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Published inSep 2023
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Prof. Chris Piorkowski
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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Using Beat Mapping scene markers

In Chapter 7, we discussed how to find the most suitable tempo using the Tempo Operations window. In this section, we will use Beat Mapping scene markers to create a tempo map, also referred to as “laying out the cue,” which can be a faster way to help find an appropriate tempo.

We will use the Mercedes commercial to practice this task. However, the skill you will learn in this section can be used in any type of scoring project. You can take this skill and apply it to your own existing projects. The importance of this exercise is to become familiar with and have experience in beat mapping scene markers. Out of all the different tools available in Logic Pro, this is the most used task and, in general, the one most commonly preferred by film composers.

To do this, open the Mercedes-Benz Cabrio C 300_BITC.mov movie file that you saved in Chapter 6, with the SMPTE-locked scene markers. Make sure that the movie and Logic Pro are in sync...

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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