A Humorous Flowchart On Choosing Royalty-Free Music For Your Project
Jun 3, 2013
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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If you are shooting indie projects or editing wedding videos, you know how hard it is to find good music for reasonable prices. This is why many opt for Royalty Free music licensing. This is very similar to Royalty Free photography – you pay a lump sum and can use the music regardless of how many seconds of it you need / how it will be used / where geographically it will be played. (there are different fees per different uses, but the idea is similar – a one time buy out).
Like with anything off the shelf, Royalty Free music is not tailor made for a specific movie or a specific scene. Tumbler David Marino has a funny flow chart describing how he handles Royalty Free music in his movies.
If Royalty Free is still too expensive for you, and you want FREE, Kevin MacLeod has a great library and he only requires attribution to use it. (We have used his music too in our white background tutorial way back).
The fact that his music is both good and free makes Kevin one of the most prolific composers on IMDB with over 1080 titles (21 of which in various stages of production right now).
You can download a bigger version of this chart here.
[This is how I decide what music to use in a video via leftoversalad]
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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4 responses to “A Humorous Flowchart On Choosing Royalty-Free Music For Your Project”
I’d like to a add a great resource for high quality royalty free music. It’s Soundtaxi.net! 5 Different license models for different kind of use… Thanks!
Also, if you need creative commons royalty free music that has a free use option with credit, check out http://www.danosongs.com/
Great source for royalty free music: audiojungle
This was actually funny, was expecting a giant, complex and collaborate list XD, good point though if it fits it should work. Also wanted to through in http://www.smartsound.com – High quality music and your able to customize your tracks all the way down to the instrument. definitely worth a look into.