Background Music?

Soundbyteop wrote on 2/28/2013, 11:34 AM

Hello:
I primarily use Vegas studio to edit together customers old home movies. I am in need of generic background music. I see on the Sony site they have thousands of different titles. I only need a handful of songs in multiple styles to add to the production. So without breaking the bank, can anyone suggest a good place to start.

Thanks:
Rich

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Steve Grisetti wrote on 2/28/2013, 12:03 PM

The Movie Studio 12 Platinum Suite comes with several tracks of production music.

http://www.smartsound.com/sonicfire/ is probably the best source for royalty-free production music. The Quicktracks tool even lets you customize your music (more drums, less piano, for example) and set it to generate music at a specific length for your needs.

You can also find lots of royalty-free music at http://Muvipix.com

Tim L wrote on 2/28/2013, 12:04 PM

I'm not familiar with the Sony music library, though I would expect it to be excellent quality.

For really inexpensive music, I've been real happy with purchases I've made from www.footagefirm.com. They have a lot of music specials that they offer for $8.41 per disc. The quality of many of these discs is generally very good.

Here is a link that searches for "music" and sorts by "price", so that the cheap discs show up first.

http://www.footagefirm.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?dir=asc&mode=list&order=price&q=music&p=1

For home movies, search for "guitar" music, or maybe some of the "romantic" offerings. (But they also have lots of fast paced, upbeat music too.)

I really like this one: Guitar Bliss. Fitting for a lot of scenes.
http://www.footagefirm.com/free-acoustic-bliss-production-music.html

Nuevo Chic is pretty cool too, but maybe has limited use for most of us:
http://www.footagefirm.com/free-nuevo-chic-stock-music-2.html

c3hammer wrote on 2/28/2013, 12:34 PM

Try here -

http://vimeo.com/musicstore

I've found some decent free ones by going to the advanced search and digging around.

Cheers,
Pete

UKharrie wrote on 3/1/2013, 5:38 PM

I wonder that OP has checked his copy of Vegas Movie Studio? He should have found many examples of acceptable music tracks which are "Royalty Frre" (check with Sony on this).

However, with Sony being a World-class music publisher, it amazes me that many of these tracks are hardly useful for anything I consider to be "home-made Movies". Many have guitar-led band sounds, with drums battling for supremacy . . . although there are some very sweet tracks too . . . .I jsut wish I could get more of these and maybe send back the others.
. . . and if Sony Music reads this: pleaase no vocals.
Movie music that "we" can afford should support the action, not overwhelm it. In Hollywood the situation is different . . . skilled musicians follow the action and provide music to anticipate the action - or move it along.

I looked at the Music collections offered on Sony-Creative . . . but you have to be joking at those prices . . . .you could pay the cost of yr holiday over again, just to add some sparkle.

+++But there is another explanation . . . that OP hasn't found these Music tracks which come Free with Movie Studio......

vkmast wrote on 3/2/2013, 4:35 AM

Soundbyteop,
just in case you did not find the free stuff,
see this comparison table for free music in the latest versions of Movie Studio
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/moviestudioves/compare

If you have the download version, you'll have the download instructions for soundtracks/ production music in your SCS order confirmation email.
If you have the packaged version, see the Content folder on the application disc.

Soundbyteop wrote on 3/4/2013, 9:49 PM

Thanks:
I do have the free stuff from Sony, but I was looking to expand the library a bit. The Sony Creative discs are way too expensive for me. I will check out all of the options above. Thanks so much for the help.

Rich