Copyright laws with itunes for video productions...

Question

i want to sell some dvds of some slideshow/movie productions i have produced. i want, at this time, to sell them as a fundraiser for my church but would like to continue making more productions for profit.
I use my own photos for these but have used music from itunes.
how does one buy a piece of music - compensate the artist/musician - and use it for one's own production?
thx
deb

Answer 1

Double-click your Hard Drive icon to open the window. Then double-click the Library icon inside. Do the same to the Audio icon and so on.
My details in the first answer I gave are the "shorthand" way of describing this process.
GarageBand has thousands of audio loops, some only a second long and others several seconds. If you can't use it to make a proper composition you can often string together or repeat several loops which will give you a musical atmosphere for the scene in the video.
Remember that you don't need to have music playing continuously in the background. This is generally a bad technique and was popular mainly in rather poor films made 50 or more years ago. It probably stemmed from the old silent movies that needed a continuous musical (usually piano) background to set the atmosphere of a film in the absence of sound.
Also, amateurs frequently use music at full volume. If you look at a professional Hollywood type film's credits you will see a list of songs etc. as long as your arm, yet you never noticed them. This is because they are often played at an extremely low level, often bordering on the inaudible, and yet it is sufficient to give viewers the subliminal musical message.
Message was edited by: Ian R. Brown