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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
13
Part 4: Synchronizing Music to Picture

Reviewing correct SMPTE timecodes in individual reels

In this section, we will review correct SMPTE timecodes in individual reels so that you know what they should look like and what you should ask for when working on multiple reels. Knowing this information will prepare you to score your film in Logic Pro more efficiently.

As mentioned previously, a feature film can be sliced into separate cuts or reels. Figure 2.22 shows five different reels with different timecodes:

Figure 2.22: Film reels

Figure 2.22: Film reels

We will now examine each individual reel with its BITC timecode, so that you know how to request reels with the correct BITC placement and 2-pop.

Figure 2.23 shows a countdown of Reel 1. The image on the left side shows the movie at the beginning of the reel, starting at TC 00:59:52:00. The image on the right side shows the passing of the 8-second countdown and the first frame where the film begins, at TC 01:00:00:00. Therefore the 2-pop should occur at...