Here’s Why You Should Get Audio Production Music For Your Video Project
If you’re getting into video production, you still have a few things to learn, even if you’ve already finished your first big project. After the week or month it took to write the script, the shooting, the editing, and posting online and networking on Myspace and Facebook to get some views, you may be surprised to see Youtube pull your video before the day’s through because you used some copyright protected music. This is what happens when you don’t use audio production music.
When you’re just starting out making your own video productions, a common beginner’s mistake is to ignore copyright issues when it comes to music. All those popular songs you love, they don’t come free. If you want to put Elvis Presley on the soundtrack, you’re going to have to pay their share holders. Youtube has gotten in enough trouble with music rights holders and they don’t want to risk it.
The good news is that it’s really easy and really cheap to get some really good music that you can use however you please. The internet is packed from end to end with talented musicians just looking to make ends meet with their craft, and many of them do this through library music. You can use this to your advantage and help a struggling artist out in the process.
There are many routes of distribution for these artists. Some will sell you a CD with a ton of music on it, with the price of the CD also including licensing fees. Others will charge a few bucks a song through their website or sell a downloadable album worth of music to you for the same price as the CD (minus shipping fees, of course).
The music is, of course, typically royalty-free, meaning that once you’ve bought the music, you never have to pay another dime to use it. This means that one CD of music might last you through a dozen video projects before you’ve used every single song, and you can keep reusing those songs as you please and distribute your videos however you like without ever paying another cent.
It’s cheaper than licensing some popular song that everyone’s heard a thousand times before, it’s cheaper than hiring a musician to compose something for you (and then paying them again and again to rewrite it until you’re happy with it), and you only have to pay once, where as royalty-paid music will have you paying again and again every time you use the music.
The only thing to consider: Is this music any good? Well, why not go to a website and find out? They typically offer samples so you can make sure you like the music before you pay for it.
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