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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
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Part 3: Methods of Scoring to Picture
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Part 4: Synchronizing Music to Picture

Working with Beat Mapping

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to deal with tempo in film music and create different types of tempo maps, using a spotting list and SMPTE-locked scene markers.

In this chapter, we will review how to use beat mapping in Logic Pro as another tool to help find an appropriate tempo, and we will also create a tempo map. We will also evaluate and look at markers’ position numbers and their bar and beat locations, along with the overall tempo.

Additionally, we will explore different beat mapping methods to find a suitable tempo for a film, edit a Beat Mapping track, and discuss the overall benefit of using the Logic Pro beat mapping function.

In this chapter, we will explore beat mapping from a technical point of view in depth, which involves connecting the downbeat of a bar to a beat mapping line. Since this task takes a significant amount of time to master, we will go through multiple exercises that will help you to master the task of...