March 18, 2007

Need free and legal soundtracks for your video editing projects?

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.

Filed under Movie Making Tips, Video Editing Software by Myrtha Chang.
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August 12, 2007

Paul said:

Hi there,

How come the latest post was in March? Does anyone update this site anymore?

Just curious.

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