It’s important consider what you are doing overall.
Usually you’ve captured multiple performance takes of the artist in various settings.
So these can be cut to the music rhythmically. Multicam features make this a pretty straight forward
It may also be that you are integrating some sort of story.
These scenes can be cut independent of the main edit…because the run time of the song is not as important in telling the story part.
then portions of the story elements can be introduced back into the main edit as “cut aways” even existing on a higher video track so that it’s easy to adjust their pacing and how they are intercutting with the performance part.
hth,
Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX