Make a Homemade Music Video
Creating your own music video gives your band an important promotional material that is easy to distribute. Homemade music videos can be effective, cost-efficient alternatives to spending a lot of money on professional direction, sets, effects and extras found in big budget mainstream videos. A video camera, your original song in digital form and a little creativity are all you need to get started.
Instructions
1. Decide on a concept for your music video. Determine where you will shoot and what the video will look like. Be mindful of your production limitations as you map out the logistics of your music video content.
2. Play the song for which you are filming the music video. Play the song aloud on a stereo system so that the band can use it as a timing reference as you record the video.
3. Film your band as they re-enact or perform alongside the musical backing track as outlined in Step 2.
4. Export the recorded video from your camera onto the computer upon which you will align and mix the music video.
5. Create a new session in your video editing software. Insert your recorded video footage into a new channel or track. Insert the song for which you are making the music video into a separate channel or track.
6. Mute or delete any of the recorded video footage's audio. You will not need this, as the original song will be your music video's soundtrack.
7. Align the video and audio tracks. Slide the audio and video forward and backward in their channels until they are synchronized upon playback. Your bands mouthed words and actions should line up perfectly with the music as if you were performing the song.
8. Export or mix the session into a new video file. Choose the "Export" or "Mixdown" options in the "File" or "Import/Export" tab in your video editing software's menu bar.
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