Sound and Music Sync

Sound is half the video and the half people forget. A mediocre animation cut to the beat with a clean voiceover reads as professional; a beautiful animation with cuts that float and a VO buried under the music reads as amateur. This is the audio taste layer. You decide where cuts land, where sound effects punctuate, how the voiceover breathes, and how the mix sits - then you hand the concrete numbers (beat frames, SFX timestamps, duck levels) to remotion-compose to wire onto the timeline and remotion-render to export. You do not write the <Audio> JSX or run the renderer; you make the creative decisions that feed them.

This pairs with the rest of the motion-video-direction pack: a video-storyboard scene list and motion-design-principles timing decisions are your input - you score against beats that already exist. If text is animating to the audio, sync it with kinetic-typography; if the cut rhythm is carrying a product walkthrough, coordinate with product-demo-director; if you are cutting a vertical/social version, re-derive beats per platform with social-video-formatter. The audio mix is its own layer - leave the visual look (color grade, lighting, contrast) to motion-color-and-light and score against whatever it grades.