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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
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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

Understanding video file components

In this section, we will take a look at two of the main components of the Inspector window – General and Video Details – looking at the settings that are most useful to a film composer.

For reference, Figure 3.2 is a closer look at the Inspector window with its components:

Figure 3.2: QuickTime Inspector window

Figure 3.2: QuickTime Inspector window

Now, let’s review the components that are important for a composer to understand.

General

Under General, we will look at four main settings – Resolution, Data Size, Video Format, and Audio Format.

Resolution

Video file resolution is referred to as the dimensions of a video file with x number of pixels. The Resolution section in Figure 3.2 shows the video dimension as 1280 x 1080 for this movie file; that means the movie file is 1,280 pixels wide and 1,080 pixels high.

The more pixels the movie has, the larger the file is. For example, if you want to view your movie...