Episode 96
FCG096 - The New Premium Beat (feat. Danny Greer)
When you take a good look at the new website that Premium Beat just recently released its pretty obvious that they are very much into supporting the film making community. Besides including powerful new web based features that cater specifically to editors there is the amazingly deep blog content covering all manners of involvement with the production community. This episode is MUCH more then just an add, there is genuine discovery going on here and I promise you there will be things that make you want to go and take another look at premiumbeat.com
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Featuring
- Chris Fenwick
- Danny Greer - @premiumbeat
Transcription
00:00.320: Hey, good morning, and welcome to another episode of Final Cut Grill.
00:03.840: This is episode 096 with Danny Greer.
00:07.360: Now, you probably don't know who Danny Greer is, but Danny is
00:13.019: One of the dudes over there at our good friend Premium Beat.
00:16.860: And I will say to you flat out, today is almost like a commercial.
00:22.460: It's not, though.
00:24.560: As you know, about a week and a half ago, Premium Beat released their new website.
00:30.160: And I've mentioned it on a couple of past episodes.
00:33.820: And it's cool because it offers a whole lot of functionality and stuff that is designed for editors.
00:41.900: Okay.
00:43.100: There's new features, there's new keyboard shortcuts.
00:47.120: It's something that I really wanted to talk about in detail.
00:51.920: Yes, they are sponsors of the show.
00:54.399: So effectively.
00:56.540: This is almost, you know, a paid hour.
00:59.820: But trust me, I'm not going to do that to you.
01:02.300: I'm not going to make it stupid.
01:04.479: This is good content.
01:06.000: And I will say that I learned some really cool features of the site by going through it with Danny, you know, one-on-one.
01:15.140: There's a blog post on the site, and that's one of the features we talk about: the blog.
01:20.580: There's a blog post on the site where Danny goes through some of the stuff.
01:23.140: But there were some things like as he was going, I stumbled across stuff.
01:26.260: I'm like, oh, oh, oh, hold on here.
01:29.040: So I promise you, this is interesting content.
01:32.640: I'm not going to waste your time.
01:34.400: That's not what I want to do.
01:37.320: But in full disclosure, yes, of course, they sponsor the show.
01:41.640: They appreciate our show, and I totally appreciate Premium Beats.
01:45.960: So I'm not going to go any more commercial.
01:48.140: At this point, you know how I feel about Premium Beat.
01:51.500: So let's go to the interview now with Danny Greer down there in Texas.
01:57.440: Hello, hello.
01:58.560: Hello, hello.
01:59.440: Hey, Danny, how are you doing?
02:00.960: Good morning, or good morning, good evening, whatever time it is.
02:03.520: Anytime people, welcome to the show.
02:05.840: Thank you, Chris.
02:06.720: Good evening to you.
02:07.439: How are you doing?
02:08.959: Doing great.
02:09.679: Hey, so first of all, it's it I'm totally stoked to have you guys on here.
02:14.720: And if anybody thinks that this is just a commercial, it is not.
02:20.680: You guys have been sponsoring the show for quite some time, and I'm genuinely excited about that, of course.
02:26.840: But I've been looking forward to this new website, and that's what we're going to talk about that.
02:32.540: to a certain degree t uh tonight, but um plenty of other stuff.
02:39.420: How's the music business?
02:41.020: The music business is good.
02:42.700: We actually just put the new site online about a week and a half ago.
02:46.459: And when I saw you, and I know we've been talking about this for months, when I saw you.
02:50.160: When I went to we went to lunch at NAB earlier this year, and we were talking about it then.
02:54.320: We've been planning this for months and months and months.
02:56.560: So it's now the beginning of November, and it's online, and we couldn't be happier.
03:00.400: It's been
03:01.160: We've spent a lot of time working on it.
03:03.400: Oh, I know it must be hard because you were you guys were excited about it even at NAB.
03:08.200: It's now middle of November
03:10.799: And I've been talking about it because I had emailed you a few months ago.
03:15.200: Oh, yeah, it's pretty clear, a few weeks.
03:16.959: And so obviously, it's hard, hard work to get the whole thing done.
03:20.720: But I think what I want to talk about tonight is
03:25.220: just some of the things that you've changed and added to the site.
03:29.620: But I think even before that, I want to talk about Premium Beat
03:34.320: how it got started.
03:35.520: I know that Francoine, his father, started it, I think.
03:39.120: Tell me a little bit of the history of the business.
03:41.120: Yeah, you bet.
03:42.080: About nine years ago, our founder, Francois, he started Premium Beat.
03:46.640: At the time, he worked for
03:47.960: a major advertising agency, and the main pain point was he couldn't find the right music, good music, for his project.
03:54.680: So Premium Beat was born out of that.
03:57.320: And that was
03:58.440: Nine years ago, and in the beginning, it was a lot of local composers around the Montreal area.
04:04.280: And that's where our headquarters is in Montreal.
04:06.900: At the start, we picked up a lot of local veteran production music composers around that area, and since that then it's just grown and grown and grown.
04:15.160: And now we've got composers all over the world, and UK, US, France, Germany, and we've just kind of evolved into what it is today.
04:23.080: But it's been around for nine years.
04:25.039: Yeah, now in a lot of library things, like if you look at some, and I'm not talking about just music, but you know, other things, but if you look at stuff like, you know,
04:32.840: iStock photo, iStock music also, some of the like Pond5.
04:40.360: Pretty much anybody can can like log on.
04:42.840: I mean, I could get myself a Pond5 account
04:45.600: in you know in probably ten minutes and I could be a Pond5 contributor.
04:50.960: But you guys don't it's not just like a wide open Wild Wild West there, right?
04:57.360: You're
04:58.039: Picking and choosing, right?
04:59.879: That's exactly right, Chris.
05:01.159: Yeah, I mean, really, I think that's what that this is really like our bread and butter is exclusivity.
05:08.039: And handpicking tracks and curating our library.
05:11.560: That is really what we're all about.
05:13.560: So we have people all the time, every day, new composers that
05:18.340: submit tracks to us.
05:19.620: And of those new submissions.
05:21.620: Please sell my stuff.
05:23.060: Please sell all my stuff.
05:24.420: And it's we love getting those new submissions.
05:26.260: We get them all the time.
05:27.820: Of the people that submit to us, we accept less than probably 1% into our library.
05:33.020: So that really keeps us, it really keeps the quality high.
05:36.460: I mean, we it's really important for us.
05:39.980: for we have all been in kind of creative industries, and I have a video editing background.
05:45.820: Some of the people that work with us are
05:48.380: from agency backgrounds.
05:50.139: And the pain point has always been with any kind of stock media, the pain point is going, sifting through hours and hours and hours
05:58.060: Of like subpar content.
05:59.900: So subpar music, subpar photos, whatever it might be.
06:02.940: So with Premium Beat, that has been really the most important thing to us is to go through and make sure that all the music that we have
06:09.440: is exclusive to our site and is all really, really high quality.
06:13.200: Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I've sat with a producer who, you know, they're in the back of the room, they're on their laptop, and they're like, oh, hate it, hate it, hate it.
06:22.000: And I'll go.
06:23.340: And I'm like, you know, I really need something to cut to now.
06:26.780: And so I've opened up Premium Beat.
06:29.580: I've gone to like my personal faves or favorites.
06:33.520: And because that's one of the things that I do as an editor, is I'll I just create my own collections of like, oh, I like this, you know, I'd love to cut something to this.
06:45.139: And I'll say, hey, how about this?
06:46.580: And they'll go, oh, that's great.
06:49.380: Where'd you get that?
06:50.180: I go, premiumbeat.
06:51.540: com.
06:51.860: It's awesome.
