Vexercise 3 Drops! Rhythmic Editing 🥁

[lola]

Hi all! It's time for Vexercise 3! This vexercise focuses on rhythmic editing -- making those vids that make you want to move with them. Just a note, because this comes up sometimes -- rhythmic editing can be faced paced, sure, but you can also do slow and intense/intentional rhythmic editing. It's up to you and the audio you choose! 

Here are the details for this vexercise:

3) Rhythmic Editing

Produce a one minute video edit where you focus especially on rhythmic editing. Try your hand at time remapping at least once in this video. Choose an audio track that has a clear rhythmic pattern or interesting rhythmic progressions to make your editing experience easier. Reference the wave visualization of your audio track to help guide your editing choices. (If you’re up to it, make 2 versions, one that cuts primarily on the beat, another where you try syncopated editing (cutting on the *and*) and for extra special credit, an extra one that cuts on other instrumentation/vocals

Some examples & explanations/tutorials

Example of emphasis on on-the-beat editing
Example of emphasis on syncopated editing (warning for flashing lights)
A short video on syncopated rhythm (warning for flashing lights)

A short video on time remapping in Premiere
Lim on time remapping (or velocity vidding) in Premiere.
Short video on time remapping in Davinci Resolve
More advanced version for greater flexibility in Resolve

Extra: Examples of instrumentation editing

Iscariot (My Country: The New Age)
Overcome (Star Wars: Rogue One)

Have other videos to recommend for examples of rhythmic editing? Mention them in the comments and we'll add them to the post! 

Comments

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! I'm happy to hear you got enough of the story to get the idea. I think with fast cuts vs slow cuts my philosophy ended up being that clips that have a change of state (a hologram turning on/off, people entering/exiting the scene, etc) could go on for longer than ones where the action was "static" (people walking, zoom in on a face, etc) because those were, like, clips that had two things vs just one? I'm also glad to hear that the tension-building section worked, since that was one of the last ones I laid down - I knew what I had to do for the refrains, but that was mostly open space.