Add background music to your video

You can add background music to your Tella video from Tella’s built-in music library, or upload your own track. You can also preview tracks, adjust the volume, and remove or replace music at any time. Background music applies to the whole video, not to a single clip — there’s one background track for the video, and it plays across every clip.

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Open the audio tab

1. Open your video in the Tella editor.
2. Select the audio tab in the sidebar.

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Browse and add a track from the music library

The audio tab shows a few suggested tracks — click the play button on a track to preview it, and click Add to apply it. To see the full library:

1. In the audio tab, click Browse all. This opens the Music library panel.
2. Browse Tella music presets organized by category — Calm, Energetic, Focused, and Playful — or use the search box to find a specific track.
3. Click the play button on a track to preview it.
4. When you find one you like, click the track to add it to your video.

The track is added across the full duration of your video.

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Upload your own background music

To add a local audio file directly to the current video:

1. Open Audio in the sidebar.
2. Click Upload beside Background music.
3. Choose an audio file from your computer.

Tella uploads the file and applies it as the video’s background music. To save a track for reuse, click Browse all and upload it to the Personal or Workspace section of the Music library. Select the uploaded track to apply it to the current video. Personal tracks are available to you; Workspace tracks are available to workspace members.

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Adjust the music volume

1. Use the volume control in the audio tab to make the music louder or quieter.

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Remove or replace the track

1. To remove the current track, select the remove option in the audio tab.
2. To swap it for a different track, click Change music — this opens the Music library panel where you can pick another track or upload your own.

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Why does my uploaded audio fade in/out?

Background music is meant to sit gently behind your voice, so Tella shapes it automatically:

• It fades in at the start and fades out at the end of your video, so the music eases in and out instead of cutting abruptly. This is expected behavior for background music — it’s not a glitch with your file.
• It’s mixed under your existing audio at the music volume you set, so your voiceover and screen audio stay in front.

If you uploaded a track expecting it to play at full volume as the main audio, that’s why it sounds quiet and fades — the Audio tab is for background music, not for a primary voiceover track.

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How Tella handles track length

• If your background track is longer than your video, Tella fades it out at the end of the video.
• If your background track is shorter than your video, Tella loops it so you have music for the full duration.

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Preview your video with music

1. Click Play to preview the video with your background music.
2. If needed, adjust the volume until it sounds right.

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Set background music via the API or MCP

Background music can also be set and removed programmatically. Use PUT /v1/videos/{id}/background-music and DELETE /v1/videos/{id}/background-music in the Public API, or the set_background_music and remove_background_music tools in the MCP server.