
The song I'm using is relatively rhythmic. In particular there is a repeated synth/percussion line in otherwise "low" points of the song (no lyrics or anything else going on) that I feel like I should use for some sort of syncing. It repeats at maaaaany many points throughout the song. And for most of those instances, the clips I wanted to use did have points in them that were keyed to those beats, no problem. (Lightning strikes and whatnot.)
But... many of the other clips don't have anything to sync to. They're usually smooth zoom-ins of something or other (not my zooming, the source's).
And my problem is, do I attempt to add something, some sort of distortion or something, to key into those beats, since there's nothing going on in the source to sync to it? And if so what do I do? I've tried about six different effects so far (cutting to black, changing the brightness, warping, zooming in and then back, etc.) but none of them seem like they FIT that much. (I wanted to get an effect like the "camera" was shaking, but I haven't figured out how to do that yet. I'd hate to try and get it wrong. :p)
So the essential question is, leave the smooth clip as is or distort it, and if so, what recommendations for a distortion might a more experienced editor make?
If anyone wants to view an intentionally low-quality preview version of this video just for this purpose, it can be downloaded (directly) here:
<a href="http://uvl.iwarp.com/projects/deadofnighttest.avi">"I Always Cheered for the Villains" **Preview**</a>
If the link breaks, it probably means I took it down... or... something weird happened with my server. (It WAS being a twerp when I was uploading, so you never know.)
Details about the video:
Title: "I Always Cheered for the Villains"
Genre: Humor, character profile of sorts
Source: Final Fantasy 5 through 9, spoilers for 6 through 9; Depeche Mode, "The Dead of Night"
Codec: DivX;-) AVI (yes yes, I'll export it as something else for the final cut).
Size: 14.6MB.
The parts I am mostly concerned about are:
- Shot of Jenova around 1:45
- Shot of ghosts right after that
- Shot of winged Kefka around 2:15, the second half of that clip
- Shot of Lunatic Pandora around 3:30
Please don't snipe at me over the quality, because I KNOW it's bad. ;P That's so this test wouldn't eat up the bandwidth I'll need for the actual video.
Any comments about that particular problem would be greatly appreciated. There are still a couple more tweaks I have to make to the rest of the video, so I apologize for that. (If you have problems with the rest of the vid, um... that's what the opinion list will be for when it's actually out. ^_^; )
Hope this made sense. Thanks in advance!