06:52.660: And so
06:53.840: And literally, it's been like in a matter of minutes, as opposed to like, I've seen people go on music searches that last them two days
07:01.820: Sure.
07:02.220: Yeah, like I said, I was a video editor.
07:04.220: And before I ever worked for Premium Beat, I was actually a customer of Premium Beat.
07:08.780: So that's how I became familiar with the site and the service.
07:11.840: And that was always a pain point for me using other services, going through and spending hours and hours and doing it.
07:17.520: It's one thing to do it by yourself, and it can be hard and laborious when you're in a bad library going forever, but it's even worse when you have like a client sitting next to you.
07:25.539: And then they're chiming in, and you're trying to find the right track, and you go back and forth and back and forth.
07:29.460: And it's just, like you said, you can spin your wheels for like days.
07:32.500: It's the worst experience.
07:34.099: You don't have who has time for that?
07:36.340: In this business, things move fast and
07:38.560: For us, it's we we never want to be you know, some of the other marketplaces that you mentioned, I mean, they're they offer so much content.
07:46.479: And we've never one thing
07:48.880: We've really kind of prided ourselves on is not being the biggest music library out there.
07:53.919: That was never the goal.
07:54.960: We just really want to be
07:56.620: Have the highest quality products, like the highest quality music.
07:59.740: And by hand-picking tracks, we want to make it easy for
08:04.440: video editors and video producers to go in there and like quickly find what they need.
08:08.040: And it shouldn't have to be like a two-day job to go in there and just find a good track.
08:12.360: No, it should not.
08:13.800: Okay, so um
08:15.800: How do you go about finding some of the composers that you have?
08:21.639: Sure.
08:22.360: Like I said, we have submissions all the time.
08:24.360: And so that's one route.
08:26.040: People just over the years, we've kind of
08:29.320: As we build up our composer kind of our composer roster, a lot of times our composers will spread the word to their composer friends and say, hey, check these guys out.
08:38.520: I'm writing stuff for them.
08:40.339: And so that's one way we have just kind of blind submissions, people sending stuff in.
08:44.819: And then also we kind of scout out artists.
08:48.180: So if we have a licensing team, and if they hear someone that sounds
08:53.320: interesting or unique, or they think that there's a spot for them in our library, then they'll reach out to that particular artist and we kind of work it like that as well.
09:00.600: So it's really from all different you know, all different avenues.
09:04.520: But we just were constantly on the hunt for kind of like new sounds.
09:09.160: I mean, music's changing all the time too, right?
09:11.000: Like popular music.
09:12.120: So it's important for us to the library to evolve.
09:15.440: Always are adding new stuff and adding new tracks and adding new composers to kind of keep up with the demand of like whatever's in season, you know, in style and popular music as well.
09:25.760: So, yeah, I don't know.
09:27.940: You know, you pro you could probably speak to this more, but I don't know if that is unique, that you're actually seeking people out.
09:35.860: I think that's an interesting facet of it because
09:39.600: you know, you guys do know what people are looking for.
09:43.680: I would imagine, and I'm not I don't want to give away any trade secrets, but I would imagine that
09:49.520: that you could harvest the search criteria off the website and go, oh, we need more dubstep or something like that.
09:56.400: Sure.
09:56.720: Yeah, dubstep's actually one that's popped up in the last couple of years that we've added in the last couple of years, we've added
10:03.040: quite a few dubstep tracks.
10:04.320: You know, like she said, it gets popular and we can kind of tell we can tell from search and things like that.
10:08.800: Right.
10:09.200: But also it's just it's just watch you know, we watch a lot of films.
10:12.560: We love we you know, we come like I said, there's
10:14.900: Some of us have advertising backgrounds and we watch what's being chosen for commercials, what's being chosen for films.
10:22.180: And we're all music lovers too.
10:24.860: you know at what's what's popular and kind of kind of popular music commercial music so that's another meter that we can kind of look at and decide what we want to put on the site must be interesting conversations around the lunchroom
10:37.120: Yeah, definitely.
10:37.920: Yeah, for sure.
10:38.560: And everybody like I said, there's several musicians on staff, too, that have are classically trained musicians.
10:44.000: We have like an indie artist on staff and our licensing team that did some independent rock.
10:48.959: For a couple years.
10:49.839: And so everybody kind of has this love for music, anyways.
10:53.680: And so we're always just trying to come up with whatever, like the next, you know, the next thing that our customers will want.
10:59.839: In the next sound, that's going to be kind of in fashion.
11:02.880: And so that's we're always adding stuff to the library.
11:05.360: Well, you just mentioned licensing, and I think that that's an important thing to discuss because I know that recently a
11:12.820: oh, probably a week or two ago, because I'm always talking about premium beat, I had somebody tweet me something about they were trying to find out if they purchase a song from you
11:24.960: They're trying to find out some particulars insofar as like, does that mean they can use it on multiple projects?
11:32.640: Should they purchase it for the next project that they use?
11:37.540: Why don't you talk about because I know that you have multiple levels of licensing.
11:41.620: Do you want to step through those?
11:43.220: Sure, yeah, you bet.
11:45.240: Our standard license is kind of the base, and it covers a wide variety of usage.
11:50.840: I would say the majority of usage.
11:52.280: It's the cheapest license.
11:54.200: One thing, too, with our site is that all the tracks on the site
11:57.040: All the licenses are the same price for every track.
11:59.279: So we try to keep it really simple.
12:00.720: Yeah, that does make it easier.
12:02.080: You know, you don't you kind of know every single if you're going to buy a standard license for a track, it's always the same price no matter what track it is.
12:08.480: So our standard
12:09.800: License actually covers usage in an unlimited number of projects.
12:14.680: Speaker 3: Wow.
12:15.320: Yeah, so that's really great.
12:16.520: I mean, that's one thing I think that.
12:18.579: kind of different about our site is that we're not for the standard license, I guess I'll just throw that out there.
12:23.699: It covers like YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, anything web-based.
12:27.959: Corporate videos, slideshows for photographers, that kind of thing.
12:32.760: And you could use, if you license a track with a standard license, you could use it in a hundred.
12:38.240: YouTube videos, you know, a thousand YouTube videos.
12:40.880: It doesn't matter.
12:41.840: So that's actually, I think, like one unique aspect of our licensing.
12:47.279: And then I'm also noticing here that on like if you were putting it into like IOS apps and things like that, if it's a free app, it's okay for something like that as well.
12:58.320: Yeah.
12:58.940: Exactly.
12:59.660: Yeah.
13:00.140: The standard license covers free apps.
13:02.380: We have a different license for revenue generating.
13:05.580: Yeah, I just got to say, I read that and I was like, oh, yeah, apps have music sometimes.
13:10.300: Boy, never thought of that.
13:12.440: Yeah, I have a son and he's four.
13:15.320: And the other day he was playing some racing game on the iPad, and I was like, I thought he was on the Premium Beat site.
13:20.600: Like they had used one of our loop sets as the background.
13:24.640: In like the opening of, you know, I guess the opening of the game or whatever.
13:27.440: And I yeah, it's great to hear sometimes, you know, hear pick up tracks like on commercials or whatever.
13:32.720: But I heard it on the app the other day.
13:34.000: So we do sell.
13:36.240: Quite a bit of licenses for apps and games and that kind of thing.
13:40.240: Okay, so that's the standard and then standard license.
13:43.280: So that's the majority of what folks need is the standard.
13:47.520: We also have
13:48.560: a television and radio show license, if it's for broadcast T V background like the background music in a T V show, that's a license.
13:55.920: We have a license for T V advertising.
13:58.080: We have one for film and then we have one
14:01.020: For mass duplication, if you're going to make 10,000 DVD copies of something, you would require that license.
14:08.460: But oh, we have five licenses.
