Almost all my [tag]video editing[/tag] projects involves adding soundtrack. Soundtrack does a lot to engage the viewer emotionally. After years of making movies for friends and family, I found that I was reusing the same soundtrack a little too often. How to tell? When even your friends and family notice. But it’s not easy to find new soundtrack that is free and that I can use legally.
I was very happy therefore to discover www.SpliceMusic.com. Every sound on Splice is automatically covered with the creative commons attribution license. What this means is that as long as you give credit back to where you found it on SpliceMusic, you can legally use it for your [tag-tec]video editing[/tag-tec] projects for free. All you have to do is give credit where credit is due and you are in the clear.
Once you find the free soundtrack you want, you can download it as an MP3 file. You can then use a [tag-tec]video editing software[/tag-tec] to add the MP3 file to your movie projects. If video editing is new to you, an excellent [tag]free video editing software[/tag] we recommend is Windows Movie Maker by Microsoft.
But SpliceMusic is more than a collection of free soundtracks. It’s a free online sound mixer as well. You can start with a soundtrack, trim it, repeat it into a rhythmic pattern, add more soundtracks and compose a unique sound effect for your home movies.
This video below demos this fun process of finding and mixing soundtracks.
Adobe's Remix is a new Web-based [tag]video editing[/tag] tool that will be provided free to all Photobucket members in the coming weeks. Remix allows you to string together and edit short video clips. We covered the announcement of the online video editor last week, but got our hands on it this morning.
Remix is essentially a stripped-down version of [tag]Adobe Premiere Elements[/tag]. You get a timeline with clips and transitions, along with a source bin containing all the media from your Photobucket account. Adding clips to your movie is as simple as dragging and dropping. There's also a handy clipping tool if you feel like cutting out the boring bits. There are only three transitions to choose from, and they're all fades. This might seem like a letdown, but honestly if you've ever [tag]edited video[/tag] before, you know some of the flashier transitions aren't necessarily better than the fundamentals.
To put the finishing touches on your [tag]movie[/tag] you can add titles and all sorts of cheesy digital overlays, read more…
It's almost camping season again. Stowing away to nature, if sometimes only for a weekend, restores the spirit as little else can. As Richard Langer wrote in his classic book, 'Joy of Camping', "Once in a while we should treat ourselves to counting falling stars between the branches of a sheltering tree above our heads or beyond the misty gauze of our netted tent entrance, while other folks are home watching late-night movie reruns".
This musical video brings out the beauty and lure of camping. Notice that it was created from nothing but still images that was strung together with music added to it. This is a very simple video editing project that you can quickly put together with Windows Movie Maker (free software from Microsoft).
