Background music & sources

[The Publisher]

I purchased SonicFire Pro. You can make the soundtracks exactly the length you want, with a proper ending too, BUT, going much longer than the song makes it sound somewhat tediously repetitive.

Here are some suggestions, and please, by all means, add your music sources and what you think of them, costs, etc.

Audio Network

Davenport Music

Digital Juice

GMP Music

Jamendo

MagnaTune

Music Bakery

Royalty Free Music

SonicFire Pro

Sounddogs

Stock 20

As you all chime in any good tips you have I will edit the above list and add the referred source in alphabetical order.

[Papa Bear]

Digital Juice is very good and they have a lot of flexibility. It and Sonic Fire is all I use.

[The Publisher]

Ok, I added Digital Juice, thanks Papa.

[HDV_Diva]

I like the SonicFire Pro and the SmartSound Music. It allows me to create variations that fit my films, so now I can focus on the visual part of the production but have very good sound and quality.

Barbara

[The Publisher]

What I am finding with Smartsound is although it is quite useful being able to make the music the exact length you need, making it much longer makes it quite monotonously repetitive.

[David White]

SONY also has a software product called Cinescore which I imagine is similar to SonicFire in that it allows you to create music to fit the length of your video. I purchased the product but, apart from playing a bit to figure out how it works, have yet to use it in any of my productions. My preference is to find a piece of royalty free music created by real musicians that fits the mood I am attempting to portray and then edit the video to the music. In my opinion this allows the video and audio tracks to work in co-operative harmony as though they belong together.

[The Publisher]

Yes, this time around I am going to lay down the score first but the workflow looks like it will be more daunting.

[klemens Gann]

Here is a post with samples of Pady Mc Harding who is composing music for underwater videos.
http://www.scubamagazine.net/showthr...erwater-videos

[The Publisher]

It has to be interesting creating music from scratch like your friend Pady.

I know when I am editing, the tracks are boring with no music or sound. When I am searching for music, once I find something, I play the track at its source while watching the sequence in my editing timeline. If it seems good, I obtain it, along with a few others. Then I lay down multiple sound tracks to a particular sequence, then listen to each one individually as the timeline plays. I pick which one has the right feel although I sometimes ask for other's opinions too.