Hi Jay, What i meant to say is mix the audio from the 2 videos on beat. (just like creating a mixed music cd, but in this situation using music videos)

I think he means do something special on the beat: ie a cut, quick zoom, flash, etc.

No, you can't do that automaticly (well, maybe someone could write a plugin or soemthing). Honestly, I don't know why you'd wantto. If I had Vegas automaticly do it for me, why would anyone pay me to do it myself when for a couple hundred more they could buy the program & do it themselves & sell it like me?

That's what an editor does. :) Besides, I don't know how you work, but when I do a music vid I pretty much customize each second of the video. Every shot I use, SFX, etc. I pick out & try tons others to see how they look. And, if I get 1/2 way through & find that what I did before doesn't mesh with what it later, I go over it again.

But I don't do this for a living, it's a hobby. I don't charge much & I want each project (vid, DVD case, DVD label, menu's etc) to be my very best. If I did it for a living I wouldn't be so choosy about projects & would most likely just to simple cuts/sfx for cheaper clients. But I don't do that. :)

Sorry to be so dense. Are you saying you're combining the audio of two videos into one audio track?

I think he means do something special on the beat: ie a cut, quick zoom, flash, etc.

That would require the use of marker, would it not?

I think he means do something special on the beat: ie a cut, quick zoom, flash, etc.

I agree with you (about customizing "each second of the video"), but I don't think that's what he means. See his comment about "mixed music CDs." When people (DJ's) make mix tapes / CDs, they try to match up the beat of one audio track as it finishes with the track that's coming into to replace it (usually with one fading out and the other fading in). They do this so that the changeover is smooth, and I'm not sure but I think Sony ACID has a feature for making this beat match-up easy to do.

So, I think the original poster is asking if Vegas has a similar feature so he can take two (or part of two) music videos, transition one to the other, and match up the beat in the audio of the two.

If this is his question, I believe the answer is no. Not automatically, anyhow.

Rob

Hi there.. I appreciate your response & interest. But i might have not explained myself correctly. Let me get more into detail...Im creating a 15 minute dance set & I have 5 dance videos that I want to use for the set. But i dont want each video to play the entire length & I want to mix in the next video about 2 minutes into the set, etc.. But i dont know if i can beatmap the audio from Vegas into Acid. (so the tracks are mixed on beat) Can ths be done?

Bstro hit it right on the head. I know Vegas will not mix it automatically but can i edit in acid & beatmap from there?

Ah... as bStro pointed out, not automatically.

How else can i create the smooth mix between the videos?

I've done this for audio a LOT, so it's not too hard to apply the same technique to video.

Use the peaks to see where the beats land, and stretch (or squish) the events to match tempos. Obviously you'll need to listen to make sure you're not lining up a snare (usually the 3 and 7 counts) with the kicks (usually 1 and 5), but if you're any kind of DJ, you know how to match beats. Assuming you don't cut anything from the beginning or end, you can then adjust the video length to match its corresponding video. From there, it's just a matter of mixing video as you please, you just can't move things around the timeline as freely as you would if not for matching beats.

Make sense?

One thing I've always thought would be cool (after wrestling with the same type of problem often) is a "metronome" function .... not to be confused with the functionality in recording Vegas audio - or maybe it SHOULD be confused with that...

Anyway: the ability to set the beat and of an audio track. Markers, or lines, snap points, or some other indicator would appear at each beat along the track - AND along any video track you indicate. You then place your music clip on the track, lining it up so that the signal beats match the track beats. When it comes time to make a video cut, transition, etc. on the beat, you simply place it on the "beat-marked" video track and snap it to the nearest "beat line."

Why not use a microphone and a new audio track and use your own handclaps to keep the beat and then put this new track in the timeline and you can see exactly where the beat is.