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"What's the great secret to success as a comedia--" "Timing!"
So I was telling someone about how I cut vids, and discovered to my great amazement that possibly not everyone in the world already knows all about working with music and cutting to time and synching to internal movement and like that.
See, I used to do lights for live music acts, and while you won't necessarily learn anything about music doing that, the one thing that you absolutely must learn is how to find the beat of a song within the first few bars and hang onto it for dear life through any number of distractions; the singer can forget a verse, the guitarist can fall over drunk, the drummer can break a stick, somebody can pour cold beer down your back, half of your grid can short out, but you MUST stay on that beat until the end of the song.
And you must be able to take that beat and transform it into a light show that works, on the fly, using whatever lights you've got; it needs to come into your brain as music and come out your fingers as a thing of visual beauty. Ok, as a visual thing that does not suck.
When I started vidding, I think that is the one thing that saw me through any amount of technical ignorance, got me past any number of mistakes, and generally allowed me to pull off a vid I'm still not ashamed of on my first try; I can keep the beat, and I was already predisposed to think of a clip as a collection of variously coloured moving lights, with informational content.
So for what it's worth and with much disclaiming, here is ( Ye Olde Lighting Tech's Guide To Cutting And Synching Footage )
So I was telling someone about how I cut vids, and discovered to my great amazement that possibly not everyone in the world already knows all about working with music and cutting to time and synching to internal movement and like that.
See, I used to do lights for live music acts, and while you won't necessarily learn anything about music doing that, the one thing that you absolutely must learn is how to find the beat of a song within the first few bars and hang onto it for dear life through any number of distractions; the singer can forget a verse, the guitarist can fall over drunk, the drummer can break a stick, somebody can pour cold beer down your back, half of your grid can short out, but you MUST stay on that beat until the end of the song.
And you must be able to take that beat and transform it into a light show that works, on the fly, using whatever lights you've got; it needs to come into your brain as music and come out your fingers as a thing of visual beauty. Ok, as a visual thing that does not suck.
When I started vidding, I think that is the one thing that saw me through any amount of technical ignorance, got me past any number of mistakes, and generally allowed me to pull off a vid I'm still not ashamed of on my first try; I can keep the beat, and I was already predisposed to think of a clip as a collection of variously coloured moving lights, with informational content.
So for what it's worth and with much disclaiming, here is ( Ye Olde Lighting Tech's Guide To Cutting And Synching Footage )
