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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

Importing a movie file

To review the entire movie file process, we will use the Mercedes-Benz.mov file, which you can find through the link in the Technical requirements section. You can import the file using any of the three methods we discussed, before moving on to the first stage.

Extracting audio from a movie file

After opening the movie file, an Open Movie dialog box will appear. As shown in Figure 4.9, Logic Pro gives you options to open or not to open a movie file, and the option to extract or not extract the audio track.

Figure 4.9: Open Movie dialog box

Figure 4.9: Open Movie dialog box

There may be times when only the audio file needs to be extracted without opening the movie and vice versa, but in general, Open the movie and Extract the audio track should be checked. Make sure that you do that now.

Setting up the sample rate

After selecting the option for opening the movie and extracting the audio track, Logic Pro will open another dialog box, prompting you to confirm...