I've been into music production for awhile, and I've recently gotten very interested in film too. I've started taking some footage for a music video, but now I've got to start some editing. It's very important that the video is somewhat synced with the music. How can I do this? I thought about making a click track (just a metronome), and using it's amplitude I could tell where the beats are. Any other ideas?
Music Videos
Have u tried the conventional method ?
play the music out load while shooting the video ..
if the actor/actress is good .. he/she would soon learn to act along the sound..
i prefer this way .. old, clean and simple ..
play the music out load while shooting the video ..
if the actor/actress is good .. he/she would soon learn to act along the sound..
i prefer this way .. old, clean and simple ..
guess and check. if it's animation you should be able to do the math, but i would be too lazy to do that work.
Yeap. Loud playback (on car speakers, for example).
What it sounds like you mean is you have a video clip and are trying to sync some music to it. If this is the case, open up your standard video editor (Movie Maker is excellent for beginners) and hit import audio. Place the music on the "Soundtrack" layer and move your video around. If you are trying to film something to fit with music you should play the music while you film, then mute the clip audio and if needed dub the video later with a standard ($2) computer microphone.
I was in charge of the editing of my year 12 end of year video, all to music, and spent hours on the question of which program to use. I ended up using an old analogue video editor for the most of it and transferred the majority of the completed video to the computer. Finally I just used Win movie maker to throw in a couple of little special effects and captions. Worked wonders. Just get stuck into any program you find you can work with. You will stumble upon ideas and other programs to help you with individual tasks.
If it's video editing you are talking about, it is pretty simple. Just lay the music on the audio track and cut to the beat.
If you are talking about shooting the visuals according to the music, just bring a boombox along to the set and play the music out loud as you shoot.
However, there will be a problem if you plan to use a slow-mo effect in your visuals. If you do this in editing, you will find that the visuals will lag behind the music/lyrics.
What you can do is to play back the music at a faster speed during the shoot and get the actors to mime along at that speed.
Then when you slow-mo the visuals during edit, it will sync with the music track at normal speed.
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If you are talking about shooting the visuals according to the music, just bring a boombox along to the set and play the music out loud as you shoot.
However, there will be a problem if you plan to use a slow-mo effect in your visuals. If you do this in editing, you will find that the visuals will lag behind the music/lyrics.
What you can do is to play back the music at a faster speed during the shoot and get the actors to mime along at that speed.
Then when you slow-mo the visuals during edit, it will sync with the music track at normal speed.
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www.digitalvideolessons.com
Resource centre for digital video productions
You know the way in fil making they use a clapper board? - this is partially for syncing! Once you have two sources of video all you need to do is sync the clapper board and the whole thing will line up beautifully.
What you cas do is to but either a tone / beep / or clap sound at the start of your music track (or various sections of track if you are not doing complete takes). Then when you are playing back the music on the shoot this sound will act as the clapper board.
It's all about matching up the waveforms
What you cas do is to but either a tone / beep / or clap sound at the start of your music track (or various sections of track if you are not doing complete takes). Then when you are playing back the music on the shoot this sound will act as the clapper board.
It's all about matching up the waveforms
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