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  • How to measure bpm?

    Posted by Theo Van laar on March 12, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    With the use of Ultimate S, it is very easy to place markers at the beats of music. But is there also an easy way to measure the beats/minute of a certain piece of music? How is this done?

    Theo

    Theo Van laar replied 17 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Theo Van laar

    March 12, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    OK, I found a program on the internet called MixMeister BMP analyzer which can do this job. It looks great, so I expect it will be very easy now to make slideshows on the beats of the music. But I’m still wondering how other people (including professional editors) do this?

    Theo

  • John Rofrano

    March 13, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    For music in 4/4 time the equation is:

    240 / (number of seconds in one measure) = BPM

    The easiest way to calculate this is to listen to the music on the timeline and drop a marker on the downbeat for 2 measures. Then double-click between the markers and Vegas will tell you how long your selection is in the lower right of the timeline. This is the length of one measure. Convert this to seconds and drop it into the equation above. That’s your BPM.

    So if one measure is 2 seconds long then 240 / 2 = 120bpm.

    ~jr

    http://www.johnrofrano.com
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  • Theo Van laar

    March 15, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Thanks.

    Theo

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