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[melannen]

Does anyone have links or advice on making dance vids specifically (Or if not dance vids, action-heavy vids that are mostly about showing the characters moving to the music?) I'm looking at the vexercises "Rhythm" days but I'd love to look over something written out, it it exists.

I will probably never finish it but I have been struck with inspiration for a vid I could maybe actually do, but I've never really thought about making dance vids before.

(Older stuff for tutorials is fine, my vid asthetic is stuck c. 2005 anyway.)

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[dirty_diana]

I've never written anything out but I love making dance vids! I'm sure there's lots of strategies but I largely focus on motion matching to mimic the idea of dancing. As in, matching the motion of the people to the clip that came before and after it, to make a full story of someone twirling or moving across the screen from the clips together. I do it a lot in this vid, for instance. I'm not sure how to help with rhythm stuff, I mostly just count it out lol. But a dance vid sounds awesome, good luck.

[melannen]

Thank you!

I think the story I'm trying to tell with this one would be more about parallels motion over cuts than about one cut moving into another? So cutting between three different jumps in three different contexts, but all to the same beat? I rewatched Game On yesterday and that may be more like what I am planning to do than a classic dance vid. Or maybe I'm just intimidated by all the amazing motion matching in y'all dance vids. (But also it's mcyt fandom, so the footage is... weird compared to classic media fandoms. In some ways I think it'll be easier to work with though.)

I am super tempted to just look up the beat of the song I'm using and cut my clips mathematically by multiples of beats, but that may be a terrible idea.

[dirty_diana]

I am a big mathematical cutter actually, so I totally support that plan! It can work well.

Game On is an awesome model, I love working by finding similar shots in motion based stuff as well. There's still a decent amount of motion-based logic guiding shot choice in it I think, like with the ball being hit/kicked back and forth, but it's a cool way of doing it. Also, don't be intimidated! I might just be weird but imo match finding can be really fun.

[melannen]

Oh cool! Do you have specific software you use for cutting? It seems cutting a lot of clips separately has kind of gone of of style but I think I need to do it that way.