From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Cutting with Music
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Determining the tempo of the music and the strategy for the edit - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Cutting with Music
Determining the tempo of the music and the strategy for the edit
- Cutting a musical montage requires a bit more finesse than cutting a slideshow but when done well it can be extremely rewarding. In this set of lessons, we're going to cut a high energy piece using footage of skateboarders breaking the laws of physics and hopefully nothing more. Before I get started I want to review my footage and then listen to the music cut and start thinking of my attack plan in my head. (upbeat rock music) So, I'm trying to get a feel for how the music works and where it slows down and where it picks up. Then, I'm gonna open up the footage that I have, I'm gonna press the tilde key and simply hover scrub through the images, kinda get a feel of what I have to work with. I have some really nice wipeouts here and I have kinda some cool jumps, this looks like it's precut. Another angle of the same jump. There's a lot of exciting things that I can work with. There's some really good selfie shots. I would spend a good amount of time probably getting a feel for what…
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