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inspiration for soundtracks
Where do you get inspiration for soundtracks? I’m going to be making some movies of some day long college trips. I’ll only have a couple of hours to make the 5 min long movie before screening it that evening, so I’ve been planning in advance good sound tracks. It’s a geography college trip in the mountains.
I have lots of good modern / pop ideas, but I’d like some nice atmospheric classical or choral tracks as well. Short of watching 100s of hollywood movies, where can I go to learn about popular tracks that have been used in different contexts in the movies?
Copyright is not an issue, I will not be distributing the video.
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Ennia? Clanned?
But I’m not sure whether copyrights are not an issue when you are going to show it for a large public (even when this is a college trip).
Theo
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Digital Juice has royalty-free music called Stack Traxx. It covers many different genres. Video Copilot also has music called Proscores and sounds really nice on their demo. If you want “free” royal-free scores you would just have google it and probably spend forever trying to find something that is really “free” 🙂
https://www.digitaljuice.com/products/product_volumes.asp?pvid=8
https://www.videocopilot.net/products/proscores/James
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Thank you. I’m not looking for royalty free. In my experience there’s nothing ruins videos more than crappy royalty free music, and I pity the videographers who have to use royalty free stuff with their wedding slideshows and whatnot. I need proper music, and it helps when people recognise tracks. That’s why Holywood pays for music licenses.
I am not showing to the public, please let’s not turn this into a copyright/royalty free debate. It will be shown in the evening, for fun, to 50 college kids.
I want to know how people go about finding the good tracks. Is there a well know list of songs that most frequently appear in films?
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In my experience there’s nothing ruins videos more than crappy royalty free music
Did you even listen to any of the samples from those links? You can find scores very similar to any hollywood movie. If you want the soundtrack of a movie you can search https://www.imdb.com/ and it might have a link to buy it or go to amazon and search for it. Or iTunes.
James
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A video shown to 50 people is a public performance. Embedding copyrighted music into such a video is a copyright violation. I don’t think anyone on this forum is going to explain how to obtain copyrighted music for that usage.
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That’s sad, but I understand your position. I already have a hard drive and CD collection chock full of music, so I’m not in the least bit interested in learning how to acquire mp3s.
What I find so sad is when amateur movie makers are coerced or bullied into using utter trash royalty free electric keyboard sounding crap music because of legal paranoia from people such as yourself. I have already found some great (copyrighted) soundtracks which I intend to use. They will go down really well because people know the songs, and it really gives the video so much more life when you use real music.
If you killjoys had your way we’d all be listening to computer generated commercial filler music with our vids. Can you imagine how sad that would be? It would really suck.
I guess I’ll just have to work through my music collection the hard way and make a note of those tracks that I could use. But I sure as hell won’t be using royalty free nonsense, and I sure as hell know my video will be 1000 times more engaging if I use decent, well produced, well known, and unfortunately well copyrighted music.
It’s funny you think 50 is public. What if my video were for 15 people? Or 5? Or just 1? Would you still tell me to use royalty free. It really bugs me that pro royalty free people don’t understand the role of music in adding atmosphere to their movies.
Oh well, I’m sorry this is a bit provocative, and I understand you can’t encourage me to use copyright sources, but you surely must see how deprived our audiences would be if we were to use the crappy royalty free stuff that some of you advocate?
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Mike, you’re an idiot and you’re about to be a thief.
Go away and stop bothering us.
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A thief? Wow.
What if I told you I was driving a minivan full of students from the college to the field trip. Am I allowed to play music during the journey? Or is that ‘broadcasting’?
The fact that you aren’t willing to consider these issues really surprises me, but I’m not surprised you’d rather say “Go away and stop bothering us”. Pathetic response.
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Guys, unless you want to get banned from this site, I strongly recommend toning it down A LOT!!
The unfortunate reality is that a lot of folks regularly rip CDs or music from iTunes to use in their productions.
I’ve even seen wedding producers offer current music on their web sites which, IMO, is a definite no-no.
Until the copyright cops come up with a fair and equitable way to make music rights affordable to the low budget producer (I believe that Australia does this already), this will continue to happen on a daily basis.
All we can do is continue to suggest the use of royalty-free music.
If the poster chooses to ignore the suggestion, we’ve done all we can.Personal attacks are NOT welcome here so please keep your opinions to yourself and stick with the facts.
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