log in and Pick the Dimensions

Log into your account or create a free one. Now pick the dimensions for your video. Do you want it to be horizontal or vertical or square? You can pick one of the premade dimensions from the Create a video section in your dashboard.

Or you can enter custom dimensions for your video by picking the Custom Size Video option from the same section above. Enter the width and height in pixels and hit Create Video.

Upload Your Videos and Merge Them Together

Animaker lets you upload videos up to 20 GB in size. To upload videos, go to the Upload tab in the main menu bar and click on the Upload button at the bottom of the tab window.

Alternatively, you can simply drag and drop your videos onto the area shown below.

In the Scenes section, you can see that a scene has already been added to the project.

You can now set your first video onto that existing scene. Simply click on a video in the Uploads section to set it onto a scene.

Now add a new scene for each video. To add a new scene, click on the plus button at the bottom of the scene.

Now click another uploaded video you’d like to add to this new scene. Repeat the same process for other videos you’d like to add and merge together.

Optionally, you can fine-tune the video footage you just added. You can trim, resize, crop, rotate, flip, mute, and adjust the brightness and contrast of your video files.

You can also add music, transitions, images, emojis, shapes, stickers, GIFs, etc.

Preview and Download the Video

Once you’re done adding all your video files and fine-tuning them, you can preview the video by clicking on the play icon beside the Publish button. You can download the video to your local computer by clicking on the Publish button and then selecting Download Video from the resulting dropdown menu. Or you can share it directly to a social media platform from within the app.

Using Animaker’s online video editor, you can:

And the list goes on… feel free to check out these video editing tools and learn why it’s a widely preferred tool for video editing.

Got any questions about merging or combining your videos in iMovie or on your Mac computer? Any interesting tips or tools to merge videos on Mac that we seem to have left out? Please let us know about them in the comment section below.

How to Merge Videos in Windows 10: 5 Easy Ways

Looking to merge videos in Windows 10?

In this article, we show you the 5 best free ways to merge or combine videos on windows 10 with clear step-by-step instructions and pictures.

Here’s everything we’ll cover, feel free to jump around:

How to merge videos in Windows 10 using the built-in Photos app

How to merge a video in Windows Movie Maker

How to merge a video in VLC media player

How to merge videos in Adobe Premiere Pro

An Easy Way to Merge Videos in Windows 10

How to Merge Videos in Windows 10 using the Free, Built-in Photos App

Photos is an app that comes preinstalled on your Windows 10 OS. It’s used to open your photos and images by default on Windows 10. You can use Photos to easily combine or merge videos together on your Windows PC. Here are the steps to merge multiple video files in Windows 10 using the Photos app:

First, locate the Photos app on your computer and open it. You can find it in your Start menu.
Now create a new project. You can either create a video project by clicking on the big blue box that says New video project or by clicking on the New video button and selecting New video project from the dropdown menu. You can find the New video button in the top right corner of the app window.
Then import the videos you want to merge together. To do that, use the blue + Add button right underneath the Project library text.
Once you’ve imported all the videos you want to combine, select them and click on the Place in the storyboard button in the top right corner of the app window. This will add all the selected videos to the project’s storyboard.
Optionally, you can now edit and fine-tune the videos. You can split or trim your videos. Or you can rotate and flip them. Photos provides you with all the basic video editing tools to manipulate your video footage.
If you don’t want to make any changes to the videos, you can go ahead and click on the Finish video button in the top right corner of the app window to export or share the video.

Now let’s see how we can merge or combine videos on Windows 10 using a free tool that’s also from the creators of Windows.

How to Combine Videos on Windows 10 using Windows Movie Maker

Even though Microsoft ended the support for the Windows Essentials Suite in 2010—Windows Movie Maker is a part of this suite—you can still download and install Windows Movie Maker with this official installer we retrieved using a web archiving service.

