How do you get both an audio and a music file playing at the same time in Windows Movie Maker?

Answer 1

That depends on what you mean by merging.If you are asking how to mask/overlap one audio over another, here's how:

> With both audio files imported into Windows Movie Maker

> Drag and drop each side-by-side into the Music/Audio track in the Time-line view

> Click, hold and drag the second audio file backwards over the first insertion
Note: A thin blue line appears if you are doing it correctly but don't let the line
disappear.

> Click Play in the Preview pane to hear results

Answer 2

There is only one Music/Audio track in Windows Movie Maker to work with. You cannot have two audio clips playing at the same time (they will run consecutively) unless you 'overlap' them.

To overlap (technically 'merge') audio on the Music/Audio track, simply click, hold and drag the second audio clip backwards over top of the first clip. A thin blue line appears when you do this. The farther you drag it backwards, the more overlapping there will be in the two tracks.

If you only want to music to fade in/fade out, I would suggest using those audio specific adjustment features (accessed by right-clicking the audio clip.) Or, if you wish to mix two audio clips completely in a professional manner, perhaps an external audio editor would be best to use.

Windows Movie Maker, unfortunately, is a very basic video editing software application with limited features. One of those limitations happens to be only ONE Music/Audio track to work with.

Answer 3

In the Time-line view of Windows Movie Maker:

> Click on the + sign beside the Video track (This opens up the audio track of the video)

> Now, click, hold and drag the audio down into the Audio/Music track below

The video itself will disappear. Then you can import and add other video/pics to the Video track.

Answer 4

You can't have 'two' audios files playing at the same time in Windows Movie Maker. There is only one audio track to work with.

If you are trying to piece together narration with background music in the program, the only way to do that is by 'overlapping' both audio files. Take the second audio piece (in Time-line view) and drag it backwards over the top of the first audio piece.

You will know if you are doing this correctly if you see a thin blue line appear as you are dragging it. Drag it only as far to the left as you can without the blue line disappearing. The two audio files on the Audio/Music track will now play together.

However, you can't individually 'tweak' the files following this process. Any editing you do to each file should be done before overlapping. In other words, fading in, lowering volume, fading out, etc, should be done beforehand.