Slow Music Editing HELP

[Rice]

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:

[Kimberly]

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.

[OtakuGray]

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.

[MycathatesyouAMV]

Depends on the mood your going for. Masking transitions would tend to not fit as well in slower paced AMVs imo.

[Nya-chan Production]

I just whip koopiskeva and he makes it |:

[Megamom]

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[OtakuGray]

I just whip koopiskeva and he makes it |:

Look koopiskeva's videos!!!

[Phantasmagoriat]

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.

[GH]

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.

[Vivaldi]

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.