14:10.060: And it's
14:10.500: It's super clear cut.
14:12.020: One thing about the site is that everything's automated on the site.
14:16.180: So we try to make it really as simple as possible for folks.
14:20.260: I mean
14:20.839: Like we just talked about, you know, the production business moves fast, and you don't have, you don't, most people don't have time to go back and forth and send an email and say, How much is this license?
14:30.519: How much is that?
14:31.000: And going back and forth.
14:31.880: We try to cut, we've cut all that out.
14:34.060: There's five licenses, like all the prices are online.
14:36.940: You pick the license you need, you check out, you get the music, straight down, you know, straight download, instant download, and then you're on your way.
14:43.920: Okay, now there's a few things that I'm going to specifically ask you about just out of curiosity, because as you know, I use your stuff all the time.
14:51.920: What percent and I don't know, maybe you don't want to talk about this, but like
14:55.940: So what percentage of people like buy the whole the whole package?
15:01.300: And by hit package I mean there's the song
15:03.860: Then there's the loop set.
15:04.820: And I talk about all the time about how you really want to listen carefully to the shorts because sometimes they have like a slightly different open or close.
15:13.860: But like what kind of people or
15:16.820: Do a lot of people buy like all three packages?
15:20.340: You know, they do actually.
15:21.860: And I think the history with the loop set is when that was when the site was started, you know, nine years ago, that's when Flash websites were
15:31.020: Still in vogue, and every time you'd hit a flash site, it would always have music in the background when you hit the site.
15:38.140: That was kind of the thing 10 years ago or so.
15:41.459: As like you said, the iPhone has killed Flash and Flash is kind of on its way out.
15:45.940: But what we've noticed then in like the last couple of years is that people will buy all the formats to give them more options
15:52.259: when they get into post and they start cutting stuff together.
15:54.740: So those loop sets, you know, every for every track on the site has some corresponding loop sets which are
16:01.240: Five to ten second long kind of variations of the track, and they can loop seamlessly onto themselves.
16:07.800: So apps and games use that.
16:09.080: Like I said, Flash sites used to use that.
16:11.000: We're finding that video editors actually
16:13.440: Are you using that?
16:14.160: Oh, I use them all the time.
16:15.520: Yeah, and cutting it together with the full track, and they can really make something that's, you know, they can really make the track their own.
16:22.279: Easily change the length of the track.
16:24.760: And that's kind of, it gives, I think it gives editors just more versatility in post.
16:29.399: And so that's one thing that
16:31.440: I think kind of separates Premium Beauty as well, is that we do offer all three formats.
16:35.920: So the exact breakdown, I'm not totally sure, but I can tell you that we do
16:41.500: So the three formats in one purchase all the time.
16:45.500: I use the loops a lot, and I've had some great experiences sitting with producers over my shoulder and they what's really cool
16:54.920: is they get it right away.
16:57.000: And they're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:58.519: So that sort of downbeat section, let's hold that until he says, and then what you know, we're kind of like pushing the Legos around.
17:05.839: That's awesome to hear.
17:06.880: Oh, it's really you know, they get it and they see the power in it because it's you know, it's not quite composing, but you have a lot of control over the
17:18.220: the emotional push of the song and how it and how it evolves over time in your piece.
17:26.160: That's awesome to hear.
17:27.120: That's what we hope.
17:27.839: That's you know, and that's we've I've gotten some feedback from customers.
17:31.360: We're always like asking people how they use the music and
17:34.660: And we're always curious about how we can do better.
17:36.980: And we've gotten great feedback from folks, you know, like you, when we had lunch at NAB, and you kind of gave us feedback about what you like about the site.
17:42.900: And that kind of info is so useful to us.
17:45.860: So we have heard from folks
17:47.260: that have said similar things on about the loops and and the shorts.
17:50.780: The shorts are for I guess I should throw that out there too for anyone that's never seen been on the site before, but the shorts come in 15, 30 and 60 seconds.
17:58.780: Okay, if anybody listens to this podcast,
18:01.860: and they haven't at least gone to look at the site, then I'm really not doing my job.
18:06.340: I appreciate it.
18:06.899: We appreciate it a lot.
18:08.659: But yeah, they're 15, 30, and 60 seconds.
18:11.700: So
18:12.340: Those shorts are just like drop ins if you're doing ads.
18:15.539: They're really super useful for broadcast spots or radio spots that have like the set times like that.
18:21.519: Yeah, and not only and like I mentioned, if you listen to the shorts, they're gonna quite often they're gonna begin and end different than the full cut.
18:30.519: So, it gives you some options.
18:32.679: You know, sometimes you want a little trail out.
18:35.159: Sometimes you need a harder sting that you might find in one of the shorts.
18:40.200: Yeah, definitely.
18:41.159: When I used to edit, people
18:43.500: It's funny when you work with producers sometimes and they're not editors, and a lot of times they don't understand, they don't understand production using.
18:50.299: They'll say, Oh, can we change the ending there?
18:52.539: And most of the time, in the past, I'm like, Well, no, this is the track.
18:56.040: You're right.
18:57.000: With the different formats, you can actually say like, yes, you're I can and we have a couple options, maybe.
19:03.640: Yeah, it's like magic.
19:04.600: But no, it's
19:05.540: I think that's great to hear.
19:07.300: I'm really glad that you've used them like that.
19:09.380: And we certainly encourage people to cut the track to whatever link they need and use all the formats to really personalize it.
19:17.640: Yeah, I mean, I I've always enjoyed cutting music and I I have a little bit of a music background my myself, just been involved with musicians my whole life.
19:27.240: I've always enjoyed cutting music.
19:29.080: And I gotta say, the loops just make it easier.
19:33.160: You know, you can.
19:35.280: It's really interesting to like look at him.
19:37.680: Okay, I'm gonna hold this till about here, and then we'll we'll loop this one a couple times and
19:42.340: And frankly, I like I always say, it is music that doesn't that doesn't fight m my focal point, you know?
19:51.299: So very good.
19:52.660: So let's talk about the new
19:54.240: the new site then you got it what are some things uh what are some what are some new things you want to mention sure um let's see
20:02.620: One thing, the site is totally mobile friendly.
20:05.980: So that's great if you're on an iPad or an iPhone or whatever.
20:13.019: We have basically the site is responsive.
20:14.940: It shows up on whatever device you're on.
20:16.860: It's optimized for that device.
20:18.380: So that was kind of a big kind of
20:21.440: big switch from what we had before.
20:23.120: Okay, so I'm going to hold on a second.
20:24.880: I'm going to clarify something here.
20:26.320: You threw down some big time web words there.
20:29.120: Okay, gotcha.
20:30.880: In the web world, responsive design, it means that it is
20:36.220: designed in a framework that is constantly looking at the resolution of the device and it will change the way it
20:46.960: Displays.
20:47.600: Now, in olden times, people used to actually just design multiple sites, but a responsive site will actually, if you scale this, and I had not noticed this, but now I see it.
20:59.440: So if I take the Premium Beat website and I just start to make it narrower, you'll see a point at about I don't know how many pixels it is.
21:08.919: where you'll get um what sometimes web developers refer to as the hamburger button.
21:14.200: Exactly.
21:14.840: And the hamburger button is over next to the little icon of the man, which is probably the user profile.
21:19.960: The hamburger button, when you click on that, you'll get
21:23.540: a pop-down menu thing.
21:25.060: And basically, everything is designed around the the limitations of the human finger because you can't make buttons too small or they don't work.
21:32.100: So I had not noticed that it was responsive.
21:35.380: And when you're like if you're into if you're trying to make a website or whatever, certainly in the last like three years or so, the thing to look for is responsive.
21:46.260: like let's say you're doing like a WordPress theme or something like that.
