Re: Making How-To Videos on a small budget, please help

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 22:38:46 -0600
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> 5) Anyone know of a good source for royalty-free classical music,
> either freely downloadable, or a reasonable purchase cost on CD
> shipped? I am looking for a decent recording that won't end up
> sounding too cheesy. My wife particularly likes Vivaldi, and
> Pachelbel. I tried searching for this, but it's hard to find one that
> lets you listen to what's on the CD, or even see the list. I'm not
> really interested in midi files, as I'd have to re-constitute them,
> and I don't have the equipment to do that and have it sound decent.
>
Hi John...
I've done a couple of simple instructional tapes for my wife (she teaches
yoga) which she sells to her students.....I used a TRV-510 sony digital 8
camera. I've also got a pinnacle systems firewire card and Studio 8
(software) which is very easy to use especially for adding music...I got
some "Smartsound" files with it and you can order other discs from there
library....This is royalty free music which will automaticaly "fit" to
whatever length your segment of video is.....It re-sizes for your particular
need and it seamlessly interfaces with the editing program....there are a
good smattering of various styles of music that comes with Studio 8....I
ordered the "Expressive Textures" disc from Smartsound as well and got a lot
of nice classical/relaxing type pieces to use with my videos......We get
lots of favorable comments about the music and people don't realize how easy
it was to get it on the video.
Get the fastest computer you can afford and the biggest/fastest drives and
as much ram as you can too!
Len