Hi Seiko
Thank you for your comment and for watching some of our videos! I understand what you mean but I have a few problems with it. First of all, it goes against, our concept, where we want to give people the possibility for a full visual and auditive immersion in Japan and this whatever the circonstances. We want this project to be contemplative and help people to travel to Japan without moving. Actually if we could add "smell" to our video we would love to do it!
Now, we time to time use music on some of our video and we did it 4 times I believe and this to replace bad or none existing audio track (Timelapse and so on), the result is acceptable, but a very difficult exercise and this for the following reasons.
1. If you want great music you have to pay for it. We have 250 Videos (139 published) and plan to get 800 to 1000 more. I cannot spend 25 to 100 USD per tracks per videos (using again and again the track will be boring for people). Music licensing is a ***** and you need to get the proper rights on a global scale : NOT CHEAP
2. You have to match your content to the music in terms of atmosphere, length and what you see on the screen, which is extremely time consuming and will limit our creativity as well as the length of our videos
3. My/Our musical taste may be VERY different from yours and a track can completely destroy the atmosphere that your video is trying to create.
I have saw MANY gorgeous videos of Japan where I had to mute the audio because of the poor and cheap track...
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