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matching concert footage to CD music track
Hello, a new user of FCP. I’m wondering what the accepted way of slowing & speeding up concert footage to match up to a music track from a cd is? I’m guessing you can, for instance, somehow mark a points in the music track (e.g. drum hits), and mark the points in the video that you want to match up, and then have FCP strech or compress the video between the points so that your concert footage will match up to your audio track. Any hints?
Thanks.
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4 Replies
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Shift F11 will do a fit to fill.
That sounds like what you are asking for.Steve Cohen
Senoir Editor
O2 Media Inc. -
What did you use to shoot the video footage?
Why does it not exacttly MATCH the audio CD already?
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Hey Matte,
My actual needs don’t involve concert footage (i’ll explain below), but it was a better example: I’ve seen folks make music videos for bands where they’ve got the CD audio track, and they need to match concert footage to it, where of course, the band wasn’t playing the song at the same speed or w/ the same timing precision as the real audio cd’s song. So speeding up or slowing down footage a bit is needed to match the 2 up.My real need is: I have stock footage of a baby banging his hands on a table. I have a music audio track that I need to match it to. I’d like to be able to slow or speed the footage between each drum whack, so that they match.
Do I really need to break up the footage with mark-ins & mark-outs and do fit-to-fills for each drum beat (as Steve suggested)?
Thanks,
MNR -
[MNR102] ”
My real need is: I have stock footage of a baby banging his hands on a table. I have a music audio track that I need to match it to. I’d like to be able to slow or speed the footage between each drum whack, so that they match.Do I really need to break up the footage with mark-ins & mark-outs and do fit-to-fills for each drum beat (as Steve suggested)?”
In that case, “hit-or-miss” is probably the easiest way.
Try it a few times.
Slowing or speeding the clip by a few percentage jumps and get the “feel” for it.Marking the first and last “hit” on the video and then marking the first and last “beat” on the audio will get you some “match-points” to try to adjust.
Its simply not an EASY thing to do. But you’ll get the hang of it with a little practice.
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