Beat Sync: How to Cut Clips to the Music in PressCut

Videos feel more professional when the cuts land on the music. PressCut finds the beats of a track on your phone and fits your clips to them.

Find the beats

1. Add music to your project with Audio.
2. Select the music track on the timeline and open Beat sync.
3. Tap Find beats. PressCut marks the beats on the timeline and shows how many it found and the tempo (BPM).

Fit your clips to the beat

Tap Fit clips to the beat. Each clip then ends on a beat. Photos take the nearest beat; videos only get shorter, never longer.

The Beat cut tool goes one step further: every clip lasts a whole number of beats, so all the cuts land on the music.

Make a slideshow that changes on the beat

When you turn photos into a video, turn on Change photo on the beat. It uses the beats found in your music, so add music and tap Find beats first.

Troubleshooting

• No clear beat was found in this track: try a song with a steady rhythm. Speech, ambient music and tracks with tempo changes are hard to analyse.
• Nothing to change: the clips already sit on the beat, or no beat falls inside them. Make the clips longer and try again.