The music is the hardest part...

[MassGuy]

I think the hardest part of making is video is the music. First I have to find a place to get free music unless I want to buy something on iTunes which I do once in awhile. Then it has to go along with the theme of the video and hopefully it's the correct length or at least cut to sound good when the video ends. I sometimes put up videos without any sound but I think people lose interest in them. YouTube makes it fairly easy to match up music but I prefer to create my own for there and Facebook.

 

[Nestmac]

For music, you can check freemusicarchive.org. There you can find different genres and have different licenses for different applications.

 

[Spazz_MMCF]

There are several sites available for free music ( just give them credit )

It's best to add video to music... and not music to video... from the editor standpoint.

You can clip videos just where you need them to on the start/end of a beat... I mutli-split videos to use several clips in succession to be able to hit the beats of music where I need them...

Give it a try... it works quite well

 

[MassGuy]

I add music to most of my videos. I mean videos to most music Some are easy. For example I used the song For the love of money by The O'Jays for a video of a casino. Very appropriate. Some music can't be used on YouTube because of copywrite. I've had a few videos blocked in certain countries because of that. Sites like freemusicarchive.org are good. They have a lot to chose from but I don't know any of the music. So I have to sit and listen to a lot of random music until I find something that might work. At that point, I'm adding the music to my video.

 

[John Locke]

I agree, the music selection is the toughest part. I use audioblocks.com for royalty free music, $99/yr unlimited. I really like their method to quickly listen to music. It's fast and efficient, I've never seen anything more convenient. However, it's still tedious to listen to 25 titles to find something appropriate for the video subject. Try finding appropriate music for a fire that's destroying homes! That's not easy, but I found one. I'm always looking for other music sources. Audioblocks is good, but I've used so many of their titles, that I've used some twice because I like the song so much. All of their titles have no lyrics, only instrumentals. Although all music is royalty free with audioblocks.com, I ALWAYS get infringement notices from YouTube that I have to rebut. That's a hassle, when everyone is claiming copyrights infringement on music I've paid for the rights to. My rebuttals always come back OK, with rights released, but it's such a hassle. So my advice on that is, ALWAYS put the song title and source of the music in the description of YouTube so anyone challenging the copyrights can clearly see where you obtained the music. But the bigger reason is so YOU can remember the song title and where the song came from a month later when the copyright infringement notices appear.

Once I find the appropriate song, that's long enough (typically 3min), I can punch out a video in about 2hrs, complete with transitions and titling, timed to the music. But finding the right song can take 15 to 30 minutes, sometimes an hour.

The song for this below took me 20min to find in Audioblocks, but I didn't really know what I was looking for at the time. When I found this jazz title it reminded me of the TV series Frazier which used a jazz song, and was about Seattle, so that's why I used it.

 

[jryser]

That's why I write my own!!!

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[Eagle one 556]

Find any song on YouTube and google YouTube to mp3 on google and download it as mp3. Or Apple Music

 

[With The Birds]

That's why I write my own!!!

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The auratones, NS10’s and lava lamp are a necessity in any control room or writing suite.

 

[MassGuy]

Find any song on YouTube and google YouTube to mp3 on google and download it as mp3. Or Apple Music

This is going to make life MUCH easier!!! I never knew about it! Tried it with one song. Works perfect!

 

[Eagle one 556]

This is going to make life MUCH easier!!! I never knew about it! Tried it with one song. Works perfect!

Yea been using this method for over 8 years now. Glad I could help [emoji1362]

 

[John Locke]

Yea been using this method for over 8 years now. Glad I could help [emoji1362]

So how do you obtain the rights to that music once you take it from YouTube?

All the music I have paid for and publish, I always get an infringement of copyrights notice that I have to rebut to get the rights released. This happens almost every time I publish with music I've paid for the license for unlimited usage. How you address this problem?

 

[John Locke]

In my latest video edit called Jurassic Park Movie Set, I stumbled upon the sound effects section in Audioblocks.com that worked really well to create the mood I was trying to get in my drone video of the Jurassic Park movie set in Hawaii. If you have headphones, check this video out. Turn up the sound, that's the best part. Enjoy!

 

[jryser]

Sweet video dude!

 

[Eagle one 556]

So how do you obtain the rights to that music once you take it from YouTube?

All the music I have paid for and publish, I always get an infringement of copyrights notice that I have to rebut to get the rights released. This happens almost every time I publish with music I've paid for the license for unlimited usage. How you address this problem?

Where are you uploading your videos that this copyright notice keeps popping up? I get that from time to time when posting clips I edit on Instagram and on Facebook every now and then but when I upload the video with the song passed the first 10 seconds of the song and upload it like that always works for me it can’t play from the beginning. I’m not sure if you understand.

But on YouTube never had a problem. With any song whatsoever

 

[John Locke]

Where are you uploading your videos that this copyright notice keeps popping up? I get that from time to time when posting clips I edit on Instagram and on Facebook every now and then but when I upload the video with the song passed the first 10 seconds of the song and upload it like that always works for me it can’t play from the beginning. I’m not sure if you understand.

But on YouTube never had a problem. With any song whatsoever

Sorry, must have forgotten to mention, this is YouTube, happens all the time. When you go into "Creator Studio" is will state in that view if you have copyrights infringement. Here's one that I'm currently disputing. It's so annoying having to dispute practically every video song title for copyrights, even though I've paid for the unlimited usage rights.

 

[Eagle one 556]

Sorry, must have forgotten to mention, this is YouTube, happens all the time. When you go into "Creator Studio" is will state in that view if you have copyrights infringement. Here's one that I'm currently disputing. It's so annoying having to dispute practically every video song title for copyrightgs, even though I've paid for the unlimited usage rights.

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Wow thanks for the heads up. I guess Apple Music will probably still be considered a no go. Well thanks for the tip. Certainly don’t want to get in to any trouble trying to put a video up on YouTube.

 

[Chameleon99]

I mutli-split videos to use several clips in succession to be able to hit the beats of music where I need them

Have you posted any examples here, as I'd like to view that. Cheers

 

[John Locke]

First I have to find a place to get free music unless I want to buy something on iTunes which I do once in awhile

Just because you buy the music from iTunes doesn't mean you have rights to publish it with your video on YouTube, Facebook or Vimeo. You will likely have copyright infringement issues, sometimes banning your video form YouTube.

 

[John Locke]

Have you posted any examples here, as I'd like to view that. Cheers

Here's a video I created today that changes to the beat of the music.

 

[Chameleon99]

Here's a video I created today that changes to the beat of the music.

I like it...you also change at the same 5secs/bar too, keeping a 'bigger-picture' consistency so that the visual is balanced with the music overall, and the effect is more than merely just a visual change on a beat..cleverly done.
Thank you for sharing.
( I also had to smile at the matching of the drum beat at 1:40 to the little one jumping in the water.)