royalty-free music loops, where can I get them? and swf's

[betsy wallace webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I am trying to buy some royalty-free music loops for director movies I am making, one (movie) to go on a CD that will be distributed for promotional purposes and another that will go on a website. Does anyone know a good source/ I have been surfing the net via google and yahoo. I found a couple sites,
one with classical, which is what I need, but not what they had (only 4 loops) after weeding through much that just won't help. Also, should I be looking for Mp3 or wav, to add to Director files?

PS. The movies that I save, (and I have read several manuals, but can't find this). all have a .dcr suffix after being published. Is there any way to change them to .swf so that I can use that plug-in to put them on a web page in GoLive?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

ecallawb

[Mark A. Boyd]

On 15 Dec 2003, "betsy wallace" [email]webforumsuser@macromedia.com[/email] wrote:

> I am trying to buy some royalty-free music loops for director movies I
> am making, one (movie) to go on a CD that will be distributed for
> promotional purposes and another that will go on a website. Does
> anyone know a good source/ I have been surfing the net via google and
> yahoo. I found a couple sites, one with classical, which is what I
> need, but not what they had (only 4 loops) after weeding through much
> that just won't help.

I've heard that flashkit.com or something like that has lots of loops.
Other than that, google is how I would look for them.

> Also, should I be looking for Mp3 or wav, to add
> to Director files?

If you expect that you'll never want to edit the files, MP3 is OK. However,
if you might edit them, I suggest a lossless compressed file, whatever its
format (WAV, AIFF, etc), but not MP3.

> PS. The movies that I save, (and I have read several manuals, but
> can't find this). all have a .dcr suffix after being published. Is
> there any way to change them to .swf so that I can use that plug-in to
> put them on a web page in GoLive?

No. Flash makes Shockwave Flash files. Director makes Shockwave Director
files. Neither will save files in the other's format.



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Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :)

[betsy wallace webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thank you for your input. I will try flashkit.com for royalty-free music for director movies-
Betsy

[SchneiderPapier webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

The website i most use is [url]http://www.sounddogs.com[/url] and indeed [url]http://www.flashkit.com[/url]. You said above you where gonna buy royaltee free music; i guess you dont have to pay if its royalty free ;-)

Director indeed makes Shockwave files and not .swf files. Good luck!