royalty free music

[Ed Dooley]

Sure, do a search of forums and you’ll find hundreds of posts answering the same question, with a whole lot of sites for music.
Ed

[Arnie Schlissel]

go to google.com and type in “royalty free music” in the search field.

Arnie
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[Jeff Carpenter]

My suggestion? Go back and put the Final Cut install DVD in the system and instal anything that was checked “off” the first time.

There’s things like DVD Studio Pro templates and Motion plug-ins, but more importantly there’s a TON of royalty free music in Soundtrack Pro.

Make sure you have the free space, and then load all of that onto your computer. Search for the track you want in Soundtrack Pro. When you find one you like, export it as an AIF file and import that into Final Cut.

There’s a lot of good stuff in there. I just did a 5-minute romance video using nothing but Soundtrack Pro and I found everything I needed.

[Brian Thomson]

I have used MacJams.com just be sure to check what the license agreement is. If you are not selling (ie: making any loot) you should be fine.

[David Peralta]

Ive had great success with sonicfire and Digital Juice. Good Libraries to have.

-dave

hmm… I wonder what this button does…

[Burt Hazard]

[Rob Grauert] “Also, in one of my classes about a year and a half ago I remember one of my teachers mentioning something about device that you hook up to your microphone. It allows you to set the levels, but if someone screams it doesn’t record above the set level. What is that device?”

An audio compressor/limiter

A hardware box would be a good thing to have for digital audio, for although FCP of course does have a compressor filter, it doesn’t help you if your levels are already clipped/distorted (I’ve heard people say that there isn’t any way to recover from this but I did see an article or ad in an audio magazine that showed a tantalizing picture of a piece of software/plugin/DAW or hardware that claimed to actually be able to mathematically reconstruct the peaks of clipped digital audio waveforms. Must be expensive though. And I forget what it was!)

[Chris Poisson]

I like Fresh Music and Soundogs.com.

Have a wonderful day.

[Burt Hazard]

As a follow-up to the clipping issue, I did a quick Wiki search and discovered that nowadays Adobe Audition, Audacity, Sound Forge, and Nero have some kind of audio peak restoration capabilies, but of course with Sound Forge and Nero you’d need a PC as well. 🙂

And they do point out that they do offer useful results with partially clipped audio.

[Steven J. gilbert]

I would suggest Sound Ideas https://www.sound-ideas.com. Excellent live music, not all canned or electronic. The quality of your music will drag your productions down or build them up. Excellent buy-out selection.

Steve

[Rafael Amador]

[Rob Grauert] “device that you hook up to your microphone. It allows you to set the levels, but if someone screams it doesn’t record above the set level. What is that device?
“
Almost every camera have a AGC option (Automatic Gain Control). If you set AGC, the signal will never reach the saturation level.

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