Slow Music Editing HELP

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Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Rice » Fri May 28, 2010 6:23 pm

When editing to slow music, would you do crossfades for the different tunes to transition it or would you do masks? And if there is another way to do it please post here. C:
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Kimberly » Fri May 28, 2010 6:33 pm

Well it depends actually.. Everyone has their own way of editing.

What kinda tunes are you talking about.. ? For me, I use cuts or crossfades. I don't mask becasue I'm a lazybum.
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby OtakuGray » Fri May 28, 2010 6:35 pm

Depends on the song imo.

For most emotion tho, soft cuts are best. If you jump around a lot or skip scenes with a hard cut, people are gonna have a harder time feeling the emotion in ur amv.
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby MycathatesyouAMV » Fri May 28, 2010 6:57 pm

Depends on the mood your going for. Masking transitions would tend to not fit as well in slower paced AMVs imo.
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Nya-chan Production » Fri May 28, 2010 8:12 pm

I just whip koopiskeva and he makes it |:
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Megamom » Fri May 28, 2010 9:18 pm

Look koopiskeva's videos!!!
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby OtakuGray » Fri May 28, 2010 10:47 pm

Nya-chan Production wrote:I just whip koopiskeva and he makes it |:

Megamom wrote:Look koopiskeva's videos!!!


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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Phantasmagoriat » Fri May 28, 2010 11:48 pm

Personally, I think the speed of the music and the speed of your editing should blend naturally. Slower music does not mean slower editing, it just tends to be slower because the notes come at longer intervals. So to answer your question, it doesn't really matter as long as you pay attention to the way the music progresses. For this reason fades [both crossfades and fades to black] tend to be pretty common because you can make them last just as long as a fading note or stanza or whatever you want to edit to. Likewise, if you want to mask, it tends to work best if your mask lasts for just as long as what you are editing to.
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby GH » Sat May 29, 2010 11:47 pm

i'd suggest not incorporating masking for slow editing/emotion, it usually attracts too much attention and chops the flow, but that's just my opinion. messing with the brightness usually works well, and blurs too. i also wouldn't abuse black fades, but crossfades are pretty necessary.
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Vivaldi » Sun May 30, 2010 12:48 am

Hard cuts actually work fine with slow vids, it's the pace of the clips themselves that matter the most. Only use crossfades if you actually have a reason to: because it matches a peculiar timbre or shift in the music, or because you feel it's important that two clips be seen in context of one another.
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Fall_Child42 » Sun May 30, 2010 11:02 am

blur fade

blur fade

blur fade

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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Chemikilla » Sun May 30, 2010 5:51 pm

Hard cuts always, only use soft cuts if you're an overly expressive pretentious hipster emo doucebag.

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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby OtakuGray » Sun May 30, 2010 5:53 pm

Chemikilla wrote:Hard cuts always, only use soft cuts if you're an overly expressive pretentious hipster emo doucebag.

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I dont think ive ever seen an emotional vid with hard cuts that i really got into :/
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby LittleAtari » Mon May 31, 2010 2:10 am

OtakuGray wrote:
Chemikilla wrote:Hard cuts always, only use soft cuts if you're an overly expressive pretentious hipster emo doucebag.

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I dont think ive ever seen an emotional vid with hard cuts that i really got into :/

I think both responses here are bleh.

honestly, cuts and transitions apply on everything going on in the sources used (both audio and video). You cant define a hard cuts or cross fades as emotional. It depends on how they're used in the video. Sometimes a fade just syncs better than a hard cut because the music calls for it. Sometimes the motion of the scenes needs a hard cut or a cross fade

A video that i like with a lot of crossfades: Sunlight by Silk_SK

A video that I like with a lot of hard cuts: The Dreamer by ExSphere

^both these videos are sentimental and one of them is slow paced.
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby Pie Row Maniac » Wed Jun 02, 2010 4:00 am

Dr.Dinosaur wrote:blur fade

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