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Add Background Music

Layer background music or audio tracks onto your videos with proper volume balancing and fade effects.

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Background music transforms flat video content into engaging, emotional experiences. The right soundtrack makes tutorials more watchable, product demos more compelling, and social content more shareable. But mixing audio properly — balancing music against dialogue, adding fades, and avoiding copyright strikes — requires both skill and the right tools.

ToolRouter's edit_footage skill layers audio tracks onto your video with intelligent volume management. It balances background music against existing dialogue so the music enhances without overpowering. Add fade-ins, fade-outs, and ducking so music drops during speech and rises during visual-only segments.

This is invaluable for content creators adding production value to their videos, businesses creating branded video content with consistent audio identity, and social media teams who know that videos with music get significantly more engagement.

Agent Guides

Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Provide your video and audio: "Add this background track to my product demo video"
  3. Claude layers the music using edit_footage with auto-balanced levels
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ChatGPT

  1. Configure ToolRouter in ChatGPT via MCP settings
  2. Share your video and describe the audio: "Add upbeat background music to this tutorial"
  3. ChatGPT mixes the audio via ToolRouter
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to Copilot MCP config
  2. In Copilot Chat: "Add this lo-fi track as background music to my demo video"
  3. Copilot processes the audio mix via ToolRouter
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Provide the video and track: "Add background music to this marketing video"
  3. OpenClaw layers and balances the audio
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