Thanks all, and my apologies...it's hard to describe what trying to ask. :
I was wondering if most of you find music to fit your videos, or if you shoot videos to fit music that you like. But I suppose the circumstances could warrant either approach, so I guess that's not really a fair question.
What I
really wanted to know is: once I find the video and the audio I want, how do I chop them up and make them fit together like 90% of the videos I see on youtube (and
every commercial, tv show, and movie that I see)?
I did some more searching last night, and I may have cracked the code. This
one special youtube video showed me how to select a part of a clip by dragging the little yellow handles on either side of the shuttle. I didn't know you could do that in PD (I'd always hoped so, but never figured it out), but now that I know this "trick", I can do amazing things in PD!!
So here's a process I started experimenting with last night, and I'm seeing some great results! I would love to get feedback on this method and hear of other methods as well:
- I drop the full video and full audio tracks onto their own timelines.
- Now I chop up the audio track (only) at the "critical" points: beats, cymbol crashes, distortion guitar, etc.
- Then I slide the individual audio clips to the right (on that track) to line them up the peices in the video where they make sense.
- This leaves me with many "blank" spots on music track, and a continuous video on the video track.
- Now, because of that video I found, I simply click the video track, then "select" the parts of the video that are directly over blank areas of the audio track, and click the "Remove" button that appears above the timeline.
- And viola: a video synced to the music appears!!
The problems I see is that it takes a
lot of work, and getting the audio clipped
just right is a challenge. Audio tracks that don't have so many transitions in them is probaby an easier way to get started.
Thoughts? Is there an easier / less time consuming process?
Thanks for reading this wall of text! :