everyone edits the video, but what about the audio?

[u_queen]

This site is about three leters: Anime Music Videos. I know that because of the video we put more effort to edit the anime, but as editors we should also know about editing audio.

I edit the songs when they're too long, I cut chorus and even verses in order to get what I want for some videos (and I'm not sure if someone noticed it ). I even listened once a song edited to remove the rude words. It's not the song itself what makes a video amazing but the feeling it inspires as a whole.

[BasharOfTheAges]

I dont mean cutting out a verse or blending two songs together, i mean actually changing the sound of the song itself.

An unfortunate amount of posters didn't read/understand this sentence.

An unfortunate amount of posters don't read or don't understand the important parts of just about every thread in General AMV that gets to be over a page long. They all think it's about the same half-dozen topics that crop up constantly that everyone gets tunnel vision and sees what they want to see so they can legitimize posting what they want to post.

[Epical Zamora]

Heh, I didn't notice that either. XD

In that case, stay the hell away from it unless you're a professional and know what you're doing. It could end up as a serious mess, even if you're good at sound editing.

[Moonie]

I've done speeding up and slowing down audio alot in all my sound effect amv series
It works well for stuff like that.
I never tried it for changing the speed of a song in an AMV though.
Usually that makes it sound really strange >_<

[Scintilla]

A lot of orchestral music makes huge jumps in volume levels that can't really be accommodated in an AMV, because viewers expect to be able to hear the music clearly at all times and not have to fiddle with the volume controls every 30 seconds.

Thank you.

[Epical Zamora]

A lot of orchestral music makes huge jumps in volume levels that can't really be accommodated in an AMV, because viewers expect to be able to hear the music clearly at all times and not have to fiddle with the volume controls every 30 seconds.

Thank you.

Not only that, but orchestral tracks tend to have a build up, with more instruments and intensity building over the course of the song. When you try to edit a segement out of that sort of sound, the listener notices the jump.

[Knowname]

I dont mean cutting out a verse or blending two songs together, i mean actually changing the sound of the song itself.

An unfortunate amount of posters didn't read/understand this sentence.

lawl!! OMG! *hides face in shame*

[DriftRoot]

A lot of orchestral music makes huge jumps in volume levels that can't really be accommodated in an AMV, because viewers expect to be able to hear the music clearly at all times and not have to fiddle with the volume controls every 30 seconds.

Thank you.

You're welcome. What'll also happen, aside from people twitching their volume controls, is you'll get complaints that the quality of your audio was crappy, even if it's a straight rip off a CD. It takes a certain amount of punch out of a piece if you normalize the levels...but there's not much choice.

Not only that, but orchestral tracks tend to have a build up, with more instruments and intensity building over the course of the song. When you try to edit a segement out of that sort of sound, the listener notices the jump.

Yeap, there's a heck of a lot more going on in most orchestral pieces than today's Top of the Pop Chart hits. It can be pretty difficult to CHANGE THE MUSIC - NOT SIMPLY CUT OUT SOME VERSES - to make it flow better, if you did have to make edits.

[Adv1sor]

If you don't at least consider editing the song then you're only doing half the job.

You wouldn't put in five minutes of unedited video just because you really like that scene, would you?

Personally, I think I've edited every song in every one of my AMVs. Some of them came out quite well while some sound like they were butchered, (which I guess they were).

As editors, we create neither music nor video. We edit both to create something new. If you don't at least consider editing the song then you're only doing half the job.

[JaddziaDax]

now I don't think thats a fair statement: "If you don't at least consider editing the song then you're only doing half the job."

Some people choose songs based on the whole song and not just part of it, because they can edit to the WHOLE SONG... and yea, if I saw a 5 min scene I thought went well with it I'd lay it down on the timeline anyways.

if we edited songs like we edit visual footage you would get something that sounds like little blips of sound all spliced together... have you ever watched an amv with the sound off? most of them don't make sense