Whether you want to add background music to an animated GIF or make a YouTube video of GIFs looping to your DJ set, you can do both with Descript’s GIF maker, which includes its own library of royalty-free music and GIFs. Add music to a GIF, or vice versa, and export it as a video in Descript.
While adding sound to a GIF file technically makes it not a GIF (it’s an MP4), looping song GIFs are a common way to animate music online. It’s a great way to promote your music on YouTube, or promote any content with scroll-stopping clips on social media.
Drag and drop your GIF and/or music files to a new Descript project. You can also add GIFs or music from the stock library or create new GIFs by trimming a video and looping it.
Extend the duration of your GIF so it loops until the end of your song or whatever you want the duration of the video to be.
To share your completed song GIF, click the share button and select video as your export option (remember, you don’t want to choose a GIF image file format because that won’t have audio). You can export your new music GIF as a video to your YouTube channel or post the MP4 file on other social media platforms.
While adding sound to a GIF file technically makes it not a GIF (it’s an MP4), looping song GIFs are a common way to animate music online. It’s a great way to promote your music on YouTube, or promote any content with scroll-stopping clips on social media.
If you're making GIFs from your team's content, chances are that you'll resize and change the aspect ratio in the process. Because Descript is non-destructive, you can make as many changes to your video as you need without ruining your team's work. You’ll always have the originals saved in Descript’s cloud.
Extended music GIF mixes may mean you have many music files and many GIFs. You could set them sequentially like a slideshow or have some fun and blend them from sequence to sequence. In any case, you'll want to overlay your watermark on a separate layer.
If you want to credit your music and GIF sources in the video (and you should), it’s easy to add text to your GIFs. Upload your favorite fonts to Descript to keep everything cohesive.
There are no videomakers that can export musical GIF image files. Although you can edit a GIF and create silent GIFs from video files, you can only keep music and video when exporting your project as an MP4. However, it's possible to have embedded MP4s auto-play and loop on your website with a little coding know-how.
The key to comedy is timing. So if you want to create funny GIFs, you can edit the duration on the right-hand side of the workstation and make your GIF 0.1–30x the original speed. Switch it up using the blade tool to create separate sections and alternate speeds.
Descript’s free version has unlimited uploads, and the first three hours of transcription are included. If you don’t want our watermark on your content, you can subscribe to our $12/month Creator package and transcribe 10 hours monthly or our $24/month Pro package for 30 hours monthly. Contact us to negotiate pricing for our Enterprise package, including a dedicated account representative, onboarding, and training.
Whether you want to add background music to an animated GIF or make a YouTube video of GIFs looping to your DJ set, you can do both with Descript’s GIF maker, which includes its own library of royalty-free music and GIFs. Add music to a GIF, or vice versa, and export it as a video in Descript.
Drag and drop your GIF and/or music files to a new Descript project. You can also add GIFs or music from the stock library or create new GIFs by trimming a video and looping it.
Extend the duration of your GIF so it loops until the end of your song or whatever you want the duration of the video to be.
To share your completed song GIF, click the share button and select video as your export option (remember, you don’t want to choose a GIF image file format because that won’t have audio). You can export your new music GIF as a video to your YouTube channel or post the MP4 file on other social media platforms.
