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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

Beat mapping an entire MIDI region

In this section, we will let Logic Pro automatically create a new tempo map by analyzing an entire MIDI region, and all the notes in it, in the Beat Mapping track.

So, in the Tempo track, from the drop-down menu, create a new default Tempo of 120 bpm.

Figure 8.23: Beat mapping of the MIDI region

Figure 8.23: Beat mapping of the MIDI region

Then, click on the MIDI region so that it appears in the Beat Mapping track:

Figure 8.24: Highlighted MIDI region in the Beat Mapping track

Figure 8.24: Highlighted MIDI region in the Beat Mapping track

From the Beat Mapping track header pop-up menu, select Beats from Region.

Figure 8.25: Beat Mapping track drop-down menu

Figure 8.25: Beat Mapping track drop-down menu

The Set Beats by Guide Region(s) window will open, like so:

Figure 8.26: Set Beats by Guide Region(s) window

Figure 8.26: Set Beats by Guide Region(s) window

Click on the Note Value drop-down window and select 1/4 Note.

Figure 8.27: Note Value drop-down menu

Figure 8.27: Note Value drop-down menu

Once you click OK, Logic Pro will automatically...