Re: Picture before Music - or vice versa

I think Charlie kind of hit it when he talked about hearing the music in his head. When doing promos, interstitials, etc., I like to work that way. The VO has its own rhythm and pacing. I cut to that and then find a few cuts of music (SonicFirePro usually) I think will fit and then try them out. When they have the same pacing and rhythm as the VO it only takes a little tweaking of the video for the cuts to fall on the beats and still match the VO.

On long form projects it gets a bit more difficult because we don't always have a narration track from a pro; often a scratch track from the producer or writer. So we cut to the read and then hope the professional can match the rhythm and sync of the scratch. After audio post our projects usually hit the air date with no time to tweak the cuts. Not ideal but often reality.

Del
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