First, install Windows Movie Maker on your computer. Double-click the installer file and pick the Choose the programs you want to install option.
Leave the Photo gallery and movie maker checkbox ticked. Untick the rest of the checkboxes as you probably won’t need the other tools that come with this suite. Then click on the Install button.
Now import the videos you want to combine. You can drag and drop the videos onto the app window. Or you can import the videos by going to the Home tab and clicking on the Add photos and videos button.
Optionally, you can arrange the videos in the order in which you want them to appear. Simply click and drag the videos to rearrange them.
Finally, save the video. Go to the File tab, select Save movie, and select Recommended for this project from the dropdown menu.

How to Merge Videos in Windows 10 using VLC Media Player

Yes, you can merge your videos together using VLC media player. If you already have VLC installed and would like to use it to merge your videos, you can check out our article on how to combine videos in VLC.

How to Merge a Video in Windows 10 using Adobe Premiere Pro

If you already have Adobe Premiere Pro installed on your Windows 10 PC, you can use it to merge your videos together into a single video. It’s a paid tool specifically built for professionals. Here’s our article on how to combine videos in Premiere Pro.

An Easy Way to Combine or Merge Videos in Windows 10

If you’re a Windows user, you can use Animaker’s video merger to easily merge multiple videos together for free! All it takes is 3 simple steps to merge your videos using our super-simple video merging tool.

For those who are unaware of Animaker, it is an all-in-one DIY video-making app designed to help non-designers make professional-quality videos from the comfort of their browser.

Our video merging software works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc., and if you use one of these browsers, you can easily merge or combine your videos on your Windows computer.

If you’re looking to quickly merge your videos for Instagram, YouTube, or Facebook, then Animaker’s video merger is the best tool for the job. Also, you can merge videos in MP4, MPG, WebM, MOV, and more formats.

Merge Your Videos in 3 Simple Steps using Animaker

Sign up/Log in and Pick the Dimensions

Log into your account or create a free one. Now pick the dimensions for your output video file. Do you want it to be horizontal or vertical or square? You can pick one of the premade dimensions from the Create a video section in your dashboard.

Or you can enter custom dimensions for your video by picking the Custom Size Video option from the same section above. Enter the width and height in pixels and hit Create Video.

Upload Your Videos and Merge Them Together

You can upload videos up to 20 GB in size. To upload your videos, go to the Upload tab in the main menu bar and click on the Upload button at the bottom of the tab window.

Alternatively, you can simply drag and drop your videos onto the area shown below.

In the Scenes section, you can see that a scene has already been added to the project.

You can now set your first video onto that existing scene. Simply click on a video in the Uploads section to set it onto a scene.

Now add a new scene for each video. To add a new scene, click on the plus button at the bottom of the scene.

Now click another uploaded video you’d like to add to this new scene. Repeat the same process for other videos you’d like to add and merge together.

Optionally, you can fine-tune the video footage you just added. You can trim, resize, crop, rotate, flip, mute, and adjust the brightness and contrast of your video files.

You can also add music, transitions, images, emojis, shapes, stickers, GIFs, etc.

Preview and Download the Video

Using Animaker’s online video editor, you can:

And the list goes on… feel free to check out these video editing tools and learn why it’s the go-to video editor for marketers and content creators.

Got any questions about merging or combining your videos on Windows 10? Any interesting tips or tools to merge videos on Windows that we seem to have left out? Please let us know about them in the comment section below.

How to Merge Videos in VLC (With Pictures)

Looking to merge videos in VLC on your Windows or Mac computer?

In this article, we show you how to combine or merge two or more videos into one using VLC media player with clear step-by-step instructions and pictures.

Also, as a bonus, we show you an even easier way to merge videos on your Windows or Mac computer.

How to Merge Multiple Video Clips in VLC

You probably have VLC installed on your Windows or Mac computer. If you don’t, you can download VLC for Windows or VLC for Mac OS X.

Once you have installed VLC on your computer, follow these steps to combine or merge videos using it:

First, open VLC. Then click on the Media menu and select Open Multiple Files… from the dropdown menu.
In the Open Media popup window, under the File tab, click on the +Add button to import the videos you want to merge.
Once you’ve imported the videos you’d like to combine, click on the Convert / Save dropdown button in the bottom right corner of the popup window and select Convert from the dropdown menu.
In the Convert window that appears next, click on the Browse button in the bottom right corner of the popup window and select a location in your computer to save the merged video.
Finally, click on the Start button right below the browse button to save the video.

