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For a self-employed individual or freelance team.

Music

Take your projects to the next level with world-class music tracks.

  • Music
  • Sound Effects
  • Sound Design Tracks™
  • VFX
  • Finishing LUTs™
$499 /year
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Music & SFX

Create impactful audio with our cinematic music and SFX.

  • Music
  • Sound Effects
  • Sound Design Tracks™
  • VFX
  • Finishing LUTs™
$649 /year
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All-Access

Achieve maximum impact with our full suite of audio/visual assets.

  • Music
  • Sound Effects
  • Sound Design Tracks™
  • VFX
  • Finishing LUTs™
$799 /year
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A license optimized for freelance work.

Covers a self-employed individual or freelance team of up to 7 employees.

  • Freelance projects for clients with up to 1,000 employees
  • Social Media
  • Web Advertising
  • Marketing Websites
  • Podcasts
  • YouTube Monetization
  • Film Festivals
  • Projects licensed in perpetuity
  • Does not cover an in-house editor at a brand, agency, non-profit, etc.

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Easy Upgrades

Get a quick quote for any of the following:

Large Clients

Projects for clients with 1,000+ employees

Broadcast

Broadcast TV, TV ads

Netflix, Amazon Prime

Streaming

OTT/VOD, Streaming ads

Live Events

Sports, exhibitions, and other ticketed events

Film/Cinema

Theatrical releases, Film trailers

Custom

Custom language or placements

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How memberships work

A membership is an auto-renewing subscription that allows you to download individual files from our platform.

Your license to edit with these files is only active during your subscription period. Projects completed while subscribed are licensed forever.

Our Freelance memberships offer coverage for specific placements types. If you work on projects beyond what’s covered by your membership plan, simply reach out to our licensing team at [email protected] to add additional coverage to your plan or upgrade individual projects.

Membership FAQs

No: we price based on the total number of employees of the buying entity (including video and non-video roles), not on the number of users.

The Freelance plan is for freelance work and is exclusively available to a self-employed individual or company with 7 or fewer employees total (including video and non-video roles).

If you are an in-house editor at a brand, agency, or any organization with 8+ employees across all roles, you must purchase a Business plan in order to legally use our assets. Please reach out to us for a quote.

Our Freelance plans cover work for external clients with 1,000 or fewer employees. If you work on projects for clients with more than 1,000 employees, you have two options:

  1. If you only occasionally have large clients, you can start a Freelance plan today, then reach out to us any time you need to upgrade a project for a large client.
  2. If you often have large clients, you can get a quote to increase the client size limit on your plan.

Our Freelance plans cover web and social media advertising, YouTube monetization, and film festival submissions. If you need to use our assets in streaming/broadcast ads, streaming/broadcast programming, theatrical releases, or anything else not covered by our Freelance plan license, please get in touch.

Assets must be “synchronized” into a video or podcast project with other media and may not be used on their own. Assets may not be used to create new musical works.

Examples of things you cannot do:

  • Share files or accounts with other people
  • Make music with our assets or sing over our tracks
  • Incorporate our assets into any sort of product or app
  • Upload our assets to Spotify, Apple Music, etc.
  • Upload assets by themselves to YouTube, Facebook, etc.
  • Automatically or excessively download our assets

Please review the full license agreement for full terms.

If you choose to cancel, your membership will remain active until the end of your current subscription period.

Once your subscription ends, you will no longer have permission to use any assets you’ve downloaded in new projects.

Don’t worry, any projects you already published while your membership was active are covered forever and you will not retroactively receive copyright claims.

Membership fees are not refundable.

Yes! Upload to YouTube with confidence. We’ll never mute a Member’s video or have it removed.

Our assets are registered with YouTube’s Content ID system and YouTube will notify you that it has detected copyrighted music in your video. But don’t worry: this has no negative effect on your video or channel.

If you want to monetize your channel, simply connect your YouTube channel to your Lens Distortions account to pre-clear the channel for use with our assets.

Alternatively, you can create singe-use license codes to include when uploading your video in lieu of registering your channel. This option is great for clients you don’t work with on an ongoing basis.

Rest assured, videos cleared while your membership is active remain cleared forever.

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, etc are already cleared and do not currently require you to register your account or use License Codes.

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Memberships provide access to our platform to quickly find and download individual assets as needed for projects. They aren’t intended for the member to have entire albums or libraries downloaded to their hard drive.

You’re certainly welcome to download as many individual assets as you genuinely need for your current projects, but to prevent abuse, our system may notify you if it detects excessive downloading. Most members rarely run into this as they usually only download a handful of files on any given day.

Projects completed while a member are licensed forever, but the assets you download aren’t. Since the assets downloaded during membership are only licensed for use while a member, it wouldn’t be feasible to deliver entire libraries to members as they would have hundreds/thousands of unlicensed files floating around on their computers if they chose to cancel their membership. 

