Staff Blog / Weekend Project - SoundCloud Inspiration
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by Stephen Niebauer
February 24th, 2011Hi ho hi ho!
It's time to make some more super sweet videos for the Weekend Project! This week, we are particularly excited because we've teamed up with the fine folks over at SoundCloud to get a cool piece of music for you guys to use in a video. This song is by SoundCloud user Vanchy, who also has a Vimeo account. It's called Catching The Simple But Happy Days (Electronica road song) and it is as good as the title suggests.
There is just one simple rule: Use the song below in an original video that you make this weekend.
Download the song, at the SoundCloud song page, or click the little down-arrow on the right on the song below!
Submissions are due Tuesday, March 1st at 11:59PM (EST). Submit your video to the Weekend Project Group or you won't be eligible for the contest. Please remember that only videos made specifically for this project will be considered. All submitted videos must be approved by the Vimeo Staff, so don't worry if your video does not show up at first.
The winner of this contest will get a free Plus account and a SoundCloud Lite account! If you're already a Plus member we're going to let you gift the Plus to whomever you choose (along with an extra 2.5 GBs of upload space)! The runner-up will receive an extra 1 GB of upload capacity on Vimeo, whether Plus or not.
Good luck, and we can't wait to see what you guys do with this great track! Don't forget to download it here!
Catching The Simple But Happy Days (Electronica road song) by Vanchy
UPDATE:
We have some winners! But to start off, this was the biggest Weekend Project to date! We had over 85 submissions. Thanks so much for participating. It was a blast to watch so many awesome videos, and super hard to choose a winner!
Our winner today is Weldon Byrns with his piece Seven to Eight. It's a nostalgic and endearing tribute to his son growing up.
Our runner-up is Trixie Barretto with her video, Sydney's reactions to Vanchy, where she goes around town to show off Vanchy's sweet tunes!
Also check out the video that Vanchy made for his song as well.
Congrats, guys! And thanks everyone for making this the biggest project Vimeo has seen yet!
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is this song under a creative commons license?
The best of internet music and video join together. Big kudos!
Music sounds great. I'll see what creative juices I can get going this weekend. Nice weather for it here in Adelaide 35 °C. Might have to head down to the beach...
OK, I wish I was in Adelaide...
Do I have to use footage I shot this weekend or can I use footage I already have and do a edit for the song?
I think that means yes you should shot for this project this week-end! good luck!
I read it that you could not use a finished video you already have done and just lay the track over it. I hope someone from vimeo could clear that up for me.
I'll have to play another day...good luck to those that can!
Sorry, but there was a little bit of miscommunication between us about the rules, and we ARE accepting videos that have not been shot in the past weekend. As long as you have edited the video this past weekend, and use the song, you are eligible in the project. Sorry about this!