foley? (free/$ website sources?)

Randall_Oelerich

Randall_Oelerich

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Any suggestions for free or $ foley website sources? I found freesound.org and just joined up, also found sounddog.com mentioned from a search here on dvxuser.com Any other suggested sites? I am editing my first short film, within a week of adding in foley. I do have a Sony CD with some sound effects, but looking for any good sites, especially if searchable, to be sure I get the sound effects I need (car driving, crow caws, person smoking, car door, walking in leaves, anything ambient in a cemetery, glass bottle smashing against tombstone, person falling to ground, etc)
Randall
 
First I'll give you the standard rant...
1. it's Foley (capitalized - because it's someone's name)
2. Foley is not the same as FX. Foley is recorded in sync to picture, if it's pre recorded it's by definition not Foley, it's FX.

There is some grey area since there is what is called WIFO (WIld FOley) which is basically FX covering what would normally be done in Foley, but.....

Anyway. Sound Dogs are a good source, recording your own is often a better choice (if poss). I would post on some local boards and see if someone local has some libraries they want to share. You can often get sounds from people if your looking for something very specific and you can also trade if you get some decent local recordings. For instance I have ton's of SF Bay Area but nothing from Minnesota. I have recordings from New Zealand because I traded some sounds with an editor down there. Build up your personal library. This of course does not work with commercial FX. So it's important to have recordings you CAN trade.
 
You might want to slide on over to Wikipedia (and dictionary.com) and fix the rampant lowercase usage instances of foley out of respect for Foley. =) Don't get me wrong, I think you are right, we should use Foley so Foley is remembered; it would be like if the word einstein became common usage and we forgot about the person behind the word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(film_production)

Noiz2 said:
First I'll give you the standard rant...
1. it's Foley (capitalized - because it's someone's name)
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