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Speeding up slideshows that are synced to music (mini tutorial)
Over the last few weeks I have been working on a picture slideshow DVD for the local high school awards ceremony. I was given several hundred photos and the music. A few pieces had a strong beat. If the picture transitions were not on the beat, the results were way less than appealing. After a few hours of banging my head trying sliding transitions back and forth a few frames at a time, I decided there had to be a better way.
Since I have the whole suite of Adobe tools, I went to Audition to see if it could be of any help. I was very excited to see an operator called “Find Beat”. Could not figure it out, but that was when inspiration hit. It was less than 2 hours from that point that I had the bulk of my transitions synced. And here is what I did….
1) Back I Premiere, I took the section of music that I was working with and copied it on a junk sequence. This I rendered out as audio only. The reason for this should become apparent in step 5.
2) Now I switched to Audition and loaded the junk WAV file on track 1. The second track I armed for recording from a microphone. I cranked the mic pre-amp gain way up, so that a small tap on the mic pegged the output.
3) With headphones on, I played track 1 and recorded to track 2. All I did was to tap out the beat on the microphone. Each beat gave me a nice clean spike. If you are not musicaly inclined find a friend, spouse, or cow-orker who is.
4) Trim the end of the second track to match the end time of track 1. I saved this track as “MusicName-beat”.
5) Back in Priemere import the Beat music track into a new audio track. Line it up the start with the original music track.
6) Now all you have to do is line up the transitions with the little spikes on the autio Track.
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
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Did you try playing the timeline and marking the beat with the asterisk key on the numpad? Seems like a whole lot easier.
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“marking the beat with the asterisk key on the numpad?”
And just where were you 5 days ago when I was having all the trouble?
Never knew about the asterisk key. Great trick. Went back to see if it would have worked for those troublesome tracks. It might have worked ok, but I like my way better even if it is more work. This is true especialy for fast beats.
-Skye
-Skye Sweeney
FLL Freak Productions
https://www.fll-freak.com
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