Hey, everyone, Kelsey, here and a welcome back to Gail.
Today, I'm going to show you how to cut your video to the beat of the music.
Now there's not one right way, and that's one of the beautiful things
about video editing is there's so many different approaches,
depending on what works best for you as an editor.
So the first method, of course, is the manual way.
And I actually made a video on how to do this, where you press the key
to create markers in your timeline that match the beat.
But not all of us are musicians or know when the exact beat is.
So this is kind of imperfect.
And it also takes a long time, depending on how long the music track is.
And the second way is Accusonus beat marker, which is completely free.
It's a free panel and you can basically import your audio in.
It will create the amount of beats based on the amount of edits that you want,
but this isn't exactly perfect because it won't necessarily
put all of the beats along the entire track,
and there's a paid for a plug in called Beat Edit by Mamo World.
It has a lot more capability, so I'm going to show you the beat
marker in the beat edit so you can decide which will work best for you.
But one thing I just want to say is that these are just starting points, right?
Because let's say you're editing a music video or a commercial,
you don't want necessarily a video edit at each marker
because that's kind of a boring edit.
You're going to play around with it, right?
But the benefit of having the markers is that you can, you know,
roll and edit out to last for four beats.
And because of the beats are there, you'll know exactly where to edit.
All right, so enough.
Talking about it, I want to show you how it works.
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So without further ado,
the time codes are just down below and let's go ahead and jump on it.
So here's the final edit here in the timeline, and you can see that
there's a bunch of markers as I zoom in on the bottom here.
These are single beats and up on the top here on the sequence.
These are half beats that I made because you will see visually in the edit.
In the beginning, it's every two beats and then these clips here,
these are every three beats and then we're going it.
Get super fast here to the rhythm of the music.
It depends on your music.
I did every half beat and I'm not a musician,
so I wouldn't have been able to guess how to do that.
And that's why BeatEdit was super helpful.
Beat marker can do the beats, but Beat Edit
would allow me to cut the beats in half, which is what I needed.
So let me play just from here.
So you can kind of see the rhythm changes from the two beats
to the three beats to every half beat here.
So you saw that it was just
super fast, right, it was like I wouldn't have been able to get that at the right
half feet mathematically without the help of the beat edit.
So let's go ahead and start from scratch here.
So I got this footage from our grid,
but you may be getting footage from a director or a cinematographer.
This footage here is called flamenco, and it's from A02.
This group, the traveling couple that shoots this amazing footage here
that I chose and I wanted to get music
that matched flamenco style of dancing.
So I went on to artless and I just searched for flamenco.
It was the first track that came up.
I just played this one and I was like, This is it?
So that's it,
and I just went over here to click
download, and I downloaded the the wave file just like that,
and it downloads to your computer
and then you can save it into your project file,
which I recommend for organizations.
That way, nothing gets offline in the future.
And you can import it here into your product panel, which is what I
did, and I also have all of the footage from our grid already imported.
Let's show you how to use the beat marker first.
If you are on a budget and you can't afford to edit,
which right now is priced at $99 normally, but sometimes they do have sales,
so keep an eye out during Black Friday.
So let's show you how to start with the free method with beat marker.
So after you install it up to window extensions, beat marker
and this will allow you to import your audio.
You can also select from project files as well.
So I'm going to import the flamenco youth.
And it will analyze my audio.
Now you'll see here that you can change the number of edits right now, just 26,
but that only places markers at towards the end of the track.
What if you want the markers to be all along?
Well, if you want all of the markers in the timeline for every single bit,
you can changes to the maximum, which is 1:34.
And now you'll see that there's a blue line at every single beat and you'll see
and you'll hear a little huff clapping at every single blue marker.
And it's super fast.
And I would not have been able or would not have been able to know
that that is the beat, because flamenco is very complex music,
and I think that this is a great example of how you can use a beat marker.
This free tool to help you identify the beats without being a musician, right?
So let's just play this.
So you can see
it's pretty fast right now before you hit create markers, you want to close this
final edit that we have opened because it'll start to overlay
all of the markers on here and that just happen to me,
which I recommend not doing because it's a huge pain in the box.
You have to like, hit undo like a bunch of times and it's not cool.
So I'm going to close the final edit.
So I'm going to go back to my project, I'm going to right click
and I'm going to duplicate this final.
I don't know. I'll just call this demo.
Open this up.
Clear all markers.
And I'm going to delete the footage, right, because we don't need that.
And the flamenco music truck is here, but let's also clear the markers here.
Markers clear all markers.
There we go.
So now we have the music track here inside of the sequence,
and let's go back to beat marker and we can create markers.
And it
starts to randomly place all of the markers
to the beat inside of this music track inside of the timeline.
You can see as we zoom in that there are markers for every single beat here.
Now, if we wanted to, we could go to our footage
and we could go into the thumbnail icon view.
And this is where we can kind of
see visually everything that's happening in all of the clips.
And what I actually recommend
doing is going through and kind of moving the clips around
where you want them to be in the order that you lay them in the timeline.
So you can move these clips around us by clicking and moving them.
And then what you can do is you can go through
and you can identify in and out points.
So if you want the start of this clip to be the beginning,
you don't have to press eye for Endpoint,
but you can go to the part where you want it to end and press.
Oh, for outpoint. So in and out points.
And you can do this for every single clips you can press eye and then, oh, four in
and on all these clips you can go through and do that
quickly and reorder them until it looks right.
So now what we can do is automate all these clips to the sequence.
You can select the first one and then press shift and select the last clip.
And then rather than dragging and dropping this into the timeline, you can click
on this little icon, automate the sequence and you can use it in selection order.
