Free music for videos

I'm in the process of editing some home videos and decided to check out what free music I could find. There is some pretty good free music at the Free Music Archive. I especially like the jazz and hip-hop. Well done! :).

Floss for MacOS X

In trying to be a progressive cross platform developer, I've been playing with OS X quite a bit. One of the nice apps that you get on OS X is iMovie and I thought I would quickly cut together some video I took of a friend's wedding reception. Unfortunately, QuickTime balked at opening it (and if QuickTime says no, iMovie says no).

Looking around I found DivX for Mac and 3vix mpeg4 trial. Both seemed to want to get me to upgrade to some pro version or bundled features to cross sell me apps. Suffice to say, I really don't like cruft on any of my machines so I continued my search. Luckily some enterprising individuals created Perian. It uses ffmeg's AV codec library and makes QuickTime player a bit more useful. Unfortunately although I could now view the videos on the mac, iMovie is still giving me beans and refuses to import the videos.

Looks like I'd have to convert the videos. The closest thing I found was ffmpegX. It's shareware, but it has a nice interface.