Editing in sync with the music has never been easier. BeatEdit detects the beats of your music and represents them as markers in the Premiere Pro timeline.

speed-up any editing process that involves music

Use the beat information to generate fully automatic edits in sync with the music. If you need more control, the beat markers can also be used as guides in your manual editing process. Also the automatic edits can be tweaked easily in the timeline.

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Features

• robust state of the art beat detection
• create sequence markers or clip markers
• compatible with Automate to Sequence function of Premiere Pro
• select beats randomly to create more variation
• option to create extra markers at other rhythmically relevant points in addition to the beats

Examples

Automatic cut based on the beats detected by BeatEdit.

Same footage as above and again an automatically generated cut. This time it is much less regular since it makes use of both the beats and the other rhythmically relevant points detected by BeatEdit.

Footage by Artbeats:
https://www.artbeats.com/collections/291-Surfing-HD
Royalty Free Music by Premiumbeat.com:
https://www.premiumbeat.com/royalty_free_music/songs/summer-girl
https://www.premiumbeat.com/royalty_free_music/songs/clap-tap

Robust Beat Tracking Technology

BeatEdit relies on very robust beat tracking technologies developed by music research groups around the globe. The used beat tracker IBT is developed by the Sound and Music Computing Group at INESC TEC in Porto. Furthermore, BeatEdit is relying on the MARSYAS (Music Analysis, Retrieval and Synthesis for Audio Signals) framework which is developed under the direction of George Tzanetakis, Associate Professor at University of Victoria.

Tutorials

Get started with our in depth tutorial series about BeatEdit.

Premiere Pro Timeline Example

After the beat detection, we generated sequence markers in the Premiere Pro timeline for some of the beats (1). Then we used the Automate To Sequence function of Premiere Pro, to automatically generate a cut based on those markers (2). In addition to the sequence markers, we also generated clip markers for all beats in the audio track (3). These are useful as guides in case we want to modify any of the cuts manually later and still ensure that they are placed accurately on beat locations.