So the clips, the way that we selected it and at the unnumbered markers, OK.
And it's OK to overwrite edit because there's nothing inside of it.
And you can have ignore audio because it's not relevant
because we're going by the markers and then hit, OK.
Voila!
You can see it's at every single beat.
Now there's not enough footage for the entire clip,
and that's OK because what you can do is you can then go through and be like,
OK, I don't want these clips to be just one beat.
I want to extend it out
so you can go through and decide how long you want these clips to be.
And it's kind of a manual process you'd have to go through
and and manually move all of these over.
In a good way of doing this is by selecting the lock track,
and then you can press a
to go to the tracks like Forward.
And you can shift all these clips over,
then press B to go back to the selection tool
and you can select these clips and move them back into place.
So this is beat marker.
There are some limitations.
There's only the option to have a number of edits.
You can't do have beats, you can't have markers in the timeline
for every two beats.
This is where Beat Edit comes in handy, so I'm going to go up to window
extensions, beat edit by Mama World, and what I'm going to do is get rid
of all the markers that we just made from B marker before we use edit.
So I'm going to go over here and hit undo.
To undo all of those markers.
And then I'm going to delete all of the clips here and back to beat edit.
So here to load in the music, you just hit load music
and it'll tell you, please select exactly one audio file in the active sequence
so I can unlock this and select the audio
file first, then load the music.
And here we have the beats. So.
You could hit this icon here,
create markers to have single beats inside of the timeline
or what you can do is you can say, Oh, I want it, every two beats
so you can go here every two beats and hit select.
And now when we play back.
Then you can select create markers,
and it will place the markers in the timeline every two bits.
If you want to have the footage, automate to sequence.
Once this is done, they can move the play, head to the beginning first
and then go to the footage and select
Automate the sequence. OK.
And it automatically places that starting at this first marker here.
Now you'll notice that some of it doesn't line up perfectly.
And that's because, for example, or in and out
points was too short on this clip, but I can roll this out.
So remember I said in and out points, the out point was a little bit too short
for the length of those two bits, and same with this one that I rolled out
of this first shot. Here is we can pull this out.
It'll start at the beginning.
So it's a much better place, right?
So this is a great starting point to then move the clips around
if you just wanted to use beat edit to have every two bits first,
but then you want to select another group of footage to be every half beat.
So what we can do is we can actually clear the markers,
delete the markers that we have here, and this is a much easier process
than in beat marker and we can redo them in the hospital.
So this is how we do it.
So we go into every one beats again and I'm going to divide it by two.
So it's every half.
And now I'm going to place
these markers into the sequence so I can easily automate
a new group in this half beat, select this icon, create markers.
I'm just going to take a few moments to generate the markers inside the timeline.
By the way, underneath beat info and beat edit,
it'll show you how many beads it generated in the entire timeline.
So 135 heartbeats is what was just placed in the timeline.
So now that they're here, what we can do is
we can go to this bit exactly where this one ended
right here.
So now we're going to go back into our footage folder
and select all the shots that we want to line up at every half beat.
So to do that, you can select your first clip and then press shift
down to the last clip that you want to import into the timeline.
Again, automate to sequence
at unnumbered markers hit OK and Bam.
Now we have a bunch at the half beats, so the reason why I'm showing you
this is that first we did it by every two beats, right?
And now it's half beats, depending on the rhythm.
And of course, then you can go in and delete
a section of it and manually put in some new clips.
But you get the idea here, right?
It's like you can go through and say, Oh, here, I want to place a bunch of clips
at one beat or every three beats, and it's
just a nice way of approaching it and beat edit.
You can also add markers to the clip itself,
so you can select the clip, then go to beat edit.
Let's say that on this clip,
we want to add one beat every one beat subdivide beats off.
There we go.
We want to place these beads
as reference on the actual audio clip, not on the sequence.
So this is where we'll change it to clip markers.
OK? Clip markers and then create markers.
So now inside of our clip here, you can start to see some markers
being generated.
It just added a bunch of single bead on the actual clip.
So that way you can see above are
half beads on the sequence and single beads below.
So this is useful if you want to, for example, make one clip
a single bead or more or two bits.
You can drag this out
and then you can select all of these clips here
and move it over, for example.
This may not be exactly where I would do
it, but I'm just showing you that this is how you would edit this quickly.
Another tip you can press and on your keyboard to create the rolling edit tool.
And let's say you want to move this at a point here at this bead marker.
You can select at a point and move it over.
And now this clip is two beads
so you can use the clip markers and the Sequent markers is the guide.
So that way, when you're making your edits in your rhythm, you're making
sure that it's on beat throughout your entire edit
and you're not kind of going in blind guessing where all of the edits are.
So that's how I was able to go through and build
my final edit, which I'll pull up again,
which you can see has this different rhythm to it throughout.
And so that's how you can use, beat, edit or beat marker
to edit to the beat and help guide your edit .
So overall, you can use these beat markers to help get you started in your edit,
but you may need to move clips around, pulled out and edit for a few more beats.
It all depends on your subjective point of view.
You may need to swap, you know, videos because you're building a story
or the director says, Oh, I want this shot to go hear it.
It's a process with editing.
It's not just automate all of these video clips to the sequence and you're done.
It's there's a lot more that goes into an edit.
And sometimes I'll spend an hour, a couple of hours
just moving clips around until I feel like it fits, right?
And you know, if you have a better workflow, let me know what you use.
Let me know what you think about beat, edit or beat Mark.
Or if you're going to use that, just leave a comment below.
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keep creating better video with Gal.
See you next time. Bye.