In this tutorial you learn how to create an automatic cut in sync with the music using BeatEdit for Premiere Pro.
BeatEdit automatically detects the beats in your music and arranges your clips in the Premiere Pro timeline accordingly.
BeatEdit detects the beats in your music and generates beat markers in the Premiere Pro timeline.
Create automatic edits in sync with the music or let BeatEdit assist your manual editing process.
While After Effects itself does not contain any stock music or sound effects, the Creative Suite or Creative Cloud has a big library of stock music and sound effects included.
In CS4, CS5 and CS5.5 the audio files are conventiently accessible from Adobe Soundbooth as shown in Andrew Davis' tutorial Free Music & Sound FX in Soundbooth.
After Effects is very powerful when it comes to make animations that automatically react to the music or the sounds of your project. Here I give an overview over the most common workflows.
BeatEdit
BeatEdit is an extension for After Effects (and also Premiere Pro) which can auto-detect beats in a music track, wiggle to the beat, write markers, repeat keyframes, stagger layers, and more!
If you want to do animations in After Effects that perfectly fit with your music, then this tutorial is for you. It covers all basic functions of our tool beat assistant. You learn how to automatically detect the bpm (beat per minute) of your music and generate markers according to the beat.