21:50.100: If you're searching for WordPress themes, make sure you look for ones that are that use the word responsive in the description.
21:57.340: And those are ones that will scale for your IOS's and other gizmos and stuff.
22:03.260: You nailed it.
22:04.059: Yep, exactly.
22:05.179: So that's
22:06.660: We're all about education here on the what else is new?
22:12.980: So that's one thing.
22:14.419: There's a bunch of new things, actually.
22:16.179: We have a new player.
22:18.460: We're on the site in the past.
22:19.580: We had a pop-up player every time you'd play a song.
22:22.220: Everybody hated the pop-up player.
22:23.980: Sorry.
22:24.780: No, it's it's we got feedback all the time.
22:27.580: And I we as users, you know, we we look at the way
22:32.040: People use the site and the way people license music, and the workflow people go through when they license music.
22:36.520: And what we tried to add to the new site were kind of power features that for specifically for like video editors.
22:43.560: And so
22:44.940: I'll get to one of the one of my favorites in just a sec.
22:47.820: But one thing is the new player, and it stays in the same browser window and it pops up and it's a lot cleaner and nicer.
22:54.140: So that's new.
22:55.820: So, there's a lot of visual enhancement on the site, for sure, but we've also added some really cool functionality.
23:03.220: One thing I was mentioning as four video editors is we actually have the new site is like accessible with keyboard shortcuts.
23:11.660: So if you're browsing music, we've actually kind of fixed it up so that you can use like the arrow keys to advance to the next song.
23:19.020: If you're playing a song, you can hit the right arrow and it'll jump.
23:21.940: A couple seconds, you can basically like skip through the track.
23:25.299: Oh, very cool.
23:26.419: So that's, you know, video editors are like super used to using shortcuts, or they should be.
23:30.780: So that's one thing that we added in the site.
23:33.180: Dude, I did not even know you could do that in a web-based player.
23:35.900: That's very slick.
23:39.760: Advancing through the songs.
23:41.360: You know, when you're listening to a track, sometimes I love the fact that you have the letter C advanced to checkout.
23:48.960: Yeah, we hope, we hope people push the letter C.
23:52.160: But no, this, you know, what.
23:53.660: What I would always do sometimes when I I'd listen, you know, sometimes I would be playing through the the time I'd have my time line open as a video editor, I'd have my timeline open on on one monitor, say, and I'd, you know, have a
24:04.760: The audio and the a music site or something on the next on the next window, and I'm kind of comparing the music to the picture and kind of seeing how things cut together and flow.
24:12.360: And like now, you don't even have to look at
24:15.120: You know, you don't even have to look at the screen.
24:16.640: You can just close your eyes and listen to the tracks, or you can try to pair it up with the visuals.
24:21.840: And I think using the shortcuts is super cool.
24:24.480: Like, that's one of my personal favorite.
24:27.040: new features on the site.
24:28.160: Yeah.
24:28.480: I mean like fa you can add to your favorites, you can add to your carts.
24:34.000: You can go to check out.
24:36.340: Skipping forward.
24:37.220: Very cool.
24:37.700: Very cool.
24:38.500: So that's one another kind of feature that was long requested, and something we've been really, really excited to put on the site.
24:46.740: It was a long time coming, was adding to playlists.
24:49.380: So, you know, if just like light boxes, I think you mentioned in a previous show that I listened to recently, you said you were mentioning the playlist feature, and I think it's useful for
25:00.280: Several reasons.
25:01.000: I mean, a lot of times editors are working on multiple projects at the same time.
25:05.160: So playlists offer you the ability to
25:08.280: You can say, okay, I'm going to create a playlist for this Christmas video, and I'm going to create a playlist for this broadcast spot that I'm doing.
25:14.520: I'm going to create a
25:15.080: Playlist for this non-profit video in
25:17.540: Concurrently, you can be adding tracks to each playlist.
25:20.420: Well, not only that, you could actually, you know, like I've said multiple times, I just mentioned a while ago that I have
25:27.300: my own favorites that I just collect.
25:30.180: And there's no reason why I can't collect, you know, a ho make a high energy collection.
25:36.280: or a, you know, contemplative or, you know, some a mellow collection.
25:41.240: And again, they can just be my like my own
25:44.580: cuts that will save you know, that I can search for when I have spare time to save me time when I'm in a pinch.
25:52.980: I love it.
25:53.940: Yeah, for sure.
25:54.900: And I think that's, we've actually had people say, oh, yeah, we just, I just like listening to the site sometimes when I'm out, you know, if I'm on a jog or I'm between, I'm eating my lunch or something.
26:06.260: And they'll.
26:07.580: Keep the site playing, and then they'll reach over and save tracks just randomly in the case that they need that type of track later on for a future project.
26:15.580: So totally dig it.
26:17.580: I just noticed a feature here, and I am going to call.
26:21.440: The Final Cut Grill audience.
26:23.360: I'm going to call you out on this.
26:24.960: I just noticed.
26:26.159: So when I click on the playlist button, which is in the upper right-hand corner, I can create a playlist.
26:32.040: And I had made one the other day just to try it.
26:34.600: My faves.
26:35.960: Okay.
26:37.160: Not only can I view and edit my playlist, but I can share my playlist.
26:41.960: That's what I was.
26:42.680: Yeah, so now when I click on that guy, I get.
26:46.440: I can either email it to somebody, but I also get a shortened a bit.
26:50.440: ly URL.
26:52.279: So like we could like
26:54.780: Actually, we could like make you know the Thomas Grove Carter bitchin television commercial playlist.
27:02.679: You know, with and share them with people.
27:05.159: That's really cool.
27:06.200: I did not realize, I did not notice that the other day.
27:09.240: One, you know, as I mentioned before, we're always trying to think of
27:12.940: how to make things easier for video editors and kind of make the whole licensing workflow and the licensing process smoother.
27:18.620: And I think is getting approvals is obviously can be it can be a drag sometimes.
27:23.260: You know, it's when you're especially to say the least, especially if you're working with
27:27.260: multiple producers on all different levels of approvals.
27:30.299: And so this, I think, that feature actually is very, very useful for that.
27:34.539: It's when you're you can just quickly share with
27:36.840: You know, a couple producers and say, what do you think of this track?
27:39.480: and get feedback like that.
27:41.320: I think that's super, super helpful.
27:43.080: So playlists are new.
27:44.679: We also added
27:45.760: Some new search features.
27:47.039: You can search by instrument, you can search by track length, which was a requested feature that we got in the past.
27:54.240: You can search by BPM as well.
27:56.240: There's like some little sliders on the site.
27:58.240: So you can say, I want to search between this BPM and this BPM, beats per minute for the track.
28:03.120: And so all of that, just to make we want to make it as easy as possible.
28:08.019: Very cool.
28:09.059: Yes, I'm sorry.
28:10.580: I got to admit, I missed half of what you just said because I was looking at I was still back on playlists and all the ways I can edit the playlist.
28:19.580: let's say I were to make a playlist as I am known to do.
28:24.059: Quite often I will name things with completely inappropriate names.
28:29.160: And like I could make, you know, Fenwick's bitching dance dance cuts or whatever.
28:35.160: And then when I need to share that with somebody, I can actually go in and still edit
28:39.740: Edit that name if need be.
28:41.900: Okay, so I'm sorry, you started talking about searching.
28:44.700: Oh, I was just saying that we've added some more search functionality to the site just to make it
28:49.340: Even easier to kind of pinpoint down the tracks if you're looking for something really specific.
28:54.059: Like I want an indie rock track that also features an organ, then you can actually choose the instrument.
29:01.500: You can say, this is the
29:03.220: Subgenre, I want, and this is, I want it to include this instrument.
29:06.420: So that just sometimes people have certain requests and things that they're looking for that are pretty specific, and that kind of narrows in on that a bit.
