Edit to the Beat: Choose the Perfect Music for Your Video

1. Introduction: As on Zimmer. So great music composer who wrote the original music for the ranking radiator inception or even doing saves. Music plays an essential part in a movie ends. That's also true for other kinds of videos such as documentary, commercial, or even videos that we find on TikTok or Instagram. I'm ****** and I'm delighted to see you in this class edit to the beat for memorable videos. I'm French, did my accent give it away? I'm also a designer and a video maker. As long as I can remember, I've always loved making videos. I first started using my current past camera to do stop motion using my Legos. And more recently I did a documentary that I directed around the world talking about food security. I'm always trying to learn new tools to help me bring my ideas to life and bring them to the screen. If over the years the editing software has their cameras or even broadcasting platform that I use, I've evolved. There is one thing that never changed the impotence I give to music in my editing work in this course, I want to share with you my methodology to find the right music for the video you want to make to disease, we will put it in three steps. First, we will focus on the path before the shoot. We will see how to prepare and anticipate the condition of the shoot so that you can project yourself in the making of your videos. Then we will move on to the part during the show. At this point, you will already start to see what your final result might look like. Finally, we will look at the editing and how to search fine and choose the ID on music for your video. And I will take this opportunity to share with you my edit to the beat editing process. This class is open to everyone and every level, if you're new to editing or if you have some more background and experience, I'm sure you can find something that will help you out in your editing process. So without further ado, if you to want to choose the perfect music to make memorable videos, I see in cats. 2. Project: Best way to learn and understand is to put into practice what we would see in this class. And for that, we're going to do a project. For this project, I would like you to do a video in which music is really important and share it with the rest of the gas. It could be a video credit, an intro, a feeder sequence, fiction scene, video for TikTok, Instagram. Anything. If you don't have enough material to make a video, I will share with you some footage in the resource section. For those of you who wants to go a bit further, I will share with you a bonus to unlock. At the end of this class, I look forward to seeing what you would produce and share. I will give you feedback on what you've created. And also, I strongly encourage you to look at and Command or those people work. This is important to develop your critical thinking and also to own your skills. Personally, I've been teaching for more than five years in an international design master program. Whether liked the most about teaching more than sharing my knowledge, are seeing my student progress is that I evolve in return thanks to their work. Does that being said, let's move on to the next part. 3. Before Filming: Your work and in some ways your video start way before the shooting. They are different elements that you need to consider and anticipate in order to prepare you as best as possible, whatever kind of video you are going to make, an interview, a short movie are real. You will have to define plays that music would play in the final result. Would it be on the background or will it be? Once you have defined this part, you can look into the condition of the feed me. What condition will use shooting? Ask yourself the right question before I answer that you avoid unpleasant surprises when you shoot indoor or outdoor. If you are shooting in a studio or indoors, you can more easily control and manage light and will not be dependent on the weather. Solo. Whether you are shooting solo or with a team, your organization will not be the same. If you are alone, you may have to plan to be in charge of the sound and image. How long it should last. A few minutes, an hour, or several days. It's not the same thing. And the logistic of filming will have to be done accordingly. The more you are able to define the different elements. More efficient you can be when you shoot in the resources I would share with you a small and non-exhaustive list of the thing you can consider before shooting, depending on your project, you can also rely on a script or cerebral to help you visualize the image that you want. This can also be the opportunity for you to start thinking about the atmosphere and the emotion you want to convey through your videos to help you. Don't hesitate to have some references in mind. If you want to make a video for Instagram or TikTok, you have an infinite amount of references. You can choose to simply reproduce them by using the same music and just adding and editing on your own images for the rest. Either it's a documentary of log of fiction. Look around. Today on Internet, you have access to an amazing catalog of content. Use it, choose your favorite documentary, your favorite movie, and watch them again. But this time, paid very particular attention to the place of the music in the editing. More prepared video, you can also choose to use a script, also come up with a storyboard before the shooting. This will allow you to make a list of the shot and sequences you want to shoot. This way, you will have a roadmap refer to throughout the shoot. It should allow you to know what subject to talk about in the interview, what kind of shots to use to illustrate certain sequences and when to shoot those sequences, preparing your shirt will allow you to visualize it and also to project yourself into it. 4. While Filming: Once your eyes are location and I got into your preparation, try to think about the shot that you're going to make and how they will look like together when you will do the editing. If you have been able to