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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

Copying the spotting notes list into Logic Pro

Making the spotting notes list available in Logic Pro is a helpful way of reading and accessing all of the notes without having to go in and out of a Word document.

Before copying the spotting notes list into Logic Pro, the movie file needs to be opened and synchronized to the picture. So, open the movie file Mercedes-Benz Cabrio C 300_BITC.mov, make sure that the movie and Logic Pro are in sync, and save the project.

Next, open the Mercedes Benz_Music Spotting Notes List.docx Word document again. After the document is open, select all of the content using the CMD + A shortcut and then use the CMD + C shortcut to copy all of the content selected.

Back in Logic Pro, click on the Notes button (or use the Option + CMD + P shortcut). Then, in the Notes window, click on the Project tab, and click on the Aa button in the upper-left corner of that window. Once Logic Pro displays a blinking cursor, click in the window and use the CMD...