Literally the Best Way to Edit to Music in DaVinci Resolve - BeatEdit

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Editing to the beat of a song can be such a pain and take FOREVER. Well, it used to be, but BeatEdit takes all that stress away.

In this video I'll show you a few different ways to use BeatEdit to make editing the music in your projects a breeze.

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[DeejayJeanP]

"Removing stuff that's in the way of being creative".
This notion is underrated

[DavideTravelli]

It doesnt really work for me, it marks the beats pretty incorrectly. Before I bought it the developer replied immediately after purchased he stopped. I would advise against purchasing it.

[nicolaswojdacki]

I literally did this by hand today! Great to know there’s such a neat tool for it.

[Cchogan]

Can you offset the markers a little? As a music editor who started back with mag and 1/4", I learnt very quickly that a "beat" has a length to it. Most tempo identification software finds the loudest part of the beat, but if you edit your picture to the front of the beat, normally just before the loudest, or even the tiniest fraction earlier, then you don't get that slightly laggy feeling you have here - it becomes more musical. The same with music editing. When I first edited digitally, so long ago now, I noticed my edits were in time but didn't sound so nice as when I edited manually with tape, razor blade, and sticky tape. Thinking about how I edited, I realised that when I rocked the tape back and forth over the play head of the tape machine, what I was listening for was the beginning of the beat - that tiniest ramp up. Editing using waveform, I went for the obvious peak, and it wasn't as good. So, nudging the music that tiniest fraction later might make it much better.

[kebert]

Ha! This is crazy. I'm putting together a video to help remember our Yorkie that we had to say goodbye to yesterday and I always struggle with laying music into my edits. I thought to myself someone has to have a way to be able to line up video clips with beats to music and when I landed on YouTube, there was this video in my suggestion list. This is a life saver for me as I have zero music talents and have a very hard time leveraging music in my videos. Great tip and thanks.

[chasingvenusfilmarts]

I've learned (especially in music vids) to not always cut on the beat...to use discretion because just as with the overuse of slomo, the edit can become predictiable and unintentionally bore/lose your audience. But yes, tools such as this can work wonders when used wisely! Thanks for the vid!! P.S. Also, for a more "human" feel, you can tap out your beats in real time with markers and catch the natural rhythms other than just the peaks ( audio peaks don't always corelate with our visions' "sense" of rhythm haha) Peace.

[richardpoulin]

oh. my. god. I've been wasting literal hours per project lining up beats perfectly. this is amazing

[BrianTheCameraGuy]

Hey Casey, this has been something that I have been using for about 2 months. It is unbelievable. I have been hanging on to Adobe Audition to do just this. I am thinking about canceling everything but photoshop and lightroom. Fire, fire, fire

[MariYumeCh]

i never knew beat editing was even a thing, i think i just grew a new brain cell. thanks for this!!

[AveCaRa]

the question is: Why Blackmagic didn't put that feature into the Resolve Studio yet? Why we need to pay extra 15-20% of the whole Resolve soft value just for one feature only?

[JimRobinson-colors]

I used to do a lot of music videos and the click wave that you showed at the end - if it works as it looks like it works that would have been a really timesaver. Part of the older music videos was preparing a lip sync track for bands to play along with. But they all required a decent count in, so players could start together - especially drummers. So I would have to create a count in, which of course had to be at the tempo and be before the song starts - So what I used to do is tap the count on a desktop with a mic on it. Then check it against the waveform and grab two bars - cut it and paste it into a leader area in the edit.
When I first starting do that it was in audio programs, but eventually we would build the pre - shooting tracks on an ipad with a really large SMPTE timecode playing to which an assistant on set would hold it up and all the cameras would catch the Timecode - then the count in would come on and all the cameras would shoot the video.
Then later I could line up all the sync on the camera by matching the recorded playback to the cameras shot of the SMPTE captured before countdown.
Anyway - just creating that count in was time consuming. Then when in edit - I would count and tap my foot and put markers down as a guide for switching on the beat. So this in my opinion, is a really great tool, if it works as your demo of it shows.
Nice find Casey.

[alex__film]

Oh man - that’s what I do manually every time! Sooo glad that we have a tool for that now!
Thanks a lot, Casey! 👍

[avideomakr]

Been using BeatEdit for 8 years. Best plugin to come to Resolve.

[shalinjr]

Insanely useful. Thanks for showing!!!

[HarshKarena]

amazing tool brother its gonna be save lots of time thank you casey

[swagmag]

Hey Casey, I've been using BeatEdit for Resolve for a month or so. Can you show how to install it on the iPad version of Resolve Studio?

[XynesterPala-og]

nice tutorial sir Casey I learn a lot .. I can now download the beat edit

[martinhoog]

I usually edit music videos with multicam. However this is VERY interesting!

I will try to cut the multicam clip as usual and then use these markers as perfect waypoints for the beats! I would imagine that this would be a very nice workflow, thank you!

[Flipsgardenofweeden]

the amount of times its you Casey that solves my problem!!!

[Edgardbmedia]

Thank You For this video.. this plugin is a game changer