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Scoring to Picture in Logic Pro

By : Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Book Image

Scoring to Picture in Logic Pro

5 (1)
By: Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Overview of this book

This book will help you leverage the Logic Pro digital audio workstation (DAW) for scoring to picture. With the help of expert insights from a Hollywood film composer, you'll understand how the film music industry works and be ready to meet the demands of film directors or producers, exploring common scenarios and the process of post-production and final film score delivery. Packed with all the technical and practical skills needed when scoring to picture in Logic Pro, along with insights into real film scoring tasks, this book will prepare you for success in the industry. You’ll start by getting acquainted with film scoring terminology and then advance to working with QuickTime video and its components, getting an overview of how to set up and sync a movie file in Logic Pro. You’ll see the different methods of creating tempo maps, find a suitable tempo for a film scene using hit points and scene markers, and work with time signature and beat mapping functions. You’ll also work with a pre-composed score of a Mercedes commercial that you can analyze and emulate in your own Logic Pro session. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained new skills and the knowledge of commonly used industry scenarios to help you enter the professional market of scoring to picture.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1: An Introduction to Scoring to Picture
5
Part 2: Project Setup and Navigation
9
Part 3: Methods of Scoring to Picture
13
Part 4: Synchronizing Music to Picture

Watching a movie with a metronome

Before deciding what the music in your film will do or how it will serve the picture, the first step is to simply watch the movie. In this section, we will watch a movie with the metronome (also referred to as click) on.

Open the movie file Mercedes-Benz Cabrio C 300_BITC.mov that you saved in Chapter 6, with the SMPTE locked scene markers. Make sure that the movie and Logic Pro are in sync, then name and save the project (for example, I will choose Tempo mapping_01.).

Figure 7.1: Arrange window with spotting notes list

Figure 7.1: Arrange window with spotting notes list

The next step is to lock the movie track and the marker track by clicking on the padlock icon; this will prevent the markers and the movie from shifting when changing the tempo or time signature:

Figure 7.2: Locked movie and marker tracks

Figure 7.2: Locked movie and marker tracks

Next, turn on the metronome by using the shortcut (K) and view the entire film with a click.

Watch the entire movie from the beginning...