Earlier this week we announced the grand opening of our new and improved online forums. And it’s a long time coming. As we were preparing press releases and emails to announce this overhaul the working title in my head was “Our forums don’t suck anymore!”. In fact they’re way cool now. Check out this video [...]

     Many of our readers and customers on MusicRevolution.com (www.musicrevolution.com) are video producers. This isn’t surprising since video is naked without sound or music. Video producers usually need music to complete their video or multimedia productions.      I recently came across Best Vendor (www.bestvendor.com ). Best Vendor is a resource for finding the best work [...]

The 2003 Pixar film Finding Nemo illustrates a rarely used directorial technique wherein the soundtrack, composed by Thomas Newman, intentionally drowns out dialog between characters that would normally be too important to miss. Near the end of the film, there’s an emotional scene where Nemo hears stories about the brave acts his father is doing [...]

This post was provided by our friends at Daddy Van Productions, a concert video production. From working with massive bands that have attained international stardom like Maroon 5 and Disturbed, to working with classic hair metal groups on a reboot like Motley Crue and Aerosmith, Daddy Van artist Charlie Terrell has carved out a niche [...]

After some of these recent requests, we specifically tagged a select group of tracks that we think will work well for many sizzle reels.

It’s generally known that, within certain limitations, copyrighted material can be used without obtaining permission from the rights holder if the usage is educational nature.

So what are those limitations?

here’s a quick summary of the major differences between’s Apple’s new Final Cut X ($300), which will be replacing the traditional Final Cut software series (now at version 7 for $1,000)

We love doing scavenger hunts for ideas and content that help media producers make cooler videos. Today we found this very effective approach to featuring a corporate executive

1 year ago this month my good friend Chris Cardell and I launched a dream that is this very website upon which you gaze, oh reader. www.musicrevolution.com was our chance to make the kind of website that was too innovative, too fancy and too forward-focused to be created quickly by the kind of big stock [...]

The song featured in this movie trailer for the soon-to-be-released Madea’s Big Happy Family is fantastic: It’s  “M.A to the D.E.A” by FS (featuring Northern League). It’s available on iTunes. From what I can see it was commissioned specifically for this movie trailer so the artist is probably independent and maybe even located in Atlanta. [...]