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cutting montage to audio beat
What are the steps to cutting a video montage-stills or video clips-to the beat of the music? I’m not new to AE so a brief strategy is all I need. Thanks.
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You can hitt LL to twirl down the audio waveform for a selected audio layer.
You can see spikes and ebbs in the audio, which can help decide when things will happen.
With the audio layer selected, hitting the asterisk (*) key on the number pad will add an audio marker to the layer to mark off points that you want to mark for action.
Double clicking on a given marker opens up a dialog allowing you to add notes to the marker.
hitting period on the number pad will allow you to preview the audio from the current time for 10 seconds.
While previewing the audio, and with the audio selected you can hit the asterisk key to add markers in real-time. This is especially useful for marking off beats…etc.
When working with audio, I mark off as much ahead of time as possible.
Hopefully, these hints will help get you started.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web -
First, let me say I bow down before Aharon and his tutorials. ALL HAIL ! !
Then, let me say that AE is the last place on earth that I would attempt to edit video to the music. AE is NOT an editing program. Frankly something like this would be MUCH easier in a program like Premiere Elements, or Pinnacle 10. OK, Premiere Pro, but really a simple montage to music goes a lot faster in one of the simpler editing packages, once you figure out that you have X beats/minute, you can specify the default duration for pictures/stills in your project timeline and there you go.
Did I mention ALL HAIL AHARON! ??
Improviz in SF
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Thanks for your help. After posting, viewed ARabinowitz’s Audio PodCast, Excellent. Answered my questions!
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granted, as Scott said, if you are just editing, then AE is never your best bet. But if you intend to add motion gfx or effects, then you need AE.
So only use AE if you need to, otherwise, use an NLE (non linear editor) like premiere, Final Cut, or Vegas.
Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web
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