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Scoring on the computer.. Any Special Hardware?

Edgen

Edgen

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I'm sure most of you being the seasoned professionals that you are... What would you recommend to score a movie or commercial scene. Do you ask the client for a QT or AVI timecoded? And, if so, what type of video card are you using to play back your video without it skipping and dropping frames as your MIDI plays along.

Right now, my setup is gigastudio 2.5 with Sonar 2.0 running a win98 machine with 1 gb of ram. I'm sure win98 has something to do with it, but is there a specific setup or system that I should look into? Personally, I'm getting tired of opening Windows Media Player and jotting down the time code and then placing markers within sonar. There's gota be less then ghetto way than this?

I'm getting to the point where I'm venturing into getting some new hardware and taking this to the next level. If anything, I just want some bragging rights to my friends who are music retards or haven't a clue what I actually do for a living. :shock:
:D

/j
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I ask for a QT file. It drops right into Logic, either on top of the sequence in a floating window or not (you can specify which.) I use Mac G5 so instead of having to chase timecode I simply sequence the entire thing. Then I check on the actual QT file (you can do this with QuickTime Pro) to find the frames per second ratio. Then I render the audio file and drop it into the video (usually a copy of the original - I always try to keep the original intact) and voila!

This method saved me thousands on video monitors, timecode machines, etc, so I could get back to doing what I like to do best which is score.
 
I have an ADVC-100 capture box in case the client does not supply a digitised file. I can also output the music onto a VHS cassette if need be to show the director.

Its best to ask for a burned in time-code in case a scene fades up from black or something and you have no initial point to sync to.

Frederick - I think this would make an excellent seperate thread/poll/stickie/whatever, it would be interesting to hear everyone's methodologies; what compression they're using, picture size, file format, hardware setup etc.

What'ch ya think? :)
 
Hi Justin,
I also use QT in Cubase SX. I haven't tried importing a whole movie as one file yet but 20 minutes files have worked fine.
I believe there is a bug in SX when using a video track because once every 20 sessions, the program freezes. I backup every 5 minutes so it's ok for now.
Waiting on an upgrade that will take care of that...
 
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