Using music for a video backing

[Davie_GLA]

Hello. I am trying to put together a video for an occasion and want to use a licensed track behind the content.

Happy to pay for it but as is probably want to put it on YouTube I guess it will be flagged as copyright?

The video will be private to those with the link but the algorithm won’t care I’m sure.

How do I legally obtain the track for import into something like iMovie, davinici resolve etc?

The track is a Metallica one and really don’t want to answer any legal issues. If it matters I would be happy with the instrumental version too.

[StevieBee]

Provided you have legally obtained the track then You Tube won't reject the video. All that will happen is that in the description below the video you'll see a message that lists the song name, publisher, etc and that you'll not be able to monetise the video.

[Davie_GLA]

StevieBee said:

Provided you have legally obtained the track then You Tube won't reject the video. All that will happen is that in the description below the video you'll see a message that lists the song name, publisher, etc and that you'll not be able to monetise the video.

Thank, but how does youtube know I legally obtained it? I'm not bothered about monetising.

[StevieBee]

Davie_GLA said:

StevieBee said:

Provided you have legally obtained the track then You Tube won't reject the video. All that will happen is that in the description below the video you'll see a message that lists the song name, publisher, etc and that you'll not be able to monetise the video.

Thank, but how does youtube know I legally obtained it? I'm not bothered about monetising.

As nuyorican says, it doesn't..... although all music files contain embedded metadata which includes the code to link a track to the owner (publisher) and depending on how you came by the track, this metadata can be lost or absent and that's when the platforms kick it out. Or can kick it out. They seem less bothered about this these days.

[Davie_GLA]

Hmm.I have bought the track but for some reason I couldn't get it into a format to put into a file.

I probably did this the hardest possible way and used a linux tool to download the music video, extract the track and convert it to an audio file. I then added this to the video.

In reality it has gone full circle then but almost certainly will not have any meta data to credit the artist however I know the youtube algo's are smart enough to recognise a song.

[StevieBee]

Davie_GLA said:

Hmm.I have bought the track but for some reason I couldn't get it into a format to put into a file.

I probably did this the hardest possible way and used a linux tool to download the music video, extract the track and convert it to an audio file. I then added this to the video.

In reality it has gone full circle then but almost certainly will not have any meta data to credit the artist however I know the youtube algo's are smart enough to recognise a song.

Sounds like you're making a meal of it Davie!

Just go to iTunes, spend 99p and the track will be in your library which, whatever video editing software you're using will be able to access. Select track. Job Done!

[Davie_GLA]

StevieBee said:

Sounds like you're making a meal of it Davie!

Just go to iTunes, spend 99p and the track will be in your library which, whatever video editing software you're using will be able to access. Select track. Job Done!

Absolutely. I overthunk this! It’s done now. I’ll upload to YouTube and see what it does. Thanks for the help.