A FEW WORDS ABOUT WEDDING VIDEO MUSIC

Wedding videos are all about emotions and feelings: love, happiness, romance, togetherness, friendship. If you’ve done your job well, you’ve managed to capture all these warm and fuzzy feelings in your images, but nothing drives emotion more effectively than the music. What better easier way to conjure up instant sentimental feelings of love and happiness than a familiar romantic tune like, say, “Love and Happiness” by Al Green? However, while Al Green, The Beatles, or Shania Twain may be the couple’s favorite artist, you cannot legally use any of this music in their wedding video. The second you add copyrighted music to a video, it’s called “syncing” (as in “syncing the sound with the picture”). And syncing ...

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