Something Vid-like This Way Comes: Internal Motion

It's amazing what you can learn just by listening to the music.

I don't know why but it's really hard for me to hear lyrics unless I've read them first. It might be due to the fact that English isn't my first language, though it's my *best* language, it's difficult for me to recognize some phonemes, the "r" and "l" sounds in particular.

Anyhoo, in that regard I treat vocals as another instrument, which is made easier by the fact that you can get a "cheat sheet" for this instrument by looking up the lyrics online.

Sadly, this is not possibly for the other instruments. About the closest you can get is probably the "waveform" in Premiere.

Foolproof Guide to Cutting on Beat *Every* *Time*

1) Open Waveform
2) Find beat
3) Cut 3 frames before
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This works 'cause your eyes are slightly slower than your ears and it gives time for everything to catch up.

This also works really really well on fades. I don't know why it works on fades (because technically it's only a small difference the first three frames of the fade) but it's worked really well everytime.

Learned via sisabet via sockkpuppett via Carol S. =)

Through the above method you can get

Internal Movement On Beat =)

This is basically how I do it:

1) Find point of maximum extension in your clip
(ie. the point where a moment begins or ends, the beginning of a blink, the point of impact, the most stretched out part of a kick...)
2) Cut the clip at the point of max extension
(now you have two clips, 1st half of lead-up movement and 2nd half of denouement)
3) Find the beat where you want the action to fall
4) Put 2nd half of clip three frames before the beat.
5) Drop 1st half of clip just before the 2nd half making sure NOT to overlapp
6) Use the 'stretch' tool to make the far ends of the clips fall on beat too.
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