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Premiere Pro - Cut to the Beat
This was a very tedious video to make. To begin, I chose a song. I decided to go with "Stay By My Side", a song by the Indie Musician "Miracle of Sound". Next, I had to listen to the song in Premiere Pro (I imported the song into the program, made a sequence, and dragged it onto the timeline). Every time I heard a beat, I pressed the M key, creating a marker. Once I got to the end of the song, I then went through everything frame by frame, looking for any beats I may have missed and moving the markers close to the beats so they happen on the right frame. This was very challenging, as the song ended up being much quicker than I remembered, and as such, I was putting markers down every 5 frames sometimes (at 30 FPS, to clarify, so it wasn't too fast, but it was still pretty fast). In addition to the beats being plentiful, they were also very quiet while listening frame by frame, and they tended to blend into the melody.
Eventually, I got all the markers onto the beats that I personally could hear, so I brought in my images. I was on a trip to Europe, recently, so I had plenty of photos to choose from. I ended up using almost all of the photos I had taken (over 700 photos, mind you).
After I added the photos in using the "Automate to Sequence" option, found at the bottom of the assembly window, the program started running very slowly, and I was unable to do anything else with the video. I even tried adding a transition effect, and that crashed it, and while it did save beforehand, it was unable to find my images, so I had to delete those ones in the timeline and import some new ones and automate them to sequence again. I repeated these steps several times until I finally got the photos imported again, and not wanting to risk spending more time on this project only to have it break again after already spending all week placing the markers, I exported what I could and published it to YouTube.
After I rendered the video, I decided to go back and add the title, using the already rendered video rather than each individual image (which turned out to be extremely high resolution for whatever reason). This allowed me to successfully add the title card, however the transition effects between images remain impossible.
Eventually, I got all the markers onto the beats that I personally could hear, so I brought in my images. I was on a trip to Europe, recently, so I had plenty of photos to choose from. I ended up using almost all of the photos I had taken (over 700 photos, mind you).
After I added the photos in using the "Automate to Sequence" option, found at the bottom of the assembly window, the program started running very slowly, and I was unable to do anything else with the video. I even tried adding a transition effect, and that crashed it, and while it did save beforehand, it was unable to find my images, so I had to delete those ones in the timeline and import some new ones and automate them to sequence again. I repeated these steps several times until I finally got the photos imported again, and not wanting to risk spending more time on this project only to have it break again after already spending all week placing the markers, I exported what I could and published it to YouTube.
After I rendered the video, I decided to go back and add the title, using the already rendered video rather than each individual image (which turned out to be extremely high resolution for whatever reason). This allowed me to successfully add the title card, however the transition effects between images remain impossible.
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