I just came across this pretty awesome website that I think could be really valuable to all you videomakers out there. It’s called Soundsnap.com. From their about us section:
Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD’s.
According to the popular social media blog, Mashable:
Soundsnap is an online resource that promises to share “pro-quality” sounds, samples and loops with the world of audio experimentalists and songsmiths without any cost to the end user. Yes, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicense-transferable and high-fidelity recordings are what the site is advertising, and having given it a good once-over, I’ve concluded that for those of you out there who like to dabble and like to assemble lots of little things into larger, interesting things, the site is a real pleasure to use.
Pretty awesome, yeah? I know I’ll be using their service - both to share my own samples and to download some to use in my videos.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
sounds pretty cool, thanks for the tip.
The Freesound project is also a great resource for video makers: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
April 10th, 2008 at 5:00 am
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April 10th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
And if you wind up with some money to buy sounds - you can check this site out. Pretty reasonable actually and sometimes have some rare gems you might need for a low budget film where you can’t afford professional foley.
http://www.sounddogs.com
April 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Thanks guys for the heads up! Feel free to pass along any other great resources you’ve found and I’ll be happy to share them with the community.
April 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
This will probably be an obvious one to the more experienced creators out there, but for those who have not yet heard of Creative Cow, it is an amazing resource for tutorials, forums on production and post production, articles on industry news, etc. I only post because I wish I had spent more time exploring their website early on . . .
http://www.creativecow.net
Enjoy!