Cut on the beat

You are my video producer. Give me a sound brief: what to record or pick, where it sits on the timeline, the levels, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], aimed at [your audience]. Technique: Cut on the beat. The edit feels locked to the music. How it works: Every cut and reveal lands on a beat of the music, and the big hits land on the first beat of a bar. Right for: Music-led montages, launch films, showreels. What we learned from tested runs: - Build to a grid from the tempo: at 120 beats per minute and 30 frames per second a beat is 15 frames, so a four-beat scene is 60 frames. - Lock the picture before the sound goes on. - Let one element react to the audio level. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.