How to edit a music video coming up.
What's up everyone. My name is Cracka Lack. Welcome back to Cracka Lack
TV in today's video. We're going to go over how to edit a music video,
now to keep this video short and sweet.
I want to just go over all of the basics, the fundamentals,
the most important parts to putting together a music video.
And whether this is your first time editing a music video,
or if you're just looking to sharpen your skills,
I'm going to go over how I edit a music video and all the things that go into
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All right. So by now you've already shot the video.
You've already watched my video going over the camera settings.
You've already watched my video going over how to shoot a music video.
And now it's time to edit the video.
If you haven't seen those two videos. I'm gonna put links in the description,
but it is time to edit a music video. And this is,
this is actually a real music video that I do have to edit. I,
so the software that I use in software that I've always used to edit music.
Videos is Sony Vegas pro. Honestly, if I was starting over today,
I probably use Adobe premier pro.
I feel like premier pro is the most used software out there.
So if you're stuck and you're looking for tips or tutorials,
there's a lot more of that information out there for premiere pro.
But no matter what software you use,
these fundamentals that I'm going to show you right here apply to any software
that you use. So step one is making sure you set your project up correctly.
First off,
set your resolution to the highest quality of the footage that you're actually
using. So my camera shoots in 4k.
So I'm going to have a 4K resolution for my project.
Your software should have some sort of templates already in there.
I know this template right here. It matches my footage,
but with a lot of cameras, like for years,
the highest resolution that my camera would film in is 1920 by 10 80.
But you know, I've upgraded. So now we're in the 4k.
Put some respect on my name, frame, right? Make sure your frame rate
23.9764 resolution rendering quality, obviously the best Deinterlace method.
That's important to go none re sample mode at the several of your sample,
whether your software has those functions or not. Alright.
So the next step is to import all of your footage into the
project. So for this tutorial, I'm going to be using basic.
Nobody knows featuring B-Lils produced by Cracka Lack.
We shot this video in Colorado.
I have a whole vlog showing the behind the scenes of this music video shoot.
All right. So once you've imported all of your footage into the project,
the first thing that I do is I make proxy files of all my footage
and what it does for me. And granted,
this is like a $3,500 custom built top.
High-end performing PC that I built specifically for editing music videos.
But when I'm still editing these 4k files, it'll lag while I'm editing it.
So the proxy files are kind of like temporary lower quality files and it
makes your editing go a lot faster, a lot smoother. It fixes the lag.
So I always highlight all of the footage. I'll right,
click and then create video proxy with these files.
I've already created the proxy.
That's why it's not letting me choose this option. Now,
once you create proxy files, it'll take a little bit of time.
So what I'll do is if I know that tonight, I'm going to edit a music video.
Sometime during the day I'll open up the project.
I'll import all the footage in there.
I highlight all the files and then I'll go to create proxy files and I leave.
So I know when I come back,
the proxies are already made and the video is ready to be edited. All right.
So step one, drag your song down to the timeline.
The song is right here.
Drag your first performance shot down and match it up to the song.
There we go.
You ready? All right. Three, two, one. All right.
So a trick that I like to do with matching the words up to the song is mute the
song and then listen to the video clip for when a drop happened.
So right there, I can see the beat dropped.
That's when the hook starts and then now I'll unmute the song
right there.
They both drop I'll match those up and I'll play them together just to make sure
they sound on. And you can even see, like, when you zoom into the timeline,
you can see, you see the sounds.
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nobody
thing that I've noticed is it's like,
you almost want the video file to be a tiny bit ahead of the song.
Cause sometimes like people,
when they're lip singing the song or saying the words, it looks more on B.
If the video file is a tad bit early, like right here,
you can see as a tiny bit early, I'd rather have it right here,
then right there. So now I'm using that audio file.
Nobody knows when it's time to go.
All right. So that's the first performance shot right there.
The artist did the entire song.
I didn't know when it's time to go. It's time to go.
And then what I'll do is I'll actually delete the audio track for that video
clip. I'm gonna zoom out and now I drag the second performance shot.
Drag it down to the timeline.
What I'll do is I'll mute the previous one that already matched up and now we're
doing the same thing. We're going to mute the song. Let the video clip play.
Find where the, where the drop is it? Yeah.
Basic
boom. Right there. I'm gonna cut the clip on, mute the song again.
Let me see. It's right there.
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Then when you mute the audio file from the video clip, watch the video clip,
listening to the song
That's just a question that we both don't know.
Yup. It's on be good. Now again,
I'll delete that audio track from the video clip it's I have to have the
performance shots matched up on beat both of those,
and then you're going to continue doing the same thing, right?
So you'll drag the third clip, the fourth clip, the fifth clip,
however many performance shots you have.
The first thing that I like to always do is drag the performance shots to the
timeline, match them up with the songs to everything's on. And from there,
I like to do one track at the very top of my timeline.
And this is where I do all of the B roll.