29:13.860: All right, so hold on, this is interesting.
29:17.500: Advanced filters is what you're saying then.
29:20.620: Exactly.
29:21.419: Okay, I did not notice that.
29:23.659: All right, so I can search by length.
29:27.600: Beats per minute.
29:28.720: Oops, I just I clicked on something.
29:30.560: Okay, beats per minute.
29:33.520: Genre mood.
29:36.740: And select the instrument.
29:38.340: Good grief.
29:40.260: I'm seeing that now.
29:42.500: Yes, I di I had not noticed the advanced filter.
29:45.299: And then and of course, I can search by the great artists.
29:49.059: Awesome.
29:50.840: All right.
29:51.720: Love that.
29:52.760: Had not noticed the advanced filter thing.
29:55.080: You know, this happens to me all the time.
29:57.720: I was having a discussion with somebody just the other day, and I was like, oh, I've never noticed that button.
30:04.720: Well, now you know.
30:05.760: And like this this is good.
30:07.120: It may help you out when you're in a buying.
30:09.120: A producer is like, I only want a track that's over three minutes long.
30:12.480: No, it's just like
30:13.560: Quickly say, like, okay, from this, I want it from this link to this link.
30:17.320: I only want to see tracks that are that long.
30:19.000: No, very cool.
30:19.880: And so that, I think that'll probably just speed up.
30:22.440: We just want to make that
30:24.500: Speed up the workflow and speed up that whole licensing process.
30:27.299: So, those are all some of the new features that we've put on the site.
30:30.980: We're really excited about, as well as just kind of a whole visual
30:34.640: Update on the site, and we've got a new logo and a new look.
30:38.240: So that's really fun for us too.
30:39.840: We're like super excited about that.
30:41.440: Now, I don't recall there again, Fenwick doesn't notice half the time.
30:45.960: I don't recall at least the prominence of most recent, but it but that shows me oh, okay.
30:54.920: It's actually just the the button there is forcing the sort by here.
31:01.020: Okay.
31:02.620: Okay.
31:03.260: Yeah, and the sort by pull pull down is nice too if I want to focus on uh slower ones with a slower beat per minute.
31:13.840: Exactly.
31:15.200: Yeah, this is you know to bring this around to Fine Off at 10, this will be the Friday episode.
31:22.639: On Monday's episode, we're talking with
31:25.899: Vid Price, and he's a music video editor in London.
31:31.340: And we had a whole discussion about or I should say future tense.
31:36.140: we are going to have this whole discussion about I just recorded them two hours ago about additional searching and sorting and filtering commands in the Final Cut 10 browser.
31:49.880: You know, it is this falls in line with something that I say all the time, that in today's day and age, we don't want to we need to distinguish the difference between excuse me
32:01.160: We need to distinguish the difference between looking and searching.
32:05.640: You know, it's really easy to just go, yeah, next, next, next.
32:10.360: But when we start
32:12.280: searching and letting our computer actually do the work for us and giving using those keywords and
32:20.280: genres and whatnot, like you said about the even the instrumentation.
32:24.680: Like if I want something that's heavy in drums, well, maybe I can do that.
32:29.320: Or I need something that's piano based versus
32:32.360: Guitar-based.
32:33.160: I know that times in the past when I've worked with composers, including my very good friend Jeff Dykehouse.
32:39.960: I can remember one time we were five iterations into a piece for a client.
32:45.620: And at like at you know, in the eleventh hour, they said, Yeah, I think I want this thing to be guitar and not keyboards
32:55.000: Okay.
32:57.800: Now that we've changed the instrumentation, we'll call in new performers.
33:04.120: And it can be hard that way.
33:07.000: All right.
33:07.640: What else?
33:08.840: What else?
33:09.640: One thing I did want to mention, and I know you've mentioned it previously on your show, but we do have a video production
33:17.940: post production.
33:18.659: We do a lot of post production, a lot of video editing stuff on our blog on our site.
33:23.700: So I didn't know if your listeners know about that or not.
33:28.260: Yes.
33:28.980: It is it's interesting because
33:32.419: It's a button.
33:33.380: It's just as prominent as music and sound effects.
33:35.860: And actually, we should probably mention sound effects because I know that I barely ever do.
33:40.660: But yeah, no, your blog is
33:42.540: Crazy extensive.
33:43.900: Tons of stuff on it.
33:45.180: We post on it several times every weekday, and we post content that I think is really useful.
33:50.540: We try to post content that's really useful for video editors.
33:53.360: and video producers, everything from how to do you know, you've done tutorials for us, like how to do some operation, some procedure in Final Cut Pro 10.
34:01.860: How to do something, we do a lot of After Effects, we do a lot of camera gear.
34:06.419: Yeah, I think the thing that's amazing about it is just the variety of stuff that's there.
34:12.620: Well, we tri I appreciate it.
34:14.060: We definitely try.
34:15.020: And it's so fun for us.
34:16.780: I mean, our team, we've got a video back many of us have a video background.
34:21.100: And so it's just like such a joy for us to go
34:23.440: every day and kind of keep up with the trends and what our customers are kind of into and kind of keeping our finger on the pulse of video production and filmmaking.
34:32.800: And so
34:33.540: I would encourage any of the listeners to go check it out.
34:36.820: And we always welcome any content ideas or anything like that.
34:40.580: If someone has something they want to see specific, we'd love to cover it.
34:43.540: Just let us shoot us an email and let us know.
34:46.020: Yeah, I just got sucked into know your gear, the steady cam.
34:51.859: It says all the all the new steady cam options out there.
34:55.540: Yeah.
34:56.179: Right.
34:56.920: So and even news.
34:58.680: That almost warrants its own tab up above.
35:02.280: Did you have that discussion?
35:03.960: I don't know if we did, actually.
35:05.880: But yeah.
35:06.360: You got it down in the well, I guess it's part of the blog.
35:10.220: Yeah, we definitely we try to cover a little bit of everything when it comes to kind of the professional video industry.
35:17.500: So this may be I'm famous for
35:22.620: pushing the boundaries of the question sometimes.
35:24.620: Uh d th traffic-wise, does the does the blog
35:32.580: How does the blog do?
35:34.020: Because I do think that most people think of Premium Beat as a place to go get music.
35:38.100: Sure, yeah.
35:38.820: And that is, I mean.
35:41.279: Our face, I mean, for the most part, is the music site.
35:44.559: I mean, we have a lot of customers from all over the world, and we sell music.
35:49.359: We'd love for people to come to the music site.
35:51.039: But we do also have a lot of traffic that comes to the blog.
35:53.520: We have
35:54.160: a good following on social media.
35:55.600: We post a lot on Twitter and Facebook.
35:57.360: And it's really important for us to kind of stay be involved in that community.
36:02.320: And we're passionate about video, we're passionate about filmmaking.
36:06.560: And by kind of
36:08.220: knowing what people are into and what what's the latest in video editing and video production and filmmaking, I think it allows us to do the music business better.
36:19.200: Yeah, and so it's really they kind of go hand in hand.
36:22.240: And we do have a good a really good blog following and it's we've had we've had it for the blog for four years now actively and it's just continued to kind of grow and grow.
36:31.360: And it is interesting because
36:34.500: And you know, I think about this all the time when you oh, I just found a cool feature.
36:39.780: When I scroll up with the
36:43.200: With the menu bar, scrolling it up under the top bar where it says Royalty Mus Free Music and Sound Effects, it goes
36:55.020: Beep, and it changes to the Premium Beat logo.
36:57.339: Cool.
36:58.140: Sorry, I'm nerding out on your graphic design here.
37:00.460: Awesome.
37:01.660: I just happened to notice it when I scrolled out.
