Hi everyone,

Hope I posted in the proper section. I'm trying to make my first beat video for posting on youtube and was wondering if you could please suggest some easy video making software for first time users that could create the kind of effect shown in this video below. Some kind of software that matches the beat with the picture movement or shows a moving equalizer bar or spectrum wave that matches the audio used in the video. Hopefully it's not too difficult to master as I'm clueless when it comes to visual editing software.


Any kind of suggestion or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for the help and best regards!

 

You really know your stuff Matt, that was very informative.

 

THANK YOU Matt777!!! Much appreciated!! This is extremely helpful!!! Hope you won't mind me asking but does Adobe Premiere Pro have similar features as After Effects? I recently saw several posts on AudioZ and thought about trying it out.

Thanks again for the advice. Have a great weekend!

 

You can try Blender, a free 3D-compositor-video editing software.
In Blender you can also take an audio file and assign it to change things, lets say like abstract art. There are lots of sites where you can download free 3D models.
You can do some changes with keyframes over time, so there would be some variation that makes the video a little more interesting than a pumping to the music "Mikey".

 

if you r fl user you can do it in there mate ...

 

make what he do , but then record it with any software

 

@korniceman3000, sorry, quite busy end of week here ;). The answer is.. yes and no. While After Effects and Premiere do share some features, they are intended for completing different tasks.

When you have footage of your beautiful gf ;) and want to put clips in a sequence with some color correction, retro filters and sync it to an audio track you would use Premiere. When there is a clip of your annoying neighbor's car in the footage and want to blow it up, you send that one to After Effects and treat it properly. The two prgs infact integrate.

For what you were describing, you only need After Effects, as you are "producing" footage. The "pumping" logo or a spectrum takes no time to make. The real power of AE though are it's plugins like Red Giant (Particular, Form,..), Video Copilot stuff, Plexus...

Don't have much experience with Blender.. impressive how it does everything from modeling to video editing. For free(!)

Keep in mind it helps to have a powerful machine to play with all this. About aesthetics/artsy aspect. If you use and master what I suggested above, the sky (your imagination) is the limit. But sometimes less is more and if you look at labels like Selected, Monstercat.. well again, just take a photo of your gf, put on a hipster filter, write/design a logo and you're done..