I Wanna Make a DB Montage - Any Tips?

(BruceLeeForever) #1

Wanting to mash together one of my favorite Japanese punk rock songs with some footage of me playing Sparks. Any tips or tutorials on this would greatly help me. :slight_smile:

(sentimentalDime) #2

@Sniff

(Ballto) #3

Proxy. Use the pretty mercs.

so pretty.

(N8o) #4

Make sure the music level is at a nice level, and use proper jump cuts if you need to. Otherwise, just find good clips and throw some things together.

(gg2ez) #5

Don’t play Phantom.

/joke

(FUNNYBLACKMAN) #6

First off you need to gather all the clips together.Then choose a song that could be fitting to what’s happening in the video.Then align your clips in a way that they can synchronize with the music.If the song is shorter than the video, choose a second one and when the songs switch add a fade in/fade out effect(applies to beginning of video and end of course).This is my advice, you could do it in a different way but so far for me it has worked out fine.

(GiantGiant) #7

I found some tips here
https://youtu.be/nHJsHlcyHbA :wink:

(Jostabeere) #8

No. Dubstep.

(Faraleth) #9

^ this, just… 100% this.

If you are making a montage, follow these simple rules:

  • Do NOT use dupstep - plenty other genre’s exist and work a lot better. It’s generic and over-done.
  • Try to stick to minimal video editing where possible - high skills and impressive shots make a montage great, not the horrible filters, lens flair, motion blur and slow mo’ you throw onto it.
  • Use a variety of weaponry - sure, so you can get sick headshots with a sniper, so can most with a bit of practice. Let’s see what you can do with the other 99% of weapons. :slight_smile:
  • Use video cuts wisely - try and fit these to the beat of your music, it will flow a LOT better if you make a cut on beat, as opposed to randomly throughout.

Follow those 4 simple steps and it’s pretty hard to go wrong. :wink:

(_Sniff_) #10

My montage process goes as follows.

Find a song that works well for the idea I want to accomplish. This is mostly puns. “Jump around” for a jump video" “Free styler” For aggro sticky throws.

It doesn’t HAVE to be a pun but if the song is at least related to what’s going in the video it seems to tie it together. I think Derpy Bomb 4 fell because it wasn’t strongly related or synched to lyrics.

AND

Clip selection. It’s okay to trash clips you thought were good or are good but just don’t fit. Save em for later or send them to the bin. Keep the best ones only.

THEN

All I do is crossfades set to lyrics of songs and tinker with which clips go where for hours. Nothing fancy but when done well has an entertaining effect. Sometimes at the end I’m not happy and trash it. Start over.

The point is you should be able to tell if what you made is meeh. If it doesn’t entertain you how can you expect to entertain others. Be truthful with yourself.

(APRenpsy) #11

Have fun, if you like what you made show it off, if not then scrap it. At least that is how I make my videos… Can’t tell you how much footage I threw away cause it didn’t fit.

By the way so far I only ever made one montage and that was for BLR. So I’m not a expert by any means.

(Dog) #12

If you’re trying to sync clips and music together and you’re just a few frames from lining up the clip with the music, rather than changing the length of the clip and adjusting it’s position, you can get away with minimal changes to how quickly the clip plays depending on the fps your recorded at. If you can record at significantly greater than 60 fps (120 is safe, 90 is possible) tactfully making parts of the clip play at .9 speed to 1.1 speed can get the synch you want, without obviously skewing the gameplay’s speed. It doesn’t even need to be the whole clip, just cut the clip into smaller parts and slow down/speed up small parts of it, usually speed up lulls when you need a shorter clip, or slow down right before or after action if you need a longer clip.

(Backuplight) #13

[quote=“Faraleth;120409”][list]
[*] Do NOT use dupstep - plenty other genre’s exist and work a lot better. It’s generic [/list][/quote]
Worst advice ever conceived! Dubstep numba one!

[spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOTN39u3t0I[/video][/spoiler]

(watsyurdeal) #14

Use this song

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5-sfG8BV8wU

I plan to use it as well, pretty fucking hype

(BruceLeeForever) #15

Thank you everyone. Awesome tips! :smiley:

What should I use to edit videos? Like what program? I’m experienced with Digital Audio Workstations sort of but I have no experience with programs like Sony Vegas.

(APRenpsy) #16

[quote=“BruceLeeForever;120617”]Thank you everyone. Awesome tips! :smiley:

What should I use to edit videos? Like what program? I’m experienced with Digital Audio Workstations sort of but I have no experience with programs like Sony Vegas.[/quote]

I use Song Vegas.

(BruceLeeForever) #17

[quote=“APRenpsy;120619”][quote=“BruceLeeForever;120617”]Thank you everyone. Awesome tips! :smiley:

What should I use to edit videos? Like what program? I’m experienced with Digital Audio Workstations sort of but I have no experience with programs like Sony Vegas.[/quote]

I use Song Vegas.[/quote]

Anything you can tell me to help me out as a beginner of Sony Vegas?

(APRenpsy) #18

[quote=“BruceLeeForever;120622”][quote=“APRenpsy;120619”][quote=“BruceLeeForever;120617”]Thank you everyone. Awesome tips! :smiley:

What should I use to edit videos? Like what program? I’m experienced with Digital Audio Workstations sort of but I have no experience with programs like Sony Vegas.[/quote]

I use Song Vegas.[/quote]

Anything you can tell me to help me out as a beginner of Sony Vegas?[/quote]

Honestly if you have the want to learn you just pick it up yourself I’m a beginner to if there is a effect I want to use I search it up online.

(Dog) #19

Sony Vegas is pretty intuitive once you learn the basics. You import clips, you drag them onto the timeline, voila, clip is in the scene. You change the length of the clip by dragging the sides, you split a clip by selecting where you want the break and pressing S. Transitions are automatically applied on to clips that overlap, you can change the type of transition by dragging the preferred style over the transition section.

You can separate the audio and video of a clip also, don’t remember off the top of my head how since it’s been a while since I’ve made a video, but it’s good to know if you record using fraps or something, since it’s less resource consuming to record with the audio and video dysnced and just syncing it up later in vegas. Alternatively, super fancy people sometimes want to delete the in-game audio and replace it with their own audio. A common use for this is when the clip has a clusterfuck of audio going on and it detracts from the music/action, so they cut the original audio and then plant structured game audio at the right time to replicate the original audio, but minus the clusterfuck that was drowning it out (e.g. a lot of videos that involve sniper clips will frequently cut weaponfire from the audio unless it’s either the sniper firing, or it’s a weapon being fired at the sniper, makes the actions sound more crisp).

Any effects you want to apply, like color correction or whatnot, is as simple as dragging the effect on to the clip you want to modify, then changing the properties to what you want. Contrary to what mlg edits would make you think, there is such a thing as appropriate color correction, usually it’s to tone down the map’s color scheme if it’s oppressive (trainyard might be the best example of a strong red scheme, which can be a strain on some eyes) or accentuates it if the settings you recorded at cause desaturation (low texture settings typically cause this).

(N8o) #20

[quote=“Watsyurdeal;120522”]Use this song

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5-sfG8BV8wU

I plan to use it as well, pretty fucking hype[/quote]

Totally using that. Thanks for introducing that to me.