Beat Sync Montage

Use this workflow when the edit should be driven by music. The failure mode to avoid is a metronome edit: every cut technically lands on a beat, and the result still feels mechanical, tiring, or unrelated to what is on screen.

This workflow decides what to cut and why. It does not re-explain the music tools, when you reach an execution step, follow music-intelligence for analyze_music, music_edit_plan, and sync_cuts_to_music. Load it there.

This is a OpenChatCut-native workflow. Use the current project, source assets, asset-frame inspection, AV/script context, and OpenChatCut editing tools.

When to switch workflows

• Beat-synced photos on a locked, empty track → music-intelligence handles this directly with music_image_plan. This workflow is for video montage.
• One long source cut to speech rhythm → long-video-to-shorts.
• Many clips packaged as highlights without music driving the cut → multi-clips-to-reels.
• N distinct beat-synced variants from one pool → batch-montage-variants, using this workflow for each cut.

Workflow