Add background music to a video with the Audio tab

A music bed sets the mood of a cut and gives the edit a pulse to follow. DepCut gives you two ways to get one. You can describe the track and generate it, or pick a ready-made track from the sample library. Both live in the Audio tab.

Open the Music tab

1. In the left panel, open AI Gen and choose Audio.
2. Switch from Voice to Music.

The generator sits at the top. Your generated tracks and the Sample library are listed below it.

Generate a track

1. Under Describe the music, write the mood, the instruments and the pace. "Warm acoustic guitar and soft piano, calm and hopeful" is the kind of line that works.
2. Choose Instrumental for a bed that sits under speech. Choose Song to let the model write and sing lyrics.
3. Open the Length menu and pick Clip for a short bed or Full track for a longer piece.
4. Open the Takes menu to render one to four versions at once.
5. Press Generate music.

Each finished track appears under Generated music as a green row with a waveform. Press the play button on a row to hear it before it touches your timeline. Generating music spends account credits.

Start from the sample library

Scroll below your generated tracks to the Sample library. Chips filter it by category: Songs, Cinematic, Ambient, Acoustic, Electronic, Upbeat, Chill, Corporate and Piano. Every card plays in place.

Press + on a card to bring that track into the project and onto the timeline. Click the card itself to load its prompt into the generator. Reword the prompt and generate your own variation of the same idea.

Place it on the timeline

Move the playhead to where the music should start, then press + on a track row. You can also drag the row onto the timeline. Drop it below the existing audio rows to start a new audio track.

The track lands as a green bar with its waveform. If another sound already holds that spot on the same row, the new clip slides to the next free slot.

Fit it to the video

Select the bar and the right panel shows its tabs:

• Trim shortens the start or the end.
• Volume sets the level of the whole clip.
• Fade in and Fade out soften the edges.
• Duck lowers everything else while this clip plays.

A soundtrack that runs past your last video clip makes the project longer, and the export with it. Trim the music so it ends where the picture ends, then add a Fade out so the last notes settle.

Set the volume with your voice in mind. Play a stretch of the cut where someone is speaking and lower the music until every word is easy to follow. Then raise it a little at a time until you can feel the music without it pulling attention away from the words.

If you plan to keep the music under speech for the whole video, choose Instrumental when you generate. A sung lyric competes with spoken words for the same part of the listener's attention.

Next step

Open DepCut, add a clip, and score it from the Audio tab. Generate two or three takes and keep the one that matches the pace of your edit.