Music for your Camtasia Studio Screencast
Posted on Saturday April 26, 2008 by Betsy Weber
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A little background music goes a long way and can set the tone and personality of your screencast. It can also make your screencast feel polished and professional. I get several questions about where we get the music for some of our screencasts. So, I thought I'd do a music round-up to share some sources we've found.
One option is to create your own music. I've used Cinescore and ACID Pro from Sony Creative Software. If you don't feel like composing from scratch, you can get some samples, loops and themes from Sony to help you create your masterpiece.
Creative Commons is also a great source music which you can search here. You can also try ccMixter for music that is free to download, remix and sample.
We use royalty free music that we purchase from Digital Juice often. The nice thing about Digital Juice is that most of their tracks are stackable which means you can pull out individual audio elements. So, if you find a track you really like but dislike part of it, you can just remove it.
DigitalJuice has a 10 second, 15 second, 30 second, 1 minute and a 3 minute version of each song. Here's a quick screencast about how to get to the galleries to listen to their samples. It runs less than a minute long.
The Camtaisa Studio Product Manager, Troy Stein, has compiled a list of his favorite music clips from Digital Juice's Stack Traxx. Here are Troy's favorites (the number represents the Volume Number):
- 04 RiverFlow (upbeat, fun)
- 06 ComeAndPlay (upbeat, little techno)
- 15 Mystique (lighter, subtle)
- 15 KickItBack (moderately upbeat guitar)
- 06 LookInside (un pocito espanol)
- 12 Letter of Intent (blue suit feel)
- 32 EstaBien (fun latin groove)
- 03 Magic (playful orchestra music)
- 37 Westcoast Vamp -- (bit of Jazz)
- 13 RadioActive -- (more of a driving, rockish sound)
Chris McQueen in Training used royalty free music for the Jing videos from Kevin Macleod at Incompetech.
What music sources have you found?