37:03.760: So no, I think it's interesting when you take a company like Premium Beat, and let's face it, your core competency is music licensing.
37:11.920: And then you delve into this whole other thing.
37:15.040: Okay.
37:15.440: And this other thing is the blog.
37:17.440: You're not selling any content on the blog.
37:20.000: You're not, you know, necessarily encouraging me to go to
37:25.220: you know, B and H and buy a lens.
37:27.700: I don't th you know, and I don't know, maybe you are, but but it it's certainly not obvious.
37:31.779: It's not like, you know, hey, you sh here's Danny's favorite lenses that you should go buy.
37:37.779: Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.
37:39.620: So I look at something like that, and I'm like, okay, there's a I mean, I have a blog and I update it like once a month or something like that.
37:46.580: So I know how much work it takes to do something like this.
37:50.500: So obviously.
37:51.940: To me, that just screams that this is really like your corporate passion project.
37:59.380: And it just says to me, this is something that, I mean, yeah, it'll
38:05.220: Bring people to the site, and yeah, maybe they'll buy a a cut of music while you're here.
38:09.539: But frankly, you know, th there's nothing twisting my arm to do that.
38:14.260: So I just see it as like
38:17.040: I'm glad these guys are doing this.
38:18.640: And it just seems a lot more genuine and pure than a lot of other things.
38:22.560: Well, I appreciate it.
38:23.680: I mean, we are.
38:25.240: Super passionate about filmmaking and about video production.
38:28.040: And we love it, and we want to give our customers kind of info to
38:33.260: Help them do their jobs better and help and give them kind of tools to kind of be video better video producers, video editors, filmmakers.
38:41.180: And so
38:41.760: The blog gives us an opportunity to do that.
38:43.920: And we love it.
38:45.120: We enjoy doing it.
38:46.000: And we post on it all the time.
38:47.600: And we love just sometimes it's just like a cool video that we saw somewhere.
38:51.600: or cool tutorial, and we get original tutorial content created sometimes.
38:56.560: And it's a lot of fun.
38:58.080: We really have a good time with it.
39:00.000: Yeah.
39:00.540: Hey, speaking of original content, totally off the record, but I know I'll forget to cut this out.
39:07.980: I need the new graphics package for the tutorials.
39:11.820: You got it.
39:12.460: You got it.
39:13.180: I can handle that.
39:14.220: Okay.
39:15.220: No problem at all.
39:16.020: I am famous for saying stuff off the record and forgetting to cut it out.
39:20.099: So we mentioned the playlist, we mentioned the blog.
39:22.740: Let's talk a little bit about sound effects.
39:24.819: I will admit, I've never purchased a sound effect through you guys.
39:28.539: Tell me a bit about them.
39:30.140: Sure, you bet.
39:31.180: So we have tons of sound effects.
39:33.579: And we, you know, we don't.
39:34.700: Music is kind of
39:36.740: Are the core of our DNA, but we have some, you know, we do some sound effects work as well.
39:42.660: I just, in general, um
39:45.000: Sound effects are not, they're probably not as popular.
39:47.400: A lot when I was a video editor, I didn't always use sound effects in projects, but I always use music.
39:51.480: So music's kind of our main thing.
39:53.320: But the sound effects we do have are awesome.
39:55.940: What's really cool about it, I think, are the packages.
39:58.420: Like that's the best thing about the sound effects.
40:00.579: So if you especially if you're like an app developer, game developer, or even if you're cutting say you're cutting a trailer, like a really high impact, high energy trailer,
40:10.620: If you want basically a bulk of sound effects that you can just use, have at your disposal and use in the trailer, we have a package for you.
40:18.460: Oh, absolutely.
40:19.020: And I'll just say, you know, from experience, you go like, okay.
40:23.140: So, you know, I noticed, for example, you have your horror scary volume one.
40:27.779: Hopefully that sold a lot last week.
40:29.619: You know, so so like you'll start a project and you go, Okay, I need some gunfire.
40:33.540: And you'll go get a couple of guns and then you get into it, you realize, ugh, everything sounds like a Mannheim scream here.
40:41.460: You know, I need.
40:42.820: I why didn't I why didn't I get a couple of more?
40:46.340: And here you're selling like, you know, well, let's take a um
40:53.260: Magic and weapons is 221 sound effects for 50 bucks.
40:57.500: Exactly.
40:58.060: So you can buy sound effects individually, and we have a lot of folks that do, but I think it's super cool that
41:03.540: If you're going into a project, I mean, to have all the sound effects in your app, you know, already loaded up into Premiere, into Final Compro 10 or whatever you're using, you have all the sound effects in there, and then you can just have to go searching.
41:15.300: Once you're
41:16.240: Once you're in the app and you're cutting stuff together, you don't want to have to be jumping back and forth out of the browser, going over to the browser, downloading a sound effect, bringing it in.
41:23.520: Have them all there.
41:24.400: Like, just get the pack.
41:26.040: Always encourage people to do.
41:27.400: And you can just drag them, you know, you can just drag them in your project and you're good to go.
41:30.760: So, all the packs that we have, way discounted.
41:33.800: They're like, some of them are like 90%.
41:36.540: Off the cost is if you were to go out and buy each sound effect individually.
41:41.100: So it's a much better deal.
41:42.700: Yeah, like here's your racing games: 342 sound effects for 60 bucks.
41:47.020: So I want to take another little slight detour and talk a little bit about Final Cut 10 because this is something that we have been dealing with, and I've talked about this on past episodes, but we've been dealing with this more and more and we're starting to
42:00.559: Utilize this feature in our office.
42:04.799: So, you know, we have multiple edit suites in our office and
42:10.640: we have just started to dabble in creating our own custom effects libraries.
42:17.680: And we're talking about like stuff like lens flares and flashes and
42:23.820: things like that, visual effects.
42:25.260: And it's and I'm realizing here that we should be doing the same thing with sound effects because in Final Cut 10, I can make a library and I and although it is stored in one edit suite on one
42:37.540: RAID.
42:38.260: We don't have a local NAS or anything like that.
42:41.060: We just have locally attached drives.
42:43.780: But you can make that library
42:46.420: and you can store the media outside of the actual library file.
42:52.020: Then you can take that library file and duplicate it across
42:56.320: Across the office network.
42:58.560: Now, as long as I have that RAID attached to my local machine
43:05.020: If I launch that library, I have access to my whole, you know, premium beat sound effect library that I've purchased.
43:13.099: Now
43:13.820: Given your licensing, there's nothing keeping me from using those again on other projects.
43:19.980: So at that point, I can just
43:22.059: Drag them out of one library into the library I'm currently working on, you know, job number seven or whatever.
43:28.940: And then the tip here is at the end of the day, what you're going to want to do is you want to go up to your file menu, select your current
43:36.740: job library, the one you're currently working on, and do consolidate files.
43:40.980: And what that's going to do is it's going to pull those effects files off of the remote drive and store them in your local
43:48.840: Storage location, whether that be inside your library or an external storage location.
43:53.880: And then that way, that job in and of itself is
43:58.799: Is self-contained.
44:00.480: Now you didn't have to copy the entire sound effects library or the entire lens flare library into that job, which can get kind of cumbersome if you have
44:10.760: if you like to use a lot of lens flares.
44:12.600: Uh but um but it will just pull the files that you actually pulled over.
44:18.600: So that consolidate
44:21.380: I believe it's called and I should but don't you know, here I am blabbering on it.
44:24.900: I could pull it up here.
44:25.940: It's consolidate project files, but what you want to do is you want to do consolidate library files.
44:32.180: So you select the library, the
44:35.240: File menu is contextual based on what you actually have selected.
44:39.160: So when you consolidate library files, it pulls all that stuff in.
44:42.440: Anyway, little funnel cut 10.
