Sync Video to Music

fngman · Post by **fngman** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 2:41 am

I am looking for some help on syncing music to video. I am doing different sports clips and would like to give this a shot.

Any suggestions on how to do this would be greatly appreciated. Additionally if there is any software that may assist in this process, please let me know.

Thanks

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:08 am

There is probably an easier way to do it but I like to do it manually....

I do it by adding cue points.

Place the audio on the track...set the markers to "cue point" rather than "chapter point".

Press play and click on the mouse with the beat.

This will leave a cue point at each beat and then add the segments of video and it will snap to the cue point marker.

It helps if you listen to the song a few times in case there is a middle 8 you want to skip or the song has different tempo's in sections.

I find this imperfect but I like the organic feel of it.

I also like to experiment and work on the off-beat...or cue in guitar riffs/ drum breaks

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:20 pm

If you look in the Tutorials section you will find some answers.

Also, you would be surprised how many times the mind perceives that video is actually synced to audio. The phenomena is called Apophenia.

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness"

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:34 pm

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Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:14 pm

Taht is azimang.

It's actually harder to write it than read it!

LGO · Post by **LGO** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:10 pm

allsha ewa iscussda istha inha igpa atinla?

(Sorry, couldn't resist

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I manually do the synching like Clevo, but I'm incredibly anal about it. I put the music in an audio editing software and look at a graph of the music piece. Real easy to spot beats, high points, etc. I write down the time points of the beats in the music.

Obviously, I then load the music clip into VS and start my inserting of clips, stills and begin editing according to the time points I wrote down. Then, I render and view it noting which images or clips are a little off. You never get it right the first time! Finally, I adjust the durations of the images and clips that are off beat. Believe me, the final adjusts go really fast because you've put the effort into the front end of the process.

I've looked at and tried different pieces of software that claim to do this but the result was so far below what I can do that I don't use them.

Doing it manually (synching to music) is probably the most tedious thing I've ever done in VS, but I began doing it with Version 3 in 2000 and have made 6 different videos like this since then. They're as close to "perfect" as I think is possible. (Sorry, don't mean to sound conceited!)

Doing it manually all depends upon the music clip, having enough subject material, available time, and the patience and desire to get it precise. If you don't need or want it precise, forget what I wrote, above!

oodga uckla!

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:54 am

Click here to see how I do it.