VS 10 ; choosing appropriate music to enhance home video

olsonju · Post by **olsonju** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:29 am

I have sampled the music available in video studio 10 and see that the choices are limited. I understand that I can import audio from my own sources. Do you have suggestions for obtaining music? I am realizing that it is time consuming to find the appropriate music for a video. I am wondering how others have found suitable music for their videos. I've started to listen to my own CD collection, but I haven't found anything that I like.

jo

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:05 am

Someone might be able to reply about when smart-sounds was introduced into which version. in VS11+ the smartsound library is quite reasonable but really not my style of music. While they have different themes there is a very American-esq quality about them that doesn;t fit in with wht I generally tend to do.

Recently I completed a 15 minute slide show project as a birthday gift and I simply asked here what her favourite music was. I had most of the CD's and burrowed ones I didn't.

You can also do a google search for any free sound FX out there or royalty free instrumental tracks.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:57 pm

SmartSound comes with VS. You can purchase more music from their site.

Digital Juice has great, high-quality music. A bit pricey, but they are always having deals. You just have to be patient.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:36 pm

Two sites from which you can download royalty free music for use in your videos without having any concerns about infringing any ones copyright.

http://www.yopo.co.uk/index.html

http://www.akmmusic.co.uk/

and one which may or may not infringe copyright depending on you usage of them

http://www.ilovewavs.com/index.htm

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Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:07 pm

Three sites from which you can download royalty free music for use in your videos without having any concerns about infringing any ones copyright.

The Ilovewavs.com site has music from movies and tv shows, so using music from that site would be infringing on someone's rights

but that's a whole other can o' worms.

Maybe Steve could add those to the Free Stuff thread.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:09 pm

Ah - you just beat me to it Jeff - I was just elaborating on that last site at exactly the same time as you posted.

Anyone thinking of using .wavs from there should also read :-

http://ilovewavs.com/FairUse.htm

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Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:26 pm

There's some good stuff there, though. Of course, for personal use only

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MrA · Post by **MrA** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:55 am

Sonic fire ROX! A bit pricey, but, very worth it.. http://www.smartsound.com/sonicfire/index.html

olsonju · Post by **olsonju** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 11:40 pm

i thank you, your input was very helpful to me. i am going to purchase sonicfire pro 4.5.
jo

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:18 am

olsonju wrote:i thank you, your input was very helpful to me. i am going to purchase sonicfire pro 4.5.
jo

No need - the smartsound works with VideoStudio anyway.
The advantage though of having SonicFire Pro is it contains wizards that help you locate the music you want quickly be stating things like
type of music e.g. classical
Mood e.g. atmospheric
plus a few other keywords.