Hard Hits Versus Soft Hits

When making hard and soft hits for a video or a movie you have to know the difference between them. You have to determine what fits best with the mood. A Hard hit is when an event in the video track strongly corresponds to an event in the musical sound track. For an example when the robot in our Superman video knocks a cop aside we used a hard thumping sound. A soft hit on the other hand is when the timing is less direct but still has some relation. For example, in our basketball video the intensity of the music increased roughly about the same time that someone started to drive to the basket. These are the differences between hard and soft hits.