Windows 10: how to make a small video with music for a home for sale

LorrieWilliams · Jun 16, 2020

how to make a small video with music for a home for sale

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Steve C · Jun 16, 2020

What exactly are are "My music", "My Pictures" and "My videos"

The link has the following advice that, of course, does NOT work in Win10 !
Workaround

If the My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, and My Videos links in the Start menu do not point to the Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos folders, you must manually redirect these links to the correct folders. To redirect these links, follow these steps:

Click Startthe Start button , right-click the link, and then click Properties.

On the Location tab, replace the wrong target location with the correct target location. For example, to redirect the My Music folder to the Music folder in Windows Vista, enter %systemdrive%\Users\user_name\Music.

Click Apply.

If this was a fix for Vista, it seems kind of sloppy to keep it around !

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If you CHECK THIS BOX they disappear.
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You can't redirect the shortcut links which is the subject of the post

Dparas · Jun 16, 2020

Cant turn off cloud collection on music + videos.

Music + videos settings only display suggestions link.. I'm from the philippines and i have the latest updates on my phone.. I need help because my music list is displaying duplicate

Thanks!!

Kari · Jun 16, 2020

adding background music to video

What is the easiest way to do so? I have no video editing experience
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You need a video editing program to do that. Because you tell you have no experience, I recommend you start with a free one before spending money, to see if video editing is something you might get interested in.

In my opinion, the absolutely easiest to use and by far the best of all free editors is OpenShot (OpenShot Video Editor | Free, Open, and Award-Winning Video Editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows!)

It is Open Source (Open source - Wikipedia), free with no hidden costs for additional features.

When installed, run OpenShot. List numbers refer to numbers in screenshot:

Select Project Files

Click + to browse to and import your video

Video will be added to Project Files

Drag the video to timeline, to any free track. Be sure to add video so that beginning of it touches the red vertical line at beginning of the track

Right click video track, select Separate Audio > Single clip

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Audio will be separated from video and moved to another track. Select the audio track, right click it and select Remove Clip:

Audio track will be cleared, the original audio of your video removed.

Import your music file to Project Files exactly as you imported the video, and drag it to any free track.

Usually the added audio track is not the same length than the video. If your music lasts longer than the video, go to end of timeline and drag audio track content so that it ends at the same point than video:

If your music track is shorter than video, you can add it again at the end of current audio track.

Now you can export (save) the video:

That's it! Easy, fast and free.

Note Please notice that if you want to publish the video on social media, YouTube and such, you must own copyrights for audio and video content, or have copyright owner's permission. On my 100+ Windows videos, when I feel the video needs some background music, I use the copyright free music from YouTube. Another free source is the Free Music Archive.