I was wondering how do you choose the right music for your videos, because I don't know if these movie makers now the title and the song already or just look, but how do you do this. I can get all the ideas for a movie just can't choose the music because I only really listen to rap and dance music.
So could anyone help me with this because I don't know how to choose the right music but I do know where to find music, is there a site what helps you with this or not?

I use Mozilla firefox, go on youtube,download the flv using downlooad helper,then conevert it into a mp3

Quote from master_lfs.5101 :

I use Mozilla firefox, go on youtube,download the flv using downlooad helper,then conevert it into a mp3

oh ok thanks, anyone else

Use peer to peer sharing softwares, but i wont recommend it. Since they can be traced.

Prolly Torrents, there the safest around.

Search on youtube for tracks.

Depends really, if its something fast paced, maybe some drum n bass, dance etc...

If its slow, some chill out music, trance hiphop whatever man.

Ideally i wouldnt use my favourite songs over drift videos, coz they just wont fit in. You end up hating that favourite song then.

Or keep watching other peoples LFS videos and get some idea to inspire you!.

I've used some FLV converters, they make the track quality so lame when you use it over your video. It just sounds so nasty. Use a high quality track.

Quote from squad_e :

Use peer to peer sharing softwares, but i wont recommend it. Since they can be traced.

Prolly Torrents, there the safest around.

Search on youtube for tracks.

Depends really, if its something fast paced, maybe some drum n bass, dance etc...

If its slow, some chill out music, trance hiphop whatever man.

Ideally i wouldnt use my favourite songs over drift videos, coz they just wont fit in. You end up hating that favourite song then.

Or keep watching other peoples LFS videos and get some idea to inspire you!.

ok, I always use torrents normally anyway.

I know there is a add-on for firefox what searches for videos and you can then download them, I have forgot the name of the add-on know, can anyone send me the link to it, I think it was something called getvideos or something like that.

well i dont use that addon i use download helper then convert it


when i get my laptop back (maybe tommarow) i can send you it through email!

oh, how can you use trance for slow movies because trance is slightly fast music

Quote from master_lfs.5101 :

well i dont use that addon i use download helper then convert it


when i get my laptop back (maybe tommarow) i can send you it through email!

You mean this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006

yes, then i take converter and turn it into a mp3

i would use the music from the 2008 garmin ad!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ClAn_Opi-ds

i would drive a mini cooper and make cuts to shots of me cornering

so that it would seem like i was driving really fast!

lol!

Quote from atlantian :

i would use the music from the 2008 garmin ad!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ClAn_Opi-ds

i would drive a mini cooper and make cuts to shots of me cornering

so that it would seem like i was driving really fast!

lol!

oookk, I was on about what type of music I would use for different speeds and type of movies and where I would find the music and what would I search for to get the right search results.

errm i kinda answered the first part of the question...

what kinda music to use..

I actually do it a little different. I might hear a certain piece of music, and i then get ideas about what to put in a video based on the actual music. I also have ideas for video bits that I have yet to find music for, but usually, listening to something will give me inspiration.

Also, try this site:

http://freeplaymusic.com

You can search under feel, style etc and there is just about every different style of music there. You can preview each track and download a high quality MP3 absolutely free, and it is all royalty free too. A large number of tracks also have different length versions (like there is a full version which might be 2m23secs or whatever, then there is also a 60sec, a 30sec version etc). Excellent site.

Quote from atlantian :

errm i kinda answered the first part of the question...

what kinda music to use..

I know, but you can obviously use different kinds of music then what you said, just asking for others opinions thats all

Quote from Damo74 :

I actually do it a little different. I might hear a certain piece of music, and i then get ideas about what to put in a video based on the actual music. I also have ideas for video bits that I have yet to find music for, but usually, listening to something will give me inspiration.

Also, try this site:

http://freeplaymusic.com

You can search under feel, style etc and there is just about every different style of music there. You can preview each track and download a high quality MP3 absolutely free, and it is all royalty free too. A large number of tracks also have different length versions (like there is a full version which might be 2m23secs or whatever, then there is also a 60sec, a 30sec version etc). Excellent site.

I'll check it out, thanks

Quote from sam93 :

oh, how can you use trance for slow movies because trance is slightly fast music

That's Easy. There's loads of it. you can get slow trance too.

Watch this LFs video for your answer.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aQZu9G83Dsk

I'm no video editor/maker but if you listen to enough music you'll come across a song and have thoughts going through your head saying 'video material' or something like that.

And it doesn't always have to be the music to your own taste. Personally I can't stand trance or crap like that, but if put with a decent video which is more fast paced and upbeat then it works well.

When I make videos for the League of the America's we have to use non-copyrighted music. 95% of it is techno or electronica based music so if your looking for something like that, non-copyright might be the way to go, plus they are legal... I'm going to tell you the quality of the music is going to go down greatly but like I said, it's just about the only legal way to use music for LFS videos. Thats why you see a copyright at the end of our videos because we actually have a copyright to them, with copyrighted music we couldn't do that.

www.artistserver.com

Quote from Damo74 :

I actually do it a little different. I might hear a certain piece of music, and i then get ideas about what to put in a video based on the actual music. I also have ideas for video bits that I have yet to find music for, but usually, listening to something will give me inspiration.

+1

If you haven't some idea, you probably wont be able to do more than average vids.

Quote from squad_e :

Use peer to peer sharing softwares, but i wont recommend it. Since they can be traced.

Erm, you do know Torrents can be traced too, right?

uTorrent quite happily tells me the IP of other users downloading (and Seeding) the file.

If this news worries you (which it probably should) then PeerGaurdian is probably for you...

Quote from Jakg :

Erm, you do know Torrents can be traced too, right?

uTorrent quite happily tells me the IP of other users downloading (and Seeding) the file.

If this news worries you (which it probably should) then PeerGaurdian is probably for you...

Well I've heard other stories, but imo torrent results are always better in quality. So ignorance is bliss

Quote from Jakg :

Erm, you do know Torrents can be traced too, right?

BitTorrent is p2p.

I think he meant that you're less likely to get fake/malware infested files than the likes of Limewire etc.