Syncing Video/Images to Music

I need something for this. Windows Movie Maker is okay for videos where syncing doesn't matter, but for anything where I want imagery to fit the tempo/change on a specific beat it just doesn't cut it

gooo

Sony Vegas lets you set the grid to bpm in different time signatures. Only thing I could figure out that was remotely even close to as cool as that is with premiere you could tap the marker creation button while playing a song and if your sound card buffer rate was low enough it would be in your own rhythm groove with the audio.

I suggest downloading Sony Vegas for free while you still can. It's getting more and more difficult to obtain treasure on these interwebs, booty be getting harder and harder to come by matey.

Or you could be really ethical and find a cheap competitive alternative and buy it. I'm currently not that cool. Someday I will be an ethical computer user.

For a live gig earlier this year I made a VJ set with Vjamm which I then routed through MIDI Yoke into Ableton Live and set up dummy MIDI clips to sync the video in time with the music. Unfortunately it's still a bit buggy and can take quite a bit of time to set things up properly, but for what I wanted at the time it did the job, so I'd definitely check it out.

Also just be warned if you're gonna buy it the cheap version doesn't allow to you record the output, so if you're thinking of putting up videos on to Youtube and that you're going to need to get the full pro version.

I found out the other day "Reaper" can export video

its great for audio editing and easy to sync things - so if you import a video in which to sample, it will, as predicted, also edit the video (seeing as the video and audio tracks are the same thing)

so as long as you have the Video window enabled you could find yourself accidentally creating these audio/video sync up vids

you can get the full program on free trial for 30days.

Crypto are you looking to vj stuff live, or are you just looking for a way to edit videos to music precisely (ie less than 1 frame increments)?

I hate wmm, but there should be a way to edit precisely in windows movie maker, do you have newest one?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/get-movie-maker

Other video editing apps have you tried any free trials of...

adobe premiere

adobe after effects

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production.html

lightworks (has free version)

http://www.lwks.com/

avid media composer 6

http://apps.avid.com/media-composer-trial/

free (haven't tried) videopad

http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html

vjing check out:

http://resolume.com/

http://cycling74.com/

http://www.modul8.ch/

http://www.vjamm.com/

http://www.neuromixer.com/product-avmixer.php

http://vvvv.org/

http://aestesis.eu/

  On 8/16/2012 at 8:01 AM, apeterlives said:

Crypto are you looking to vj stuff live, or are you just looking for a way to edit videos to music precisely (ie less than 1 frame increments)?

For now I just want to make videos for a bunch of tracks without having to spend ages trying to sync things to a general tempo. A video editor with bpm would probably be just what I need

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I hate wmm, but there should be a way to edit precisely in windows movie maker, do you have newest one?

I actually find the new one even less intuitive than what XP had, but maybe that's because I just have W7 Starter Edition

Thanks for the suggestions, dudes. I'll check some of these programs out & see if they do my needs

  On 8/16/2012 at 7:34 PM, Cryptowen said:

  On 8/16/2012 at 8:01 AM, apeterlives said:

Crypto are you looking to vj stuff live, or are you just looking for a way to edit videos to music precisely (ie less than 1 frame increments)?

For now I just want to make videos for a bunch of tracks without having to spend ages trying to sync things to a general tempo. A video editor with bpm would probably be just what I need

Hmmmm... fyi, it won't look anywhere as good as actual editing. Plus, there's a great sense of satisfaction in editing video to music and making it look sweeet

^well really what I want is just something way more precise than WMM. With WMM I usually have to redo a cut several times to make it sync with a change in music, & anything involving lots of cuts over the course of a couple seconds is pretty much a no-go.

oi!

the VideoPad Video Editor really is a nice little tool. load in your footage( eats almost everything) and your music and start cutting away. it's really quite easy..installation though is a bit annoying (browser tool bar!!!..in this day and age..lmao)

just unselect this nonsense and you are fine

~io

"A video editor with bpm would probably be just what I need"

check out this tool

http://www.vjamm.com...bpm.php?lang=en

or even better http://zambari.info/av_calc.php

bpm = (60 * fps) / fpb

where bpm = beats per min

fps = frames per second

fpb = frames per beat

Unless you're vjing I think editing has to be approached as more of a feel than a science though. What can be cool is establishing new patterns with the cutting outside the bpm at times, can change interpretation. Like take chris cunningham when he's vjing it's much simplier cuts

http://vimeo.com/2071689

http://vimeo.com/2071790

when compared to the rubber johnny mix

http://vimeo.com/14177011

idk... if I were you i'd try to get ahold of adobe premiere/aftereffects (free trial, reinstall after month) http://www.adobe.com...production.html learn it and go wild