While there are many tips to help make your video content feel more realistic and dynamic, there is one trick that works better than all the rest. Sound effects are truly the video editor or content creator’s best friend.
Not only can sound effects be a great way to help immerse your audience into your films, videos, or ads, but they’re also very easy to work with and find. In fact, if you’re reading this article, you’ve already found some!
And while there are many different types of sound effects to consider for your video content, today we’re going to look at weather sound effects and where to find them. We’ll give you some of our top weather SFX options to consider, as well as share some more insights into how to use these royalty free sound effects in your videos and other content.
10 top royalty free weather sound effects
Alright, let’s start with a bang here and give you what you came here for. We’ll explore a bit more about how to license and use these royalty free sound effects below (including better explaining what “royalty free” music actually means), but for now, let’s give you a taste of what we’re talking about.
Whether these royalty free weather sound effects are meant to be big moments in your videos or more of a background lull to your long or short-form content, we’ve highlighted a few diverse weather SFX options for you to consider for your edits, including thunder and rain sound effects, wind, thunder, and lightning sound effects, and more.
Check out some of the top weather sound effects below.
Description: Rain falling and water is dripping out of the gutter
Description: Close-up sound of flowers blooming in time-lapse.
Description: Rain atmosphere with wind chimes ringing.
Description: Breathing, airy pad.
Description: Walking on grass fast.
Description: Breathing, airy pad.
Description: Rain pattering on an umbrella.
Description: Three different rain intensities with a subtle electronic hum.
Description: Bee buzzing.
Description: Loop: Ambience of stormy sea with breaking waves. Medium distance.
These are just a handful of our top weather sound effect options for your videos. If you want to hear thousands more, visit our full sound effects library.
How to use weather sound effects
Now that you’ve gotten a chance to hear some weather sound effects, let’s go over some basics about how to use these sound effects in your edits. If you’re licensing your sound effects through a trusted music licensing website like Soundstripe, you’ll have plenty of tools at your disposal to work with these SFX.
Not only can you use Soundstripe extensions directly in several different apps like Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Express, Twitch, and Frame.io, but you can also easily license, download, and upload your hand-picked sound effects with a few simple clicks of your mouse.
The process of adding royalty free sound effects to your videos is similar to how you’d add any other audio or soundtrack music. You can add these audio files to your videos in any video editing platform. Here’s a helpful guide that explores how to add music (or SFX) to your video.
What are royalty free sound effects?
We should also explain how licensing and copyright rules apply to sound effects. If you aren’t familiar with the term “royalty free”, it basically means that it is music or audio that has had its copyrights licensed adequately for you.
That’s why your top option for music or sound effects (or other video or photo assets, for that matter) is royalty free audio that can be licensed from music licensing websites like Soundstripe.
The reason for this is that sound effects, similar to songs and other musical tracks, are created by artists who deserve compensation. Companies like Soundstripe compensate artists who create music or sound effects, providing complete protection and coverage for creators to use their music and sound effects on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and others.
Our top weather sound effect playlists
To go along with the royalty free weather sound effects shared above, let’s give you some more high-quality options to consider for your videos and content. Here are some of our top weather sound effect playlists curated by our talented audio team at Soundstripe.
Description: Thunderstorm sound effects, lightning, and other inclement weather soundscapes.
Description: Rain sound effects, drips, pours, and splashes of water effects
Description: Rain and wind sound effects, gusts and breezes of varying intensities
Description: Rustling leaves, crackling fires, & windy days complete this collection of autumn sounds
Description: Natural sounds of the world curated for the season of rebirth.
If you'd like to explore more weather sound effects for your videos, here are some additional royalty free sound effect playlists that would be great options to help make your content more realistic and dynamic.
More resources for using royalty free weather sound effects
Sound effects can always be a great way to enhance your content. Weather sound effects, in particular, are solid options to help your videos feel more natural and can be used to help build an ambient drone.
And while there are plenty of different ways to use sound effects in your video edits, there really are no right or wrong ways. The best way to learn is by experimenting with adding these SFX to your videos and seeing how they sound and feel to you.
To help you on your weather sound effect editing journey, here are some helpful articles from the Soundstripe blog that can give you more insights into working with SFX in your videos.
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