How to choose the RIGHT music for your video

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[mattih]

The Epidemic Sound promo ends Dec 11 so get on that while you can 🙌🏻 😊

[ElyPenner]

This is close to the process that I use. For me, finding music for my videos is the hardest thing to do. But once I have the right song, editing basically happens by itself. Great Video Matti!!

[jonlaidonlie]

forget personal genre preferences and think about what you want the audience to feel. value dropped!

[hypnosfpv]

I think that is a perfect way to word/approach it "Choose mood not genre". I also appreciated the Heavy Metal reference being a metalhead myself, and am quite guilty of trying to force my genre of preference on many occasions. Subconsciously I have been trying to use the "choose mood not genre" and it resonated with me the millisecond I heard those words. Great video, thank you.

[prasath]

Great Advice Matti. I think when we start our journey as editors, intuitively we go for a edit first and find song later approach without knowing why or how to do so. Eventually through Youtube, listening to tons of editors and trend culture you are swayed away from that into the "choose song and edit to the beats" school of thought (if you cant tell, Im talking about me haha). I have come to realize that couldn't be further from the truth. Although there is place for that style of editing, especially for short form videos or intentionally chosen scenes within a story, for long form story-telling you have to build the story first and use everything else as way to enhance or guide the emotion you're trying to elicit from the audience. Everything has to answer the question "WHY". Thank you Matti for re-affirming my learnings and being a great teacher!

[Oscar_Lagrosen]

Dude, it was perfect timing, as I’m deep into learning my own music gathering process in Epidemic Sounds! Thank you so much Matti!!

[kaptagn]

Love the nuggets dropped in this one, making selects based on the story being told is spot on.

[ModernLlama]

The timing of this video could not be more perfect! Love your videos man and thanks for the tips! 😁

[brandonnance]

Exactly, music can be so time consuming to select. Thank you for the "mood" selection tip. Very helpful and I think could apply to any music library.

[cabellofatto]

Super helpful. Always cool to see someone else’s process, especially in such an important but neglected area.

[garryschram]

Amazing shots, such a beautiful stunning place. I have been watching you guys for years and years. You two have been such a inspiration to my own photography and just makes me a better photographer by watching you guys. You’ve taught me so much about photography and cinematography. Thank you so much and never stop doing what you do! 😊

[marcoavaldez]

Perfect timing!! This has been on my mind lately. Thank you Matti!

[TheMadmacs]

my top tip is to listen to the general type of music while youre making the rough cuts, it especially helps when you don't have top notch clips, and even suggests a structure to vids that dont have any obvious structure.

[LeonardoAnchisi]

Thanks Matti for your precious advice!

[ELTExperiences]

Thank you for sharing your thought and creative process with regards to the adding of music to your videos - so invaluable. 😊

[CristianMercadoYT]

You literally gave me song recommendations. Now I want to edit a video with these songs!

[mediurs]

I use it too for years and it is fntastic!

[CheatingLeftyDiscGolf]

I’ve been using Epidemic Sound for over a year and it is completely worth it!!

[pickleslabs]

Dude. This was a great breakdown! Thank you so much! 😊

[OiLoikesParty]

Thank you so much for sharing your exact process.