whoosh

[Bruce Watson]

I'm looking for a bit of Foley to use with some lower thirds. I want a whoosh, then an inverse whoosh like the opening and closing of the doors in the original Star Trek series (only perhaps lower in pitch).

I want to use this to subtly call attention to the lower thirds when I roll them out and then roll them up. Just to dress things up a bit. For an example of this technique, I think ESPN does this a fair amount (disclaimer -- I dropped my cable provider and therefore can't see ESPN any more, so things may have changed in the last year or so).

Sadly, I don't have the talent, training, or equipment to create this on my own so I'm looking to buy it. I'm sure there's the Foley equivalent of buy-out music (royalty free), but I haven't found a source for this kind of sound effect. I'm probably just not looking in the right places.

So... Anyone have any pointers to where I can buy suitable Foley sound effects work?

 

[Crafters of Light]

Have you looked at sites like Freesound.org? They distribute through creative commons license.

http://www.freesound.org/index.php

 

[Gohanto]

http://www.videocopilot.net/products/dsfx/

Soundsnap.com
Sounddogs.com
http://thewhooshanthology.com/

 

[JordanBlock]

It's only Foley if you're performing it to picture. What you're after is just a sound effect.

 

[Bruce Watson]

It's only Foley if you're performing it to picture. What you're after is just a sound effect.

Good point.

 

[Bruce Watson]

http://www.videocopilot.net/products/dsfx/

Soundsnap.com
Sounddogs.com
http://thewhooshanthology.com/

I *knew* this stuff was out there! I don't understand why I didn't turn it when I was searching and searching and searching. Some days I hit the search terms right, and then there's days like today...

Thanks. The Woosh Anthology is just what I'm after I think.

 

[Bruce Watson]

Have you looked at sites like Freesound.org? They distribute through creative commons license.

http://www.freesound.org/index.php

I'm gonna check this out when I get a big enough break between thunderstorms. I tend to get mesmerized by sites like this.

 

[Noiz2]

It's pretty easy to record a bunch of Whooshes, and kind of fun but @$35 the whoosh anthology sounds like a good deal.

You can reverse them in just about any app, I think you can even do it in FCP.

 

[davefisk]

Any basic sound effect library should have enough basic stuff for you to create your own whooshes. I used some great fireballs and windmill whooshes to create the lower thirds on Hell's Kitchen (which they are still using, even though I haven't worked on the show in several years). Having something unique that you've created will sound better than a canned "whoosh" sound that everyone has heard before.

 

[Noiz2]

I would second Dave here. The library sound like it's probably got a good palette to work from but you will want to play with, stretch, alter, mix, etc them to make them fit what you need.

It's fun and it sounds better.