So I'll just have a B roll track at the very top like this right here.
Now let's talk about color grading and color correction.
I recommend either doing it at the very beginning.
The only thing is when you do it at the very beginning,
it can make you have more lag while you're editing the video.
So sometimes people like to wait till the end.
Once they're done editing the entire video,
then they'll do all the color grading color correction.
But what I found is I liked to adjust my colors in the very beginning.
So I kind of have an idea of how the video is going to look or what color and
look it's going to have.
Cause I like to do it in the beginning most of the times, but again,
that's all personal preference. All right.
So let's say I was going to edit this music video right here right now.
So I do have a drone shot. Let me drag this drone shot right here.
You don't need to have a drone for music videos, but if you do have a drone,
like I live in Lansing, Michigan,
this is a music video shoot in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I mean,
when you think of Colorado, you picture mountains,
this would be a great time to be a drone owner and be shooting a music video.
Usually when I get drone shots,
I tend to show the drone shot right in the beginning,
the first shot when the video starts.
And then I always feel my drone shots at 60 frames per second.
So that way I can slow it down to do some slow Mo
yeah. So let me do that right now, actually.
And then what I did there, this is for Sony Vegas users.
The playback is going to be 40% cause it's your,
your project is 24 frames per second, but you film your slow mobile ad.
Let's say 60 frames per second. So those 60 frames per second,
when the playback is 40%, then it's smooth.
And there's not like those skip laggy type slow motion where it looks choppy.
Okay. Now, if you have a logo and why when the video comes on,
that's a great spot to put it. So I have my logo.
Anytime I shoot a music video or honestly film anything. I have this logo,
I play you guys the clip right here, I'll solo. It. It's just my logo.
And it kinda like glitches. If you want to know how to do that,
let me know in the comments.
I can do a whole tutorial on that or fiverr is another good place to you can go to
fiverr and look up a logo animation.
And there's probably someone for five bucks where you send them your logo and
they'll make it, do some cool, not for the logo.
I don't need any of the audio with it. So I delete that track.
And then as you see right here, I have the logo, but
the solid black behind black, or the jar you have
to be there. So what I do is I change this setting right here from source.
You get it through the screen or you can change it to add.
I like to just do ad.
And what it does is it makes star that black background see-through transparent.
So some tips for editing the intro of your music video,
great place to put some B roll. I'm going to throw some more clips in here.
If you have a camera that can film and 120 frames per second,
when you slow that all the way down to 20% at playback,
even more cinematic, even more Epic, I'll show you what that looks like.
So from there,
I would either do a fade to so maybe like both artist's face shot,
the basic shot to be lulls for not even knowing, but being a volunteers for my,
how to edit a music, video tutorial. All right, here we go.
I've got a shot of his face. I'm changing the playback to 20%.
And then with Sony Vegas, how you do is if you've dragged them like this,
it just it's going to make them fade together.
I mean, that was kind of smooth, but it kind of wasn't that smooth,
but it's total that'll work. Oh yeah. That's sweet.
That's a little far out shot from a place that there,
little speed ramp trick. This is a kind of more advanced.
I make it fast forward for a second and then go into slow motion.
So what I did was I just made it play this clip right here.
It goes fast forward into slow motion. So if you watch that,
it would look like this,
the end we'll do a quick little fast forward,
and then we're going to get the out of there. So
bam. Now we can go, let's go throw this flag back in there.
Remember Intro is just kind of b-roll,
setting it up for what they're about to see what they're about to watch.
Bam. It looks cool too.
When you have some B roll clips and let's say you let it play in real time for a
split second and then boom,
slow down the slow motion and then maybe fast forward for a second.
And then boom. Cut it again and go into slow motions right here.
I'm going to make it go into slow motion.
And then right here, I'm going to make it go back to real time.
A hundred percent
and then boom, cut again and go into slow mode.
let's say this was going to be the intro at the very end and I want it to fade out
and then we'll unmute those performance tracks. So let's, let's rewatch.
What we got right here. This is the intro so far.
Yeah. You know, that's a pretty good intro. There's a part right here.
You can see the speaker right here.
So what I would do is I would crop it in
like this. So that way you don't see that. And they also want the intro.
A lot of times you want to put the name of the song or the artists names,
one word of advice would be choose good.
I feel like finding and applying good fonts for music.
Videos is a whole tutorial in its own,
but I'll show you a couple fonts that I do like, okay.
So we're going to make this fade in, fade out.
And the name of the song was nobody knows, like, let's say I left it like that.
That looks very bad. That's Ariel Ariel font.
Yeah. This font right here is gloss and bloom.
I feel like this is a pretty cool looking font.
I would make this fade in and fade,
or you could always put the name of the song on the very last clip before the
hook drops for the verse drops drive.
either or half the videos I'll put the font on the intros have the videos I
don't, it's kind of personal preference.
Sometimes the artist always wants their name and the name of the song. So,
so if you want to go ahead and do that now let's start editing these, uh,
performance shots.
