Stock Music for Befuddled Bee

Using a combination of ToonBoom Studio 6, Audacity, iMovie,and GarageBand, Yootoon Studios created a fun animated short about a bee who has a moment of uncertainty as he steps out of his hive. To add to the fun and to create a matching soundtrack to highlight the story and give life to their animated character, the folks at Yootoon Studios utilized a stock music track from Productiontrax.com and incorporated it into the one-minute film’s soundtrack.

Baxter Bee – Befuddled Bee uses a piece called The Cue, with music composed, arranged & produced by Thomas Bukket, licensed for commercial use – track ID 5143. It’s a jolly, light-hearted, dixieland piece that is perfect for children’s projects and animated shorts like this one.

Yootoon Studios is cartoon creator Butch Hartman’s new animation channel, with new episodes on YouTube every Wednesday at 12PM. You can even submit your own stuff.

Royalty Free Music for Book Trailers

When Laura Elliot, an author of young adult and middle grade fiction, needed royalty free music for the trailers for her latest novels, she turned to Productiontrax.com for her stock media, helping her to promote her books online.

For her first trailer, she featured her book Winnemucca, a small-town fairy tale, about a seventeen-year old girl who solves the riddle of her past on an enchanted road trip where fear’s as blind as love, using Mariachi Music Soundtrack from Productiontrax.

For 13 on Halloween, book 1 in the coming-of-age fantasy series explores popularity and what it means to have it all, she turned to royalty free music from Productiontrax to complete her soundtrack.

Elliot’s upcoming release: “I’m currently in production on a third book trailer for my latest release Transfer Student, a freaky-Friday young-adult scifi romance adventure about a Beverly Hills surfer girl who swaps lives with a boy geek alien when his teleporting telescope experiment goes bad. They swap lives and learn about their dreams by surviving their nightmares.”

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Stock Music from Productiontrax for Taekwan-Do School Video

We love it when our clients share their projects with us. In this case, Ethron Productions used a royalty free stock music track from Productiontrax.com to accompany their recent video produced for a local Taekwan-Do school. “I am very happy with the result, the music sets the entire epic tone of the video,” said producer Ethron T Young III. The music featured is by contributor Mattias Puumala, who provides stock music compositions on Productiontrax in a wide variety of styles and genres. Check out the trailer:

Christmas carols make easy royalty free music projects

Need some inspiration for your next round of production music tracks for Productiontrax? With so many Christmas carols in the public domain, it’s no secret that Christmas music is one of the most popular royalty free music genres out there.

However, that doesn’t mean we have too much. Companies and media producers around the world are constantly looking for fresh takes on the old classics. Afterall, Christmas happens once a year, every year. As one of the biggest holidays (ever), it makes sense that demand is so high. Clients are creating electronic greeting cards, holiday videos, goofy office party presentations, and so on. A new royalty free holiday track is a useful one, and probably one that sells.

So, my friends, take another sip of egg nog, light the yule log, and crank up the volume to 11 and prepare to Deck the Halls like no music artist has decked them before.

Just remember: just because it’s a Christmas song, doesn’t mean it’s fair game. Be sure to check that the song you’re planning to reinvigorate is actually public domain. To help you out, here are some public domain classics that are ripe and ready, and some not-so-public domain songs that are off limits.

Public Domain (OK to use):
Deck The Halls
Jingle Bells
Silent Night
Joy To The World
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Away In A Manger

Not OK To Use:
White Christmas
Silver Bells
Frosty The Snowman
Little Drummer Boy
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
Jingle Bell Rock