Music to put on a cycling video...

yeachan153
yeachan153 Posts: 401
edited May 2013 in The cake stop
My friend has made a cycling video using his gopro, just some cool clips of our ride - and now the tricky part of putting some music on it... Anyone have any good (sensible) suggestions?

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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    What type of music are you interested putting on? I ask because I love dubstep, which most people hate.
    My London Road
  • big_p
    big_p Posts: 565
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA
  • FatTed
    FatTed Posts: 1,205
    Everybody Hurts (REM)
  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    big p wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA

    avoid this at all costs.


    What kind of tone do you want the video to have? What kind of clips are they?
  • option_click
    option_click Posts: 169
    Entirely depends upon what mood you want to convey, e.g. is it a gentle, sun soaked ride through rolling hills, or a dark, hellish, hilly suffer-fest!

    You should always have some music in mind before editing your footage. You can then edit in time with beats and cuts in the track. This always works much better than simply layering music on at the end.

    FWIW, I've used 'Some Velvet Morning' by Primal Scream, 'Cubicle' by Rinocerose and 'Getway' by The Music on a couple of my vids:
    Paris Roubaix
    London to Paris
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    I always think you can't go far wrong with reworking it in sepia tint, speeding it up and adding a Maple Leaf Rag soundtrack.
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  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    DesWeller wrote:
    I always think you can't go far wrong with reworking it in sepia tint, speeding it up and adding a Maple Leaf Rag soundtrack.

    :D I concur. Perhaps with a western bar brawl if you managed to catch any footage in the background.
  • AchillesLeftKnee
    AchillesLeftKnee Posts: 713
    Option Click wrote:
    Entirely depends upon what mood you want to convey, e.g. is it a gentle, sun soaked ride through rolling hills, or a dark, hellish, hilly suffer-fest!
    This, and ideally something you actually like, rather than something that merely seems appropriate.

    On that basis, had I had access to footage of my slower than intended (just had no go at all) post-work ride this evening, the perfect accompaniment would have been Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert, or possibly the stuff they played at Brezhnev's funeral.

    Edited to add...

    Having found some footage of said chap's funeral, it appears they wheeled out a few bits of rousing marshal music instead. Not appropriate, although having the rather dour sounding Russian commentator intoning a few solemn words to the effect of "sadly, he's on the small ring again" wouldn't go amiss.
    Mangeur
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    I'd go for the 'Benny Hill' theme.

    (Or 'Happy Cycling' by Boards of Canada)
  • lakesluddite
    lakesluddite Posts: 1,337
    This.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHUes0dGjUI

    To be fair, it's already a video with a cycling theme!

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