A simple Way to Merge or Combine Videos On Windows or Mac

If you’re on Windows or Mac, you can use Animaker’s video merger to easily merge several videos together for free! All it takes is 3 simple steps to merge all your videos using our super-simple video merging tool.

For those who are unaware of Animaker, it is an all-in-one DIY video-making app designed to help non-designers make professional-quality videos from the comfort of their browser.

Our video merging software works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc., and if you use one of these browsers, you can easily merge or combine your videos on your Windows or Mac computer.

Merge Your Videos in 3 Simple Steps using Animaker

Sign up/Log in and Pick the Dimensions

Log into your account or create a free one. Then pick the dimensions you want your output video file to be in. Do you want it to be in horizontal, vertical, or square dimensions? You can pick one of the premade dimensions from the Create a video section in your dashboard.

Or you can enter custom dimensions for your video by picking the Custom Size Video option from the same section above. Enter the width and height in pixels and hit Create Video.

Upload Your Videos and Merge Them Together

You can upload videos up to 20 GB in size. To upload your videos, go to the Upload tab in the main menu bar and click on the Upload button at the bottom of the tab window.

Alternatively, you can simply drag and drop your videos onto the area shown below.

In the scenes section, you can see that a scene has already been added to the project.

You can now set your first video onto that existing scene. Simply click on a video in the Uploads section to set it onto a scene.

Now add a new scene for each video. To add a new scene, click on the plus button at the bottom of the scene.

Now click on another uploaded video you’d like to add to this new scene. Repeat the same process for other videos you’d like to add and merge together.

Optionally, you can fine-tune the video footage you just added. You can trim, resize, crop, rotate, flip, mute, and adjust the brightness and contrast of your video files.

You can also add music, transitions, images, emojis, shapes, stickers, GIFs, etc.

Preview and Download the Video

Using Animaker’s online video editor, you can:

And the list goes on… feel free to check out these video editing tools and learn what makes Animaker the go-to video editor for marketers and content creators.

Got any questions about merging or combining your videos in VLC or on your Windows computer? Any interesting tips or tools to merge videos on Windows or Mac that we seem to have left out? Please let us know about them in the comment section below.

How to Combine Videos in Premiere Pro (With Pictures)

Looking to merge or combine videos in Premiere Pro?

In this article, we’ll show you how to combine or merge two video clips together using Adobe Premiere Pro with clear step-by-step instructions and pictures.

Also, we’ll show you an easier way to merge or combine clips online.

How to Combine Multiple Video Clips in Adobe Premiere Pro

Here are the steps to combine 2 or more videos using Adobe Premiere Pro:

Open Adobe Premiere Pro and create a new project. Click on the File menu from the menu bar and select New.
Now import the videos you want to combine. Click on the File menu in the menu bar and select Import.
Once you’ve imported the videos you want to merge, they’ll appear in the Project panel. Now drag and drop the videos onto the timeline.
Then select the two videos you want to combine. Press and hold the shift key and click on the two videos to select them.
Now right-click one of the selected clips and select Nest from the resulting dropdown menu. Regardless of the number of video clips you’ve selected, you’ll only have to right-click one of the selected clips to bring up the dropdown menu.
In the Nested Sequence Name window, enter a name and hit OK.

You’ll now notice that the background color has changed to green to indicate that the two videos have been merged.

A Simple Way to Merge or Combine Videos On Windows or Mac

If you’re on Windows or Mac, you can use Animaker’s merge video tool to easily merge several videos together for free! All it takes is 3 simple steps to merge all your videos using our super-simple video merging tool.

For those who are unaware of Animaker, it is an all-in-one DIY video-making app designed to help non-designers make professional-quality videos from the comfort of their browser.

Combine Your Videos in 3 Simple Steps using Animaker

Sign up/Log in and Pick the Dimensions

Log into your account or create a free one. Now choose the dimensions for your video. What dimensions do you want your output video file to be in? Do you want it to be horizontal or vertical or square? You can pick one of the premade dimensions from the Create a video section in your dashboard.