Vidmex allows you to mix any audio files with music soundtracks. Here's the list of supported formats:
Vidmex brings to life your speech, audio presentations or internet audio podcasts. By adding just the right musical nuance you can dramatically increase the impact of your presentations. Music can add that special touch to make your audio records stand out.
Soundtracks should be soft when the speaker is active in a presentation (we recommend to use calm music styles, such as Ambient, New Age, Trance, for example: Jon Jenkins, David Arkenstone, Mirror System, Solar Quest, Monty Forester, Enigma etc.).
Music is used to create a mood, energy level or to get the audiences attention. Be sure you know what mood you want to create, the level of energy you want to introduce before you begin choosing a piece of music. Use the same musical themes at the beginning of each audio file. This creates continuity and familiarity with your presentations.
You can use music as background for thematic segments, during credits, to transition between speakers for audio presentations, to skew your presentation to a different audience demographic, to create an attention-getting opening or to create a strong closing.
In this tutorial we will show you how to mix music with audio presentation speech.mp3 at the beginning of the file, and in the middle of the file:
Step 1
Launch Vidmex, open your audio presentation without music (speech.mp3 - length: 00:20:46).
Click the Play button, and decide when you want to insert music. Let's choose two points of start time: 00:00:00 and 00:10:35.
Select speech.mp3 file in Playlist and click Set Playback Range... from Edit menu.
Set the Start/End values of the first audio fragment: 00:00:00 - 00:10:35. Click Apply.
The first audio fragment will appear in Playlist:
Step 2
Next, click Add File(s)... from File menu. Find and open your music file (for example: Jon Jenkins - Through Different Eyes.mp3). The file will be added in Playlist:
Now, we will mix the first audio fragment (from 00:00:00 start time point) with music file. Note, only 5 minutes and 30 seconds of the speech fragment will be processed (the length of music file), the rest of the time will contain speech with no music.
Click Select All from Edit menu (or press Ctrl+A). So, two files will be selected. It's very important!
Click Mix Audio/Video from Operation menu.
Choose filename, and path where the first audio mix must be saved. We will mix fragments as WAV file. Click Next.
Choose PCM (for the highest quality) or MS ADPCM (if you haven't enough disk space).
Click Extract.
Step 3
Ok. The first speech audio fragment is mixed with music and saved as speech_mix1.wav file. Next, we must mix the second speech audio fragment with another music file.
Remove the music file from Playlist: select it, right-click and choose Clear selected item(s) from the pop-up menu (or press Delete key).
Again, select speech.mp3 file in Playlist and click Set Playback Range... from Edit menu.
Set the Start/End values of the second speech audio fragment: 00:10:35 - 00:20:46. Click Apply.
Step 4
Next, click Add File(s)... from File menu. Find and open your another music file (for example: Jon Jenkins - Source.mp3). The file will be added in Playlist:
By analogy:
Now, we will mix the second audio fragment (from 00:10:35 start time point) with another music file. Note, only 6 minutes and 2 seconds of the speech fragment will be processed (the length of music file), the rest of the time will contain speech with no music.
IMPORTANT: Click Select All from Edit menu (or press Ctrl+A). So, two files will be selected.
Click Mix Audio/Video from Operation menu.
Choose filename, and path where the second audio mix must be saved. We will mix fragments as WAV file. Click Next.
Choose PCM (for the highest quality) or MS ADPCM (if you haven't enough disk space). Click Extract.
Step 5
We have already mixed two speech audio fragments with two different songs, and saved mixed files as speech_mix1.wav and speech_mix2.wav. Finally, we will merge two audio fragments into one continuous file speech_mix.mp3.
Clear Playlist: click Remove All from Edit menu (or press Ctrl+Del).
Click Add File(s)... from File menu. Find, select your mixed files (speech_mix1.wav and speech_mix2.wav) and click Open.
Files will be added into Playlist:
Click Select All from Edit menu (or press Ctrl+A). So, two files will be selected.
Click Merge Audio from Operation menu.
Enter filename, and choose path where your full audio mix must be saved. Select MP3 (MPEG Layer-3) output format.
Choose MPEG Layer-3 codec. (You can download and install the latest unlimited version of the codec: ).
Click Extract and wait several minutes.
Done! We have mixed speech.mp3 audio presentation with two songs (at the beginning of audio file and in the middle of audio file).