Finding the right music for videos can be tiresome and usually takes forever. And when you’ve found it, you usually still have to edit your video around the music, not vice versa, in order to make it fit. We revisited Filmstro, which allows you to customize their 60 albums full of music tracks by using three simple sliders. Let’s take a look. In an ideal world, we would all have a composer, an orchestra and a band at hand to craft exactly the type of music we need for our productions. But the reality is, that there is usually neither the time nor the budget to do just that, for most films anyway – unlike the productions I shoot for as a DP, which are often bigger gigs, the corporate films I produce myself are usually of the smaller kind, which means that there is only budget to go with stock music in the first place. And I am sure that is true for many of you guys as well. Image Credit: Kyle Loftus from Pexels The endless search for stock music for your video … So what ends up happening: We spend hours and hours looking for the right tracks sifting through hundreds of tracks on stock music websites. Luckily, stock music has become “kind of” affordable for smaller productions these days, with many of these sites, among them Artlist, Epidemic Sounds, Premium Beats, Music Vine, Audiio or Musicbed and many others, offering subscriptions to their services which allow you to use...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 16 November, 2021