Recording a movie soundtrack

ColorForm2113 · Post by **ColorForm2113** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:46 pm

First off sorry if this is not the right forum, but seemed right to me.

So my friends and I have done some live improvised soundtracks to silent movies over the years and we want to take it to the next level and actually re-score some of these movies (not for profit or public distribution obviously as we do not own rights to these films) and hopefully get to work on soundtracks for movies professionally.

we just aren't sure on where to start on the software level. we want something that will sync video to MTC, Midi, etc. so if we are running our hardware sequencers or midi effects/lfos we can have them in time with the scene we are working on.

does anyone have any experience with this? thanks!

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:30 am

I use Pro Tools, it does a good job. Anything that can import video will work though, the director will give you a cut of the movie with SMPTE timestamp on the picture to score to. As long as you can import video and export a bounce at 48k (or 96k, depending on what the director wants) you'll be fine.

Post by **novielo** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 3:39 am

If i remeber well.
Cubase does it. You import a video and record your soundtrack.
It's been a while but i did some soundtrack years ago at a friends place

ColorForm2113 · Post by **ColorForm2113** » Tue Oct 09, 2012 4:40 am

Great thanks for the input! i will check out both of these and see which i click with. i believe i have used cubase before but not any deeper than pressing record.

ColorForm2113 · Post by **ColorForm2113** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 5:25 am

does anybody have any experience with final cut? or is that more limited on the audio recording side?

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 6:19 am

It's video editing software not audio.

ColorForm2113 · Post by **ColorForm2113** » Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:18 am

Oh ok, just imports audio files

Post by **novielo** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 7:18 am

Sony vegas can do both at the same time. Audio and video editing not sure about midi integration though

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 1:59 am

But you don't want or need any video editing capabilities when you're scoring a movie because they give you their edit, with timecode, and don't want you to touch a single thing in it.

ColorForm2113 · Post by **ColorForm2113** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 2:13 am

Yeah just looking to edit and record audio and sync it to the video

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:16 am

As far as I know you could use any of these:

Pro Tools
Ableton Live
Logic Pro
Cubase
Nuendo
Digital Performer

and probably some others. Just pick one that works for how you like to work and go with that. If you want to mix in surround that changes things a little but if you're just starting out then stereo will be totally fine and you can cross the surround bridge if/when people want you to work on bigger productions down the line.

ColorForm2113 · Post by **ColorForm2113** » Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:20 am

ive got some experience with ableton and cubase, so i will most likely go with one of those. yeah for right now we are just working in stereo. im not quite set up for surround sound production, once we start making money from this then we'll go down that road

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