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Find and Add Music

Lesson 45 from: Video Production Essentials: Create, Edit and Post Online​

Philip Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones, Will Carnahan

Find and Add Music

Lesson 45 from: Video Production Essentials: Create, Edit and Post Online​

Philip Ebiner, Sam Shimizu-Jones, Will Carnahan

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45. Find and Add Music

Lessons

Class Trailer

Chapter 1 Introduction

1

Welcome to the Class

02:12
2

What Makes a Great Video

03:17
3

What Type of Video Should You Make

02:47

Chapter 2: Pre-production

4

Come up with a Great Video Ideas

05:05
5

Plan Your Video

03:30
6

The Pre-production Checklist

04:04

Chapter 3 Equipment - Our Suggestions for Getting Started

7

Does Equipment Matter

01:34
8

Our Recommended Cameras

06:00
9

Our Recommended Audio Equipment

04:37
10

Our Recommended Lighting Equipment

01:47
11

Our Recommended Editing Equipment

02:11
12

Our Recommended Drone Equipment

05:35
13

Quiz: Chapter 3

Chapter 4:Cinematography Basics

14

Exposing Your Shots

05:25
15

Compose Your Shots

04:25
16

Filming Yourself

01:09
17

Getting the Right Shot

03:43
18

Choose a Background

02:32
19

My Office Video Setup

02:54
20

Quiz: Chapter 4

Chapter 5: Tips for Shooting with Different Cameras

21

Exposing with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras

06:31
22

Focus with DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras

02:35
23

Stabilize Your Shots

02:57
24

Know Your Lenses

03:18
25

Shoot with Your Smartphone

05:10
26

Shoot with Your Webcam

05:49
27

Record Great Screencast Videos

04:20
28

Tips for Better Drone Shots

04:06
29

Types of Drone Shots

01:43
30

Quiz: Chapter 5

Chapter 6: Audio Recording and Microphones

31

Choose the Right Microphone for Your Video

03:14
32

Record Better Audio in Any Environment

01:27
33

How to Use a Lavalier Microphone

02:47
34

How to Use a Shotgun Microphone

00:55
35

How to Record Audio with Your Computer

01:27
36

Quiz: Chapter 6

Chapter 7: Video Lighting

37

Why We Light

01:03
38

Use Natural Light

04:14
39

The 3-point Video Lighting Setup

07:26
40

Quiz: Chapter 7

Chapter 8: Editing Better Videos

41

Intro to Editing

02:15
42

The Post-production Process

07:50
43

Craft a Story with Editing

05:21
44

Improve Your Audio with Editing

06:34
45

Find and Add Music

05:12
46

Design Clean and Professional Titles

03:15
47

Increase Video Engagement with Calls to Action

01:29
48

Quiz: Chapter 8

Chapter 9: Get More Views - Publishing Your Video Online

49

Export the Best Quality Video for Online

02:54
50

Tips for Posting Online

05:28
51

Grow Your Youtube Channel

04:41
52

Quiz: Chapter 9

Chapter 10: Case Studies: Real-world Filmmaking

53

Case Study - Corporate Promo Videos with Ghirardelli Chocolate

08:54
54

Case Study - Event Videography with Major Lazer

08:39
55

Case Study - Documentary Films with Phil

14:24
56

Case Study - Shooting By Yourself

15:32
57

Case Study - Wedding Videography

08:37
58

Case Study - Phil's Livestream Setup

04:23

Chapter 11: Conclusion

59

Thank You

00:59

Final Quiz

60

Final Quiz

Lesson Info

Find and Add Music

music is one way that you can make a boring video at least sound more interesting. But finding music that you can legally use in your videos is a pain in the rear. It's one of my least favorite things to do as a video creator. But it's something that I have to deal with on almost a daily or weekly basis. Finding music for my videos. So here are some different places to find free and cheap music for your own projects. Remember though that you can't use other people's music in your videos without getting the rights to it. Even if it's an educational video or a personal video, you're technically not supposed to use that other person's music. Youtube has always had a big problem with this because it's easy and fun for creators to use popular music for a while. They were taking down videos that used other people's music instead. What they do now is they actually give revenue from the ads generated from those videos to the musical artists. So if you use a Major Lazer song in your video and u...

pload it to Youtube, youtube will automatically be able to tell that you're using Major Lazer song and it will actually put ads on that video and the revenue from that ad won't go to you. It will go to Major Lazer. This doesn't mean it's fine to do it, especially if you're doing it not on youtube. But somewhere else. If you're selling the videos. If you're publishing it in a commercial or on tv or in the theaters. It's just Youtube's way of dealing with it. Okay, so here are my favorite places to find music. The first one is a free option. Youtube. If you sign up for a Youtube account, if you go to your creator studio and if you go down to create, there is an audio library with hundreds of songs that you can search through by genre by mood, instrument duration and a lot of these you can use in your videos no matter what for free, whether it's commercial, whether it's on Youtube or not, some of them you have to attribute to the author and it will have this little logo right here. And what this means is that when you upload, you just have to attribute it to the author by usually linking or at least writing their name in the description. The Youtube audio library is actually full of mostly high quality songs compared to some other free resources that take days or years to look through and find good music. You can quickly find great free music here. The next place that I like is audio jungle dot net. It's part of the un voto marketplace which does a lot of stock photos, stock, video, stock graphics and you can find Cheap music here. So you do have to pay for it. But tracks are generally between nine and $20 and they are high quality, they have almost 500,000 tracks and you can search again by genre by length by all kinds of things. Once you dive into their search or through their browsing feature. This is where I find a lot of music for my commercial projects because I don't want to use free music that really anybody can use and find on Youtube. That's the only downside about the Youtube library is that it's free for everyone. So now I hear those same songs playing over and over in Youtube videos and across the web. But with Audio Jungle, you don't have that problem as much. Yes, there's thousands of people downloading some of these songs but a lot of them I have never been downloaded or have been downloaded only a handful of times. So you can get more unique audio and music here in both of these you can find sound effects too, both in Youtube and Audio Jungle. Those can be helpful for different kinds of projects. There are also a few other websites that I don't recommend as much. But they do have songs. One is the free music archive. These are completely free songs that you can use in your videos. The quality in my opinion is not as good and it just takes a little bit longer to sift through the music to find a great song. There are two other paid options. One is Music Bed which actually has some very high quality songs. I really love it. It's just more expensive. Some of the licenses are over $100 for a song premium. Beat is in between music bed and Audio Jungle in terms of price and also has some great songs and sound effects. I just like using Audio Jungle because it's a little bit more economical. The last option for getting music is to have someone compose it. Here's the website for my buddy Nick who actually composed the music for my Anthony Carbajal documentary and he's just a friend that I know does music. So he was an easy find. But you can find composers just through a web search or by going to a local music school or a university that has a music program. Typically there are students who are open to either doing projects for free or at a low cost. So this is where I find my music. I hope you enjoyed this lesson and we'll see you in another one.

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