44:43.780: Tippy.
44:44.980: Super nice.
44:45.540: Yeah.
44:45.940: And with our Sound Effects license, we only have one, and you can do just that.
44:50.740: Just like you said, you can use Sound Effect in as many projects as you want.
44:55.240: Forever.
44:56.040: So just one payment, that's it.
44:57.880: And you could, you know, you can buy the whole thing and use it in a thousand projects.
45:01.640: Totally cool.
45:02.520: Very cool.
45:04.500: And so if you have a really big gun and want to record it.
45:07.060: No, I'm kidding.
45:10.100: Okay, so sound effects, we touched on that.
45:12.340: Yeah, I gotta say, I think the playlist
45:15.779: Or, you know, audio light box, if you will.
45:19.299: I think that's the biggest thing.
45:21.859: I want to look at your you just you recently oh, I lost that page.
45:26.420: I clicked on the wrong thing.
45:28.500: Go back.
45:28.900: How do I do this?
45:30.420: Using the internet 101, Fenwick.
45:36.340: Royalty free.
45:38.420: Welcome to playlist.
45:43.020: No, that's I I lost you gave me the link to your tutorial earlier.
45:49.819: It's uh premiumbeat.
45:51.500: com slash new.
45:53.339: No, we'll slash blog slash
45:56.980: I think it's slash blog slash new premium beat, if I'm not mistaken.
46:00.980: Yep, new hyphen premium beat.
46:02.580: Okay.
46:02.980: Got it.
46:03.620: So, yeah, and you recently did a whole
46:06.140: post on the blog walking through some of the new features.
46:09.099: Okay, so mobile friendly, big deal, new player, the search is cool, playlists.
46:14.480: We talked about sharing tracks, but not again I mentioned not only can you share a track, but you can share a whole playlist.
46:21.760: So I think that would be a fun thing to share.
46:26.020: Ah, the activity history.
46:28.099: What for people that are forgetful and don't know, you know, you don't you listen to a trap like two days ago and you go back to the site and you forgot to
46:37.460: Share it, you forgot to favorite it, you forgot to add it to a playlist, and you're like, What was that track that I heard?
46:42.900: It was perfect for my project.
46:44.579: So, this actually is like your own, like, kind of personal monitor.
46:49.380: Knows all the tracks that you've previewed.
46:52.020: And so, you know, you can go through and try to maybe try to backtrack.
46:55.859: It's kind of like your history, essentially.
46:57.299: Oh, yeah, yeah.
46:57.940: For what you do on the site.
46:59.440: So and do I have to be logged in for that to actually work?
47:02.400: You do.
47:03.200: I'm fairly certain.
47:04.320: Yeah.
47:04.560: I'm pretty sure you do.
47:05.760: Yeah.
47:06.079: I mean, I guess it I mean
47:08.000: Because it would be, it's in your when you're logged in, it's actually, we have a little tab now called My Activity, and it's right in there.
47:16.720: Okay, I'm logged in.
47:19.200: My activ okay yeah, so underneath my login name, I come down to my activity.
47:24.900: I click on that and it says, you've been obsessing over the playlist.
47:29.140: No.
47:30.020: Yeah, and it'll tell you.
47:31.140: We also have another little thing that tells you your send to friend history.
47:34.100: So if you're like, what were those tracks that I sent Chris last week?
47:37.620: I can click on send to friend.
47:39.580: It'll tell me all the times that I've sent something to someone else.
47:42.140: Okay, you know what?
47:42.620: You're blowing me away here because, Danny, this is insane.
47:48.460: You're my.
47:50.580: activity goes back prior to the new website.
47:55.700: I'm looking at stuff I listened to back in October of last year.
48:02.339: Perfect.
48:03.140: How is that possible?
48:05.220: Well, you've been a great customer for a long time, and we appreciate it.
48:09.780: So we yeah, we've made it.
48:12.180: You know, we all your order history from past orders is all in there.
48:15.619: I mean, we've
48:16.440: This is, it kind of goes just because it's a new site.
48:18.920: I mean, all of everything kind of carries over all your order history, all your preview history.
48:25.160: So that's great.
48:25.800: Yeah, if you heard what was that track I used on the Christmas Project a few years ago.
48:30.840: Back in 08.
48:32.280: Exactly.
48:34.040: You can jump in there and check it out.
48:36.200: Yeah, that actually you kind of hurt my head when you did that.
48:40.780: Here, let's listen to something I listened to back in September of 2013.
48:47.100: Let's try this.
48:53.079: I'm not sure what I was editing.
49:01.359: That's kind of a wacky sports show or something.
49:03.920: I don't know what I was cutting back then.
49:05.760: But it's also just, it's not actually what I purchased in this view, it's actually what I was listening to.
49:11.320: Right, and you can also see your purchase history as well.
49:14.280: So that's all in there.
49:16.120: A lot of times, a request we get often is, where's my I need my license for a track that I bought three years ago or something.
49:22.760: That's all in there.
49:23.560: So if you need
49:24.880: You need a receipt or a license.
49:26.559: All of that is kind of in your order history there.
49:31.520: That's yeah, actually, that really kind of blew me away that it's stuff prior to this new website.
49:37.920: And then info order orders and downloads.
49:41.760: That's yeah, that's all the stuff.
49:43.520: Oh, so if I have misplaced the original, I can go download it again.
49:48.640: Exactly.
49:49.200: I guess that makes sense.
49:50.320: Yeah.
49:51.480: Well, very cool.
49:52.600: So um what uh w if if people if people wanted to
50:00.200: Submit stuff for your blog.
50:02.600: Is there a way to contact you guys?
50:04.920: Yeah, you yeah, definitely, you bet.
50:06.600: And we
50:07.660: We always want, we always really appreciate and love hearing from folks, readers, customers.
50:13.180: So if you have a blog post idea, something, a tutorial idea that you'd like to know how to do something.
50:19.260: whatever it might be.
50:20.220: You can give us blog ideas.
50:21.660: Support at premiumbeat.
50:23.339: com is the email.
50:24.859: And also anything we're always adding just because we've launched a new site, this the site is definitely not stagnant as far as like features and stuff goes.
50:32.940: We are
50:33.820: In the process of working on the next round of updates, that won't, it'll just kind of be like additional functionality and stuff added to the site.
50:43.180: That's another way, if you you can contact us if you have any ideas for something you'd like to see on the music side of it, support of premiumbeat.
50:50.780: com.
50:51.240: And lastly, one thing we like to do and we're always happy to do is help folks if they need help finding a track.
50:58.200: We get requests sometimes from people that
51:01.040: Are short on time and they know exactly what they need, and they'll send us a track that says, Hey, you know, do you have something that's in this style?
51:09.080: Whatever it might be, and we're always happy to kind of help with that as well.
51:12.520: Oh, very cool.
51:13.320: I did not realize that.
51:14.840: And then I noticed also here you have this little pop-up window here at like the top.
51:19.620: Top tracks.
51:20.580: Here, let's listen to the top track tonight.
51:22.260: It's called Bricks.
51:34.300: I don't know where I would use this.
51:39.660: Oh, here, here, I have a feature request.
51:42.620: Go for it, I'm listening.
51:43.900: I think you should take.
51:46.940: Submissions from users.
51:50.140: You have to actually be a paying user, and you can submit your own version of
51:56.859: Premiumbeat.
51:57.900: com.
51:58.940: I'm writing this down.
52:00.060: And it will ran and you can randomize those.
52:04.380: I would love it.
52:05.599: This premiumbeat.
52:06.960: com, you know, the voiceover watermark person, I mean, it's crazy how people have kind of like.
52:13.820: It's become kind of its own legend.