go to the location beforehand to do some location scouting, you can already define where to shoot some of the footage, which shots to take to get all the footage you need. A general shot, medium shot, close up. We not have the same use when you are editing. Adding different types of shots at hand will allow you to pace your editing with the music. You can also think of certain transition with camera movements, traveling pen in Austin shot. This will allow you to have a bank of image from which you can grow, if possible, try to make a selection of your shot when you are filming. This is where defining the length of the shoot when you are preparing It can be useful if you know that you will have breaks. Take advantage of that to make an initial selection of your shots if you're filming is very short, make the solution as soon as possible at the end of the filming so that it's still fresh in your mind. Depending on your equipment, you may want to bookmark some of them. Otherwise, when exporting to your hard drive or cloud or computer, you can already organized your shots in different folders of label and tags. Also take care to delete shots that are not good, whether they are blurry, but the frame not stable enough, etc. Doing the selection work during the filming will make it easier for you to edit and to direct. It will also help you to have the atmosphere I was filming and of the potential video in mind. The music should help you to set a mood in your videos. I trusted you. It's up to you to fill the atmosphere on the set gives a person you are interviewing is calm and serious. You will not convey this on the screen in the same way as someone with very extroverted and full of energy, music can underline the psychology of the people in the picture. The same applies to the atmosphere of the place or a moment. The discovery of a deserted neighborhood at night or sunrise on the beach does not have the same energy. The atmosphere is directly linked with the emotion you wish to make people feel when they discover final version of fluidity. 5. Editing: Find the Music: You have your footage, your direction is done. You nosy emotion you want to convey in your video. Now it's time to go on editing. In my opinion, before Anything else, you must now choose your music. To choose it. You have to know where to look for it. Today, you have access to different type of platform with royalty free music. However, be careful to check the veracity of platform and the licenses of the music they offer to avoid infringing on the rights of authors are adding new video, demagnetize and delete it on YouTube, e.g. personally, I have an account on a platform called storybooks that gives me access to music and video content. But on this course, I'm going to talk about the YouTube audio library. To access the YouTube audio library, you need a YouTube account. If you don't have YouTube accounts, that's fine. Stick with me as all the different platform for music works the same way, you will still get to understand how to choose your music. Once a new account, click on the hamburger menu, the three dashes at the top left and click on the Creator Studio icon. Then in the drop-down menu, scroll down to Audio Library. The interface looked like this. Music title, music genre, mood at this Name, Duration, licensed type, and date added. You also have the play button and the style option to book my music. As a general rule to begin your search, you will start by using the genre and mood filter. Some platform also allow you to search by instrument, tempo, music with or without lyrics, as we saw earlier, you need to think about the mood you want to set in your videos to start by choosing the mood that best represents what you want. Once you have chosen a mood or moods, you can start listening to the songs. You can look at the music genre and see which one suits you best by adding it to the search criteria, the name of the music, and also app you choose. If you're editing a sunrise and a song is called Rising Sun, it might just work. This is where the long and tedious work begins for you to find these rare cham. It's a little bit like finding a needle in a haystack. I don't know. Is this expression exist in English, but in French, it means that it's complicated to find what you're looking for. To avoid listening to the Wilson, I recommend you to proceed. It's kind of a secret. Free to do it. It's really up to you. I think it's good to avoid listening to the word song. I recommend you to proceed as follows. Listen to the first few seconds of a song, then in the middle, and finally, the end. Some platform also allow you to see the sound wave was a song which are used to send directly to certain paths, such as a path that builds to crescendo, also drop. That is the climax of the song. If you want to have music appears red when bookmark the tracks, you like to make a pre-selection and do a listening before choosing the tracks you are going to download. Another important point is whether or not you need to attribute yet. In some cases, in exchange for royalty-free use, you will be asked to mention and includes the name of the track and z-axis in the credit of your video. 