You can create a free account and download a watermarked preview of any music track and add assets to project playlists.

These “temp tracks” are great for seeing if a track is a good fit for your project or client. Simply activate a membership when you’re ready to officially use a track.

No: we only offer annual plans. We’re focused on long-term relationships with customers who benefit from year-round access to world-class assets. While our annual plans are a larger investment up-front, they pay for themselves with only a few projects.

Yes! You can upgrade to a higher plan at any time. Changes will take effect immediately.

If you’re already a member, visit the Upgrade Plan page to choose a new plan and see your prorated price at checkout. Upgrading will always start a new annual period, but you will receive a credit for unused time on your current subscription.

Please note the “Total Due Today” and “First Renewal” on the checkout screen to understand what and when you will pay.

We exist to help you stand out.

When you can’t hire a composer, sound designer, or colorist, Lens Distortions helps you do it all.

We understand that as a video professional, you strive to make every aspect of your edit world-class.

Our assets are designed to save you time and ensure you achieve the best results possible.

If you ever need something, our support team is knowledgeable, responsive, and ready to help you.

  • “We’ve been using Lens Distortions for a while and they add a nice high-end element to our films.”
    White in Revery
    Cinematic Wedding Filmmakers
  • “We needed good, realistic flares. Naturally, Lens Distortions was what we went with. They’re the best ones out there.”
    Imaginary Forces
    Title Designers for STRANGER THINGS
  • “I was finding it difficult to create the sound design myself, using all the elements from places like Epidemic Sound and Artlist. The intro on that video got lots of compliments and it was mostly due to LD so I am definitely using it again!”
    Alex Gear & Tech
    YouTuber
  • “The quality of selection is much better than any other licensing site I know. I already have a Musicbed subscription, but every time I know I need a really special track that will blow away my clients I come to Lens Distortions.”
    Shotlife Studio
    Luxury Wedding FIlms
  • “Lens Distortions is by far the best music I’ve encountered.”
    Paul Allen
    Filmmaker, Los Angeles
  • “The one thing about your stuff is that it’s always high-end. Some other sites are really frustrating, they have a lot of stuff but it’s not always good, so you waste a lot of time wading through junk.”
    Stephen Green
    Freelance Video Editor
  • “The new platform is INCREDIBLE. Really well built, easy to use, and looks great.”
    Zach Worley
    Creative Director
  • “There’s something about the style of everything you guys make that really resonates with me and the kind of work I enjoy doing!”
    Richard Mills
    Writer, Director, Producer
  • “Virtually every project benefits from having Lens Distortions used to treat and layer the frame.”
    The Mill
    Legendary VFX House
  • “Lens Distortions, for me, is a must because they have such unique stuff and they put a lot of effort into it. It’s definitely a quality over quantity kind of thing. Very curated… you don’t have to dig through 5 million tracks to find something good.”
    Cory Insights
    YouTuber
  • “Accessible and useful. Your music is the best stuff online. Oh and I nearly forgot, the Finishing LUTs are superb; I use them all the time.”
    David Baillie
    Award Winning DP
  • “One of my favourite providers of all things film and cannot imagine not being your customer. I use one of your finishing LUTs on every project I do! They are like the glue that holds it all together.”
    Jonathan Campbell
    Filmmaker/Drone Pilot
  • “Lens Distortions has THE BEST cinematic tracks for documentary projects in my opinion. I’m regularly drawn to your tracks that have an inquisitive or magical quality to them. Sometimes I’ll listen to your albums just to find new ideas or to think about editing a scene in a different way.”
    Bud Simpson
    International Director/DP
  • “The pricing is affordable which I REALLY like. I’ve licensed many tracks through Musicbed but I find their pricing has skyrocketed.”
    Asher Shellim
    Video Producer
  • “I really love the uniqueness of your assets, especially the SFX. Highly recommended!”
    Marek Dziekonski
    Commercial Photographer

For a video employee or an in-house team.

World-class assets. Robust license coverage.

  • Marketing employees
  • Agencies & Creative Firms
  • Large production companies
  • Broadcasters & Studios
  • Churches & Non-Profits
  • Government agencies
  • Schools & Sports Teams
  • Marketing employees
  • Agencies & Creative Firms
  • Large production companies
  • Broadcasters & Studios
  • Schools & Sports Teams
  • Churches & Non-Profits

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Whether you’re an in-house editor, a license coordinator, or the CMO, we’d love to explore how Lens Distortions® can help your content achieve maximum impact.

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  • More info on plans and pricing
  • Answers to your licensing questions
  • A tour of our platform and features our members love
  • Guidance discussing Lens Distortions® with your team
  • Enterprise project licensing
  • Traditional sync licensing

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