Do I lose all my music if I sync video?

Hello,
I am at my grandparents' house, and I have got a couple of video files on their computer that I want to copy/transfer to my iPad, to watch on the way back home.
Most of the music on my iPad is not bought on the iTunes Store, but from various sources like CDs.
If I try to sync the iPad with the computer, it doesn't copy the music that isn't from iTunes Store to the PC
and if check 'sync films' (after I added the folder containing the video files to the iTunes library), that works, but it also deletes all the music that wasn't bought via the iTunes Store.
Is there any way to get both the videos and music on the iPad?

"If I try to sync the iPad with the computer, it doesn't copy the music that isn't from iTunes Store to the PC"
Correct
Iphone will sync with one and only one computer at a time. Syncing to another will erase the current content from the iphone.

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