You're kind of going to go back and forth and go with the vibe,
the feel of the song.
So if it's a faster hype high pay song and there's a lot going on in
it, when you edit it, it needs to be like, you know, clip one, clip two, clip,
three, slow motion, fast forward another clip, another clip,
like move to match the energy of the song. This, if you listen to this song,
is more of a slower,
smooth song.
So the editing of it would be longer clips maybe instead of cuts
back and forth between the different shots it's going to be fades and something
that I always do with smooth songs. I show you,
I do fade out of a clip where it'll actually fade the black before it goes into
the next clip. And then the next clip will fade in. So at the end of this clip,
I'll faded out to black.
And then when the next clip comes in and will fade this end. So there,
so they don't go solid black for a second.
I feel like when you do the fades, it's more smooth first. You could just cut
As you see. I only put two of the performance shots right there.
And ideally I have about six performance shots,
but I want to keep it more simple for the tutorial.
As far as going from performance shots to b-roll,
that's all up to you and your own taste with this song right here.
I would probably do it like this, where this is about five, six,
seven seconds or so of the performance shots.
And then now to keep it entertaining,
I'm going to go to some B roll or maybe I'll go back to the drone shots and then
I'll go back to the performance shots again,
So
if I wanted to, again, I could do,
we're going to fade out of this clip and then fade into the next clip are
actually, we'll do two b-roll clips in a row.
Let's go back to that drone shot. We'll find a different spot in there.
I'm gonna make the drone shot playback and slow motion and 40%.
And then we'll actually get rid of that,
that fade out of the previous clip and we'll fade in with the
drone shot. So now
that's just the question.
And then we could fade out of that and then fade into the next clip.
That's just the question that we both down
right on beat.
I could see that the beat drops right there and I want to cut right there and go
into the next performance.
So sometimes you can cut on beat where you could see the kicks are.
That works a lot of the time. Sometimes it doesn't have to be,
as you see right here, when we show this scene, there's no cut there,
but it still works good when you watch it.
Just remember to keep it as interesting as you can while you're editing,
don't show the entire music video in the first 30 seconds and keep switching it
up. So let's say you have six different performance shots.
Maybe use two of those,
the first one minute of the song and then use the other two,
the second minute of the song and then use the other two,
the third minute of the song.
So you it's like you continue to introduce shots as you edit it.
And the same thing with the B roll,
don't do too many performance shots back to back to back to back to back,
unless that's the type of video that you're going for.
Just sprinkle in the B roll here.
Some songs you're going to have a bunch of B roll back to back to back in some
songs. You're not most of my videos. I'll do it similar to this where
not for very long. And then boom. Now, now we're watching beat. Well, again,
as far as doing some cool editing effects.
I think that's a whole tutorial on its own. Let me know in the comments,
if you guys want to see some,
I'll show you a couple that aren't crazy at all that I use often in videos,
let's say I have a B roll clip right here.
And so what I'm doing is there's a B roll clip.
I cut it right here and I'm going to make it fast forward.
So I'm changing the playback to 400% only for a split second.
And then I'm going to cut it again and go into slow motion.
And then I'm going to make these two clips overlap for a second.
And then I'm going to go to my transitions. I'm going to go to, to dissolve.
And I'm going to go to additive dissolve, drag that down on that fade.
And what it does is it's going to have a quick white flash.
Yeah.
And then if you want it to last longer, you can stretch it out.
That's kind of cool. If you do one in the beginning, one at the end,
very
simple effect. I'm going to show you guys another one too.
This is just with key frames. Let's find a B roll clip right here.
Let's go to basic.
And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put the clip into slow motion. First,
I'm going to go to the pan and crop,
and I'm going to select the ending of the clip.
I'm gonna add a key frame and I'm honestly just going to zoom in a little bit.
And what it's going to do is when you watch this,
it's going to zoom in and dissolve.
And then one thing you can do is you can twist it a little bit or you can make
it zoom in and you change the positions. Now it's on his face
and then you can do the opposite.
But yet that should be the general concept of editing a music video.
I would say on your intro, it's going to be a lot of what an intro is. You know,
the introduction to the video, you're going to show the scenery.
It'll b-roll slow motion shots to bring the video.
And then it's going to be more performance scene heavy throughout the video.
And at the very end for the outro, a lot of B roll heavy shots again at the end.
Yeah. Next would be rendering the video.
I'm going to do a separate tutorial on my render settings.
The best render settings for music videos in mind will be for Sony Vegas pro
users. Let me know in the comments,
what software you're using to edit music videos on I'm a Sony Vegas gang.
I've just always been that way.
I tried to switch over to premier pro about four years ago when I got my Sony
camera, it was just getting over that learning curve.
I had so many videos to shoot I'm so fluent in use to Sony that I can fly
through a video in a few hours.
And it seemed like it was going to take me a whole day and a half to get done
with a music video and premiere pro. I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
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