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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

Editing a Beat Mapping track

When working in a Beat Mapping track, lines can be added accidentally sometimes by just clicking in the Beat Mapping track. You may not even realize that it happened, and lines can accumulate quickly. In this section, we will go over how they get inserted and how you can delete them.

You can insert a single beat mapping line by double-clicking anywhere in the Beat Mapping track. In Figure 8.31, the blue and white lines show a new beat mapping line:

Figure 8.31: Individual beat mapping

Figure 8.31: Individual beat mapping

To delete a single beat mapping line, double-click on the blue line with the pointer or eraser tool.

To delete all the beat mapping lines at once, click on the beat mapping track header, and Logic Pro will select all the beat mapping lines on that track:

Figure 8.32: Beat Mapping track with highlighted Beat Mapping markers

Figure 8.32: Beat Mapping track with highlighted Beat Mapping markers

Then, to delete all of them, hit the Delete key on the computer keyboard:

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