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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)
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Part 1: An Introduction to Scoring to Picture
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Part 2: Project Setup and Navigation
9
Part 3: Methods of Scoring to Picture
13
Part 4: Synchronizing Music to Picture

Reviewing the Logic Pro LCD position display

Logic Pro users learn about position and grid settings using bars, beats, divisions, and tick functions during the beginning stages of exploring Logic Pro, and it is considered essential Logic Pro knowledge. Here, we are going to review this content again because it will help prepare for the complex task of creating a tempo map. This will help with reading and identifying the specific position of the marker, which will help with determining how close the marker is to the nearest bar and beat.

In Figure 7.7, you can see the LCD display and the Giant Beats Display, showing the playhead location at 1 1 1 1, meaning bar 1, beat 1, division 1, and tick 1.

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Figure 7.7: Position numbers with explanation

Figure 7.7: Position numbers with explanation

Next, we’re going to look at a specific marker from the spotting list, with a default tempo of 120 bpm, and review how to read the position of the marker in the marker window.

In Figure 7.8, the...