--- title: "Birthday Video With Photos and Music – Free | birthday.video" description: "Make a birthday video with photos, video clips and music online, free: an animated card with their name, your memories and a Happy Birthday tune or your song." url: https://birthday.video/birthday-video-with-photos-and-music --- Free · made on your device # Birthday video with photos, clips and music Photos and short clips from your phone, a card with their name, and a Happy Birthday tune or a song of your own underneath. Made online, free and private. Free · no sign-up · no watermark Happy birthday Grandad 80 Eighty years of you All our love To make a birthday video with photos and music, pick a design, add your photos and short video clips in order, then choose the music: one of the free Happy Birthday arrangements, or a song file from your phone. Their name and age open the video, your message closes it, and you download an MP4. Mixing clips with photos is what makes it feel alive: a two-second clip of them laughing or blowing out candles between stills catches the eye in a way a photo can’t. If you only have photos, the [birthday slideshow](https://birthday.video/birthday-slideshow) page is about pacing a run of pictures. This page opens with the music choices ready. It all happens online in your browser, but nothing is uploaded: the photos, clips and song stay on your device. Start from one of these ## How to make a birthday video with photos and music 1. ### Choose the music first Press **Add photos and music**. **Add music** is open: pick a Happy Birthday arrangement, or add a song from your device. [ ![The Music panel listing No music and Happy Birthday arrangements: music box, piano, ukulele, party (selected) and lullaby](https://birthday.video/guides/editor/music-panel.webp) (enlarge image) ](https://birthday.video/guides/editor/music-panel.webp) The **Music** panel: our own Happy Birthday arrangements, or **Add music** for a song on your device. 2. ### Add photos and clips Press **Add photos and clips** and choose them in the order they should play. Keep clips short, two to six seconds each. [ ![The Whose birthday is it? sheet for the Confetti party template, with Name filled in as Maya, Age 30 and the Message Have the best day, an Add photos and clips button and the Make the birthday video button](https://birthday.video/guides/editor/whose-birthday.webp) (enlarge image) ](https://birthday.video/guides/editor/whose-birthday.webp) Type the **Name**, **Age** and **Message**, then **Add photos and clips** if you have them. 3. ### Write the card Type the **Name**, the **Age** if wanted, and a **Message** for the end. Choose a different design from **Templates** if you like. [ ![The Text panel open under the card, showing the Name, Age, From and Message fields with Maya, 30 and Have the best day typed in](https://birthday.video/guides/editor/text-panel.webp) (enlarge image) ](https://birthday.video/guides/editor/text-panel.webp) Every word on the card is in the **Text** panel. 4. ### Export Pick a **Format**, press **Export video**, then **Download video**, or **Share** on a phone. [ ![The Export video sheet with Video (MP4) selected, Full HD or Smaller file, the note 11 seconds with sound, made on this device and nothing uploaded, and the Export video button](https://birthday.video/guides/editor/export-video.webp) (enlarge image) ](https://birthday.video/guides/editor/export-video.webp) **Export video** opens this sheet: **Video (MP4)** for a video with sound. ## Mixing photos and clips * **Two to six seconds per clip.** Long clips stall the rhythm; trim them on your phone first if needed. * **A clip every four or five photos** keeps a long video moving. * **Keep the best clip for the end:** the candles, the first steps, the speech. * **Film upright or sideways, not both,** where you can. Then choose the matching **Format**: Story 9:16 for upright, Landscape 16:9 for sideways. If your clips are mostly people talking, choose a calm arrangement, or leave the music off altogether, as many people do for the spoken messages on the [birthday montage](https://birthday.video/birthday-montage) page. ## Choosing the music ### The free Happy Birthday tunes The melody of Happy Birthday is in the public domain, and the arrangements in **Add music** are made for this site, so you can use them in any video, including a public post. There are calm and lively ones; **Song only** saves one as an audio file for the party too. The [Happy Birthday song](https://birthday.video/happy-birthday-song) page lists them. ### A song of your own Their favourite song makes a video personal. **Add music** takes a song file you have on your phone or computer, such as an MP3 or M4A. Songs from streaming apps can’t be added, and social networks may mute well-known tracks in a public post, though a video you send privately is unaffected. ## Pacing it to the music A photo every three to five seconds suits most songs; slower for old family photos people want to study, faster for a party. As a rule of thumb, a one-minute tune carries about fifteen photos and a couple of clips, and a three-minute song about forty photos. If you have far more, pick the best and save the rest for an album. ## Photos and music: questions ### Can I make a birthday video with photos and music online for free? Yes. birthday.video runs in your browser and is free, with no watermark and no account. The photos and music are not uploaded. ### Which song formats can I add? Song files such as MP3, M4A and WAV that are saved on your device, or one of the free Happy Birthday arrangements. ### Can I use a copyrighted song? For a video you send privately, people usually do. For a public post, the network may mute or block a well-known song. The Happy Birthday arrangements here are free to use anywhere; see [is Happy Birthday copyrighted](https://birthday.video/is-happy-birthday-copyrighted). ### How many photos should I use? About fifteen for a one-minute tune and forty for a three-minute song, with a short clip every few photos. ### How do I add old printed photos? Photograph each print with your phone, straight on and in daylight, then add them with **Add photos and clips** like any other photo. ## More birthday video ideas * [ Birthday video maker Start from an animated template, add their name, photos and a song. ](https://birthday.video/) * [ Birthday slideshow Photos in order under a tune, opened by a card with their name. ](https://birthday.video/birthday-slideshow) * [ Free Happy Birthday song download Instrumental arrangements of the tune, free to download or put under a video. ](https://birthday.video/happy-birthday-song) * [ Birthday slideshow songs Song ideas by age and person, and which music you can use in a shared video. ](https://birthday.video/birthday-slideshow-songs) * [ Birthday montage from friends A clip from everyone, put together into one surprise tribute video. ](https://birthday.video/birthday-montage) * [ Happy birthday video to send now A finished design with their name typed in, as an MP4 with a tune or a GIF. ](https://birthday.video/happy-birthday-video) * [ Happy birthday in heaven video A gentle remembrance video with their photos and your words. ](https://birthday.video/happy-birthday-in-heaven) * [ Birthday video templates Every template in the editor, by occasion, with the formats it suits. ](https://birthday.video/birthday-video-templates)