subject: Background Music For Your Videos And Presentations [print this page] Music is often an overlooked part of a video presentation and in many successful presentations, the soundtrack is not even noticed. This isn't because the music is irrelevant or unnecessary, on the contrary, it's because a visual presentation combined with the right soundtrack forms an incredibly powerful synergy and comes together, to work as one. But how do you find the right soundtrack? Don't you have to pay record companies thousands of pounds for the right to use a piece of music? Well, maybe once you did, but not today! Thanks to the internet, we now have an abundance of places to find royalty free music and background music. Stock music websites such as www.stockaudio.net hold lots of music tracks in all types of styles and genres, which have been produced by many different musicians. You can buy a royalty free license to use one of their tracks from around $15. You can then use the music in your videos, presentations or on your website. The process is a very simple one these days - you simply visit the site, browse through the categories of music and listen to the demos, which are usually protected with an audible signal every few seconds. Then if you find one you feel suitable, you simply buy a license to use it. You receive a license and the actual high quality track as a high quality WAV file and MP3 file, which can be added to your videos or presentations. As more and more video content appears on the web, then there is more and more demand for quality music, and these stock music sites will, serve you well as they are also constantly updating their music catalogue. Beyond the familiar music genres, such as rock, hiphop and electronica, you'll also find many styles such as cinematic (suspense and drama) and corporate (clean, optimistic feel good music for motivating people). Stock music sites are an extremely economical way of finding high quality music for your presentations, and as many of the composers that write for these sites also work in video, they have a great understanding of what constitutes effective soundtracks.
