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Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
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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...

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Published in: Sep 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837636891

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Prof. Chris Piorkowski

Professor Chris Piorkowski is an award-winning composer, with a Masters in Music Technology from the University of Newcastle in Australia, an MFA majoring in Music Composition for Film, TV and Multimedia from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, a Diploma in Media Composition from Music for The Media in London, and another Diploma in Sound Engineering from the Audio Institute of America in San Francisco. He has also studied Film Scoring and Orchestration at Berklee College of Music in Boston as well as Film Music Orchestration Steven Scott Smalley and Jazz Piano with Walter Norris. In his professional life, he has worked on countless projects at the legendary Sound City Studios in Los Angeles scoring over 50 projects for TBN, ShowTime, PBS, and Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek).
Read more about Prof. Chris Piorkowski