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

[trickybonmot]

I had a good idea for this one so I did it yesterday in like 13 hours!

Jiukuang 酒狂 - The Untamed

I used a piece of classical Chinese guqin music and I had an absolutely wild realization and coincidence which is that the show contains a reference to THIS PIECE OF MUSIC?? I wrote a twitter thread about it.

[trickybonmot]

Also this is a good excuse to rec this amazing vid: The Untamed - Xap

[extrapenguin]

I did not try velocity vidding, as that's harder in kdenlive than it seems to be in Premiere (and I don't think there's actually a way to do smooth slowdowns/speedups?), but other than that, this is very much within my vidding style – I like cutting to the beat. I tend to go a bit long on clips, though, so I intentionally decided to try out rapid cutting, and made sure I was cutting on 2, 3, and 4, not just always on 1. I even put in a few syncopated/off-beat transitions.

Still using Star Wars: the Old Republic as my source. This time, spoilers for the entire Jedi Consular story. As this vid uses the Big Idea I had for the Consular storyline, I made a full-length vid instead of limiting myself to 1 minute:

Leave This Place Alive

Also, it's over 30°C here, and I and my computer both hate it. I peeked ahead for the next vex (kdenlive is terrible at text) and it seems Blender has better performance, so I think I'll swap to that for the future vexes.

[lizardjay]

Mine is here

This was a lot of fun, though I kind of went rogue on "where to cut" :D

[nu_breed]

Here's mine: Love SOS 3 ways (on-the-beat, syncopation, and using other instrumentation/vocal.)

I think I like the 3rd one best!

[aurumcalendula]

Here's mine! Dark Side (吸血鬼鬼盲盒 | The Vampires)

[marah_sarie]

Here's mine! Again for Miss Sherlock, content warnings and info on AO3:

[Vexercise 3] - gimme gimme

[unavee]

Here's mine (for Seventeen again): Exactly how I feel

I tried cutting in different places on the beat (with the instrumentation, with the lyrics). Also, since I didn't do the second VfXercise with transitions, I tried using some here. And I learned how to use the tracking tool so I included some unnecessary text tracking :D

[annathecrow]

Mine: Tatooine

Very moody, slow vid set to a beautiful instrumental guitar piece by Andy McKee. I used time remapping (although just one true speed ramp effect), and even had to do some color grading on one clip to match the color palette. I made a conscious attempt to cut syncopated instead of going by the feel, no idea what that did.