NoBanks Nearby // Ryan Hammer
DIME
ABOUT
Music video for DIME by NoBanks Nearby. 9:16, 1080x1920, 24fps. Every shot generated in Runway and cut on a librosa beat grid at 161.5 BPM across 351 detected beats, the fastest tempo of the set.
PROCESS
DIME is 9:16, 1080x1920, 24fps, and it runs at 161.5 BPM, the fastest song of the set. librosa detected 351 beats and the assembler cuts on those exact timestamps. Tempo is the whole problem on this one. At 161.5 BPM a beat is about 0.37 seconds, so a shot held for four beats is barely a second and a half. There is no room to be approximately on time. This is also where generated footage fights you hardest: most clips have a natural motion speed that does not match a fast track, which is why the retime rule matters more here than anywhere else. Two rules are enforced in code rather than in the edit. No shot ever repeats: every slot in the EDL consumes a unique clip exactly once and the build hard errors if there are fewer clips than cuts. And shots whose motion is a steady mechanical cycle get retimed so one cycle equals a whole number of beats, so the motion sits on tempo instead of drifting against it. Rendered through h264_videotoolbox. Audio is stream copied from my original master and never re-encoded, because it is my song and a second encode costs quality for nothing. On 24fps: a lot of AI work gets rendered at 30 and called filmic, which is a contradiction. Frame rate is part of the language, not a setting. I shot broadcast and brand work from 2008 and I bring that eye to generated footage: composition, lens logic, contrast, and a cut that respects the track.
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