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Scoring to Picture in Logic Pro

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837636891
Pages 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Prof. Chris Piorkowski Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Preface 1. Part 1: An Introduction to Scoring to Picture
2. Chapter 1: Understanding Film Music Industry Standards 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Film Scoring Terminology 4. Chapter 3: Reviewing QuickTime Video and Video Components 5. Part 2: Project Setup and Navigation
6. Chapter 4: Setting Up a Movie in Logic Pro 7. Chapter 5: Syncing Logic Pro to Picture 8. Chapter 6: Working with Hit Points and Scene Markers 9. Part 3: Methods of Scoring to Picture
10. Chapter 7: Creating Tempo Maps 11. Chapter 8: Working with Beat Mapping 12. Chapter 9: Working with a Time Signature 13. Part 4: Synchronizing Music to Picture
14. Chapter 10: Scoring a Commercial 15. Chapter 11: Shaping the Score and Exporting to Video 16. Chapter 12: Advanced Concepts for Dealing with Timing in Film Music 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating Tempo Maps

In the previous chapter, we learned how to deal with a spotting list and creating different types of markers, as well as how Logic Pro can extract markers from a movie.

One of the first, most important, and challenging steps when getting ready to score to picture is finding the appropriate tempo that best suits the film. The entire process of finding the tempo before scoring to picture is referred to as “laying out the cue”.

In this chapter, we will cover how to find an appropriate tempo and how to create a tempo map, by using SMPTE locked markers. We will also evaluate and look at the markers’ position numbers and their bar and beat locations along with the overall tempo. Additionally, we will explore different methods of finding the suitable tempo for a film and we will look at the benefit of using the Logic Pro tempo operation window.

So, in this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Dealing with tempo in film music...
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