Slow Music Editing HELP

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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby outlawed » Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:22 am

Instead of asking what specifics are best you are better off learning concepts that can be applied in general situations and then determining what works best for your specific needs. This will lead to better creativity. You may find that by approaching it in this manner you come up with a unique take on things that is rarely used by AMV creators. At the least you will be forced to consider something more than "there is a drum beat; obviously I must transition RIGHT THE FUCK NOW for no discernible reason"

By no means are these everything or perfectly written but they do give a quick and dirty idea of some film editing concepts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_editing

IMO if you want to be a real editing Baller then the less you do the better. Check out the opening sequence of Robert Altman's "The Player" (one of my favorite films).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epB5Z6ijpk
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Re: Slow Music Editing HELP

Postby CrackTheSky » Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:17 am

Overuse of crossfades gets really, really annoying. That said, with slow songs crossfades are much easier to do. Over the years my personal taste has come to favor hard cuts pretty much always, just because when they're used correctly (and yes, they can be used correctly in slow videos), they tend to help the video flow better than crossfades do. However, realize that with slow music, using hard cuts is something of an art, in the sense that if you just throw hard cuts in haphazardly, the video can start to look really sloppy really quickly (whereas you can tend to get away with haphazard crossfades).

When this topic comes up I always end up mentioning this video:


In my opinion, crossfades look best when they're longer (i.e. the two clips overlap for a second and a half or more). Short (7-20 frame) crossfades look really crappy in my opinion, except in certain situations. Typically if you're going to make a crossfade that short, you might as well just do a hard cut.
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