How to beat-sync songs to video in Sony Vegas

2008-09-26

Matching music to visuals is fun and pretty easy to do in Sony Vegas, my fave video editor. After trial and error with various means, I figured out a practical way to do this with MixMeister BPM Analyzer. It works best when the music has a strong, steady tempo — most modern pop, rock, and dance will do. Works lovely for your music videos, action-packed cinematics, and more.

I'm expanding into video tutorials outside of Second Life (altho they may very well be applicable), and in this screencast, I'll show you exactly how to beat-sync your songs to video!

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» DOWNLOAD HIFI VIDEO – Want more quality? Here you are.

» DOWNLOAD EXAMPLE PROJECT FILE – For reverse-engineering . ;) It was made in Vegas Pro 8.

Also: I wish Vegas had built-in beat detection like ACID, or even better, Ableton Live or some VJ apps (for which it's a performance necessity). For now though, the method I present can be pulled off in a few minutes tops, and is very usable.

Let me know if you find this usefun (useful + fun)!

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Lowe Runo 2008-09-30 at 4:51 AM UTC

WOW great advice… And I spent hours syncing my dances in my Second Life Swing Video

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTuOOUIi69k)

….grrrr This would have been much simpler…Thanks

Torley 2008-10-04 at 8:12 AM UTC

@Lowe: Look forward to more videos from you with beat-sync! I used to do it by hand until I found this simpler method — it's how we learn, going forward!

Susan 2008-12-14 at 8:25 PM UTC

Nidesoft is outstanding and professional software producer for multimedia conversion between all popular video and audio files, between DVD and all popular portable players.
Now it has launched a series of new software for enjoying videos and music with Sony products.

hellen 2008-12-15 at 7:23 PM UTC

Suan, I agree with you. Nidesoft is wonderful and now I found that it has pubished two excellent software for all the Sony devices. Nidesoft DVD to Sony Xperia Converter and Nidesoft Sony XPeria Video Converter. with those two software, you can get vides and music from DVD and all other video files for all your Sony devices such as PSP, Sony Erission mobile phone, walkman,PS3.etc..

Torley 2008-12-19 at 6:15 PM UTC

I'll have a look at Nidesoft… I was SORELY disappointed by Badaboom's clunkiness. GPU-accelerated video encoding is promising but still primitive in its execution.

cheyenne 2009-03-06 at 1:42 PM UTC

you are simply amazing!! i have been trying to do this for soooo long and your tutorial put it into the simplest form ever! again, your amazing, thank you!!! :)

haiyeer 2009-03-09 at 9:00 PM UTC

useful information! I like it very much!

wsjp 2009-03-31 at 1:37 AM UTC

good

shilemen 2009-05-04 at 8:37 PM UTC

Uhmm, I like Nidesoft Vidoe Converter. it gave me the expression of a profressional and very powerful video converter with forward thinking guys ever to perfect it.

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