Sound & music
Videos are silent unless you ask. Any video can carry a music bed — and once there is music, the cuts should land on it.
A music bed
Give the agent a path to an audio file. It has to know the track before it times anything, because the tempo decides how long each scene is.
/reely Use assets/track.m4a as the music bed.
Cutting to the beat
Reely measures the track — tempo, where the first beat lands, and where the drop is — and then times scenes in beats rather than seconds. Every cut lands on the music instead of near it.
| You want | Say |
|---|---|
| Cuts on the beat | “Cut every scene on the beat.” |
| The reveal on the drop | “Land the product reveal on the drop.” |
| Faster cutting | “Two beats per scene instead of four.” |
| The action on a beat | “Make the tap land on a beat.” |
Bring your own licensed track. Reely does not supply music.
Transition sound effects
Screen changes can carry a short effect — a whoosh, a whip, or a ding. Off unless you ask, because they date a video fast.
/reely Add a whoosh on each screen transition.
Volume and ducking
- “Bring the music down — it is fighting the captions.”
- “Mute the music for the last scene.”
- “Fade the track out over the final two seconds.”