6. Edit to the Beat: You have uploaded all of your footage and your music. I will now cover as a process to follow for iMovie and call me a call on computer and in short, MGN on smartphone. Before starting, you have to define how long is your video going to last to train the music accordingly. N choose, n is a part of it that you want to use. Usually when you put the music on the timeline, you can already see the waveform and identify the peak of the sound. Usually those peak matched with the beat of the music. And that is what we're looking for. According to the software you are using, you have different ways of marking the bits to help you edit to the beat. Let's see the different options for this example. I'm going to use the footage that you can find in the resources section. It's videos I made during one of my trip in the Smoky Mountain National Park in the US. It was at the beginning of fall and all the leaf threatening yellow and red. It was amazingly beautiful and peaceful. And so that's the kind of mood I want to share in the video. So that's why I've chosen the music, is the ODU library wager with angels for a bright mode. It is a country and for genre. And usually country and folk is a good genera that you can use for this kind of mood. Let's start with desktop software. Imovie, Anthony apple. Imovie, you can spot some peak. And then the bid pretty easily as the sound wave is coloured, look for the year or right path to identify the pigs. Then to mark them, plays the play head on the pigs and press M, a purple marker will appear. Repeat that process all through the video. Then drag your video clips on your timeline and trim them using those marks. We can get the clips using command B. If you need to address the length of the video clips, drag them until you reach the malloc. It is magnetize and if we make it easier for you to adjust and align it precisely, if needed, you can move the mask by clicking on it, holding and dragging it. You can also remove them by clicking on it. And it seems the erase button. Let's see now in from your pro, Premiere Pro works pretty much the same way as iMovie. You can also put marks on your timeline to add, to trim and align your clips with the beat of the music. You can do it in two different ways. In Tanya. First, directly underneath the file in the source monitor, we can place them as pristine as the N key and then flex the music on the timeline and the mark will appear at the bottom of the waveform to add piu positions the playhead precisely on the Mac movie too wide pressing Shift to magnetize it and make it stop on the Mac. You can eat the empty while holding Shift to reach the next map directly. The other way to do it is by adding the mark directly in the timeline as your music to the timeline and the max directly on the timeline by pressing M, Then you can add your video clips and treat them accordingly. For either way, you can move the max by clicking, holding, and dragging them along the timeline, either directly on the source monitor or on the timeline. Let's now get to the mobile apps, such as in shot of yen. In such apps usually have a built-in function to map the bits that are pretty handy in insert when you have selected your music and it is on the timeline, you can trim it by double-clicking it. You can adjust the volume of the track and add a fade in and fade out effect when the track is selected. Go to the beat option. This will alert to monitor track easily, press Play, and use the plus green button to add a Mac when needed to MC, if you are well on the beat, play it again. And the white dot created as a mark will grow as the play head goes over it and add to see if it matches the music. To remove a Mac, place the playhead over it and press the green button. After you're done placing your mark, press the Check button and go back to your timeline. You can see the white dots appear on the music track. You can easily train the video clip by dragging them on the Mac as they are magnetize. The end. It works pretty much the same way, but she will have even more option to add few agile max. When you click to add a music, you can choose from the different library you have and select the tracks you want. You can trim it, adjust the volume and add fading in and out ethics. Then click on the bits. First of all, you can choose to place a track on normal speed of speed to help you spot to bits. Then add the mark by eating is a red button with the flag. As you can see, the mark and numbered. And if you need to move or remove a Mac, click on it and you will have four different options. The Play button allows you to listen only to that mark to see if it's widespread. The arrows move them forward or backward, and the trash icon remove them. Once you're done adding your max value to process and go back to your timeline. You can trim your videos keeps easily as the mark I might entice. You can also use the bits to add some effect like a change in color grading or even to add text appear on the screen. So you are now able to add marks and edit your video to the bits. 7. Conclusion: This course is not over all know, IRR to label. Every good things come to an end of this course is now over. Thank you for taking it. Now that you know more about how to prepare the filming, anticipates the editing, and choose the perfect music for your videos. It's up to you to go out there and to make great videos using the perfect music. I look forward to seeing all of your projects and your questions so that I can answer them and give you feedback. Please feel free to leave a comment and feedback about this course so that I can make it evolve in the best way possible to meet your expectations and your needs. I see you soon for another class and until then, take care. Hi. 8. Bonus: You're still here, right? So as you can see, I was just having my after class porridge. Maybe it can make a video about it in class on Skillshare. I don't know, but that's another point. So I guess if you're still here is because you are interested in getting the bonus content I have for you. Okay. So I have a confession to make. I never told you that before, but I'm a big fan of gamification and escape games. So this is how it's going to work. It's actually pretty simple. You just go in the resources section, you will download the file bonus. And as you can see, it's actually a PDF that is protected by a password. You guessed it. You would have to find that password. To find that password, you will have together all the different Easter eggs scattered in all the different video of that gas is you're right. Okay. Because I'm pretty good. Professor. I give you a hint to get all the basket together. It's pretty easy. You just have to put them in the order in which they appear in the videos. Put them together and write it down. Lowercase, no spaces, easy, right? And if you do so, you will have access to a selection of music and also VN video templates. Pretty cool, right? Good luck.