52:16.300: The other day, someone tweeted at us and said that they wanted to use premium beat music for their wedding, and they wanted the
52:22.260: Premium beat.
52:23.220: com guy to be their officiant.
52:24.980: You know, it's like, it's, it's so crazy.
52:27.300: I mean, we love hearing stuff like that.
52:28.980: It's awesome.
52:29.780: But I like your idea.
52:31.940: So it's like wedding.
52:34.200: Whose voice is it?
52:35.400: You know, I'm not 100% certain, to be honest.
52:37.960: It was before, it was kind of before my time.
52:39.880: I think it's been the same voice for the last nine years, but
52:42.840: I I believe it is a it's just you know person it's nobody on staff.
52:47.240: It's like a professional voiceover.
52:50.120: Are you familiar with the soundtrack called um
52:53.820: The audio file called Rough Cut Lady?
52:56.460: I'm not.
52:57.340: Oh, really?
52:58.300: I'm not.
52:59.580: Okay, I'm going to play this.
53:00.620: I'm going to violate some YouTube copyright here.
53:04.340: I'm going to YouTube.
53:05.540: I I'm I'm always shocked when I find people that don't know who this is.
53:09.540: Rough cut lady is um
53:15.579: It's just here.
53:17.420: You know what?
53:17.740: I'm going to take.
53:18.619: It's 58 seconds.
53:19.820: We're going to listen to it together.
53:21.420: Real marketing genius.
53:23.740: Speaker 3: Real marketing genius.
53:27.020: Today we salute you, Miss.
53:28.700: I don't know how to view our.
53:29.859: A rough cut lady.
53:31.060: Speaker 3: Miss, I don't know how to view a rough cut lady.
53:34.099: You approach each rough cut viewing with the fresh eyes of a six-year-old child with ADD.
53:40.180: Speaker 3: Why is the time code on bare?
53:42.579: Even though you've been fully briefed, you still won't have.
53:44.859: Hesitate to throw in freshest insight like, We need VO, and we could use some music here.
53:51.020: Speaker 3: It's only a rough cut.
53:53.099: No detail is too small.
53:55.420: No sound bite is too long.
53:57.980: No duh, we need grain.
54:00.420: Speaker 3: Gee, I hadn't thought of that.
54:02.420: So grab another Clio Award, oh Mistress of the Misinformed.
54:06.099: Because when it comes to giving obvious feedback, your comment basket is full to bustum.
54:11.859: Speaker 3: Miss, I don't know how to view a rough card lady.
54:18.780: So, um, I was obviously playing something for Miss Rough Cut Lady a while back, and she's like
54:27.880: What is that voice in there?
54:32.119: We've actually had a couple I've had a couple emails over the years from folks that have contacted us.
54:38.440: I've seen that if
54:39.640: Have asked about, is this if I license it, does it have the track?
54:43.079: This person's voice in the track?
54:44.520: No, no, it's called I just I just want to know if um
54:49.840: If there's any famous instances of it accidentally going to air.
54:57.700: Know of any off the top of my head.
54:59.620: We've now talked about the watermark way too long.
55:01.940: Anyway, yeah, our big joke in the office is: you know, I like the tune, I'm just not crazy about the lyrics.
55:11.680: Exactly.
55:12.640: Anyway, Danny, thanks so much for everything.
55:15.200: You guys have been great supporting this show.
55:17.600: And I know that you're, you know, you love supporting the community.
55:21.600: And I think that's part of the reason why.
55:25.340: It's such a privilege to have you be a part of this.
55:28.780: And thanks for sharing everything about the
55:32.220: About the site?
55:33.500: Hey, you bet, Chris.
55:34.779: I had a lot of fun.
55:35.579: I appreciate it.
55:36.059: And we do.
55:36.539: We love supporting your show.
55:39.339: You have great content and a great community.
55:41.900: So it's a real privilege to be on here.
55:43.579: Thanks a lot.
55:44.240: Yeah, I gotta say, it's always fun when I'll get tweets every once in a while.
55:48.000: Hey, I just bought a cut from Premium Beat.
55:49.920: It's like, oh, cool.
55:50.880: Yeah, I've seen those, and we love it.
55:52.400: It'll say, oh, Chris sent me.
55:54.420: You know, FCPX Grill.
55:56.500: I got you know, I came from FCPX Grill.
55:59.540: I've seen it a few times on Twitter.
56:00.980: So that's awesome.
56:02.180: I mean, that's just like.
56:03.340: That's so great.
56:04.140: We love that.
56:04.860: Awesome.
56:05.260: Awesome.
56:05.660: All right.
56:05.900: Well, hey, man, thanks for staying up late.
56:07.980: Thanks for participating.
56:09.340: And we'll be doing this for a long time, I hope.
56:13.420: Okay.
56:13.859: You bet.
56:14.339: Thanks so much, Chris.
56:15.140: Take care.
56:15.700: Take care.
56:17.300: All right.
56:18.180: So once again, Danny, thanks a lot.
56:21.380: It was I hope you see now that I told you at the beginning that I wasn't going to waste your time.
56:27.660: There was some good there's definitely some good stuff in there.
56:30.380: I love the keyboard shortcuts.
56:33.420: If you remember with the old website, you'd anything you wanted to listen to
56:37.840: you had to open up that ridiculous pop-up and it always was in your way and you were always pulling it out of the way.
56:42.880: So many extra clicks.
56:44.400: So they've made they've tr streamlined the ability
56:48.620: to tr you know, try, you know, step through a list of things.
56:52.380: And I gotta say, the thing that like kind of perked my attention was the idea of being able to share those playlists.
57:02.880: So, I think that's something that we could do.
57:05.119: I think, you know, I don't know how to work with that, but I would like to get, you know, if, first of all, okay, I'll tell you what.
57:12.540: Right off the top.
57:13.500: If anybody has a playlist that they want to share, mail it to me.
57:16.700: I'll put it on the website.
57:18.860: Who knows?
57:19.580: Maybe I'll get guests who are on the show.
57:23.500: Maybe I'll strong-arm them into making me a playlist.
57:27.980: And we could share it along in the show notes of their show.
57:30.859: And frankly, I'm going to I'll tell you what I'm going to do.
57:33.500: I'm going to email Danny right now.
57:35.660: Sorry, Danny, I'm giving you homework.
57:37.500: And I'm going to ask you to make a playlist.
57:39.660: And I'm going to
57:40.820: Put it in the show notes of your show.
57:42.980: And since it's already, you know, 10 o'clock at night there, he's not going to do it before I have to post the show.
57:48.900: I don't know, maybe he will tomorrow.
57:50.740: But I will put that in the show notes.
57:54.140: Uh who knows, maybe we'll say uh Danny, uh s make me a playlist of your top ten um
58:02.340: Let's do corporate inspirational pieces.
58:05.540: There you go.
58:07.140: That'll do.
58:08.100: So, anyway, I hope you enjoyed this.
58:10.980: I sure did.
58:11.940: It was great chatting with Danny.
58:14.540: We already have a free meal all lined up next year at NAB.
58:19.180: So thanks for being here.
58:21.420: Please go to iTunes.
58:23.180: Say that for a podcast that was all a commercial, it wasn't so bad.
58:28.220: And we'll be back on Monday.
58:30.539: So Monday's episode, I'm going to tell you right now, you're going to dig this one.
58:35.099: I talk with a guy by the name of Vid Price.
58:37.900: He's a London-based editor.
58:39.660: He cuts in Final Cut 10.
58:41.440: His primary focus, music videos.
58:44.240: And I got to tell you, I really enjoyed the conversation, and I know you're going to dig it too.
58:49.359: So that'll be Monday's episode of The Grill.
58:51.599: Have a great weekend.
58:52.720: We'll talk to you Monday.
58:54.560: Later, later.