bry_man wrote:personally I think this can make or break a "movie"
how do you find yours?
I have a hard drive (and backups, of course) of about 9,000 pieces of music, many of those downloaded from a subscription to a stock footage site, and of course all of the Muvipix music downloads.
I make a playlist in Windows Media Player of a random sampling if those sound clips and listen to as much of each as needed until I decide "yes" or "no." Sometimes I hear something that is not right for the current project, but take notes for future projects.
I have some of the music sorted in categories, but the ones I downloaded from the stock media were downloaded in a hurry since I had a limited time (one year) to download them (and a bunch of video clips, too) and my download speed on DSL is only about 5-6 Mbps. I hope to one day have time to sort them all.
and do you find that once you find a piece of music that what you wanted, do you then find the "movie" changes a little bit coz you want to change picture/clip/transition etc to the rhythm of the music
Absolutely. I usually pick the music first and then edit the video as close as I can to the music. I sometimes will have the music at the beginning of the clip on the timeline and edit or cut the music clip to create the ending portion of the music for the end of the timeline.
I then edit the video and add edited music in the middle as needed.