Soundtrack: Create Original Scores for Video, Dvd, and the Web - Softcover

Plummer, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 032124690X ISBN 13: 9780321246905

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Got a mouse and a keyboard? Then you¿re ready to start making beautiful music with Apple¿s Soundtrack music arrangement software and this hands-on guide. With Soundtrack, you don¿t need to pay a composer or fork out royalty payments to start creating perfectly synched scores in no time. All you need, in fact, is this hands-on, Apple-certified guide, and you can begin taking advantage of Soundtrack¿s more than 4,000 audio loops and dozens of audio effects in your own video, DVD, and Web projects immediately. In this book/DVD combo, you¿ll find a complete, self-paced course in all aspects of Soundtrack¿from employing its interface to the secrets of creating original music, finding matching parts, mixing tracks, scoring to video, adding effects, and more. Step-by-step exercises, hands-on lessons, review questions at the end of each chapter, and a DVD crammed with lesson files¿plus dozens of composing tricks and loads of advanced editing tips¿make this the place to master Soundtrack.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Plummer has been editing film and video professionally for fifteen years using on-line, off-line, linear, and non-linear systems. An Apple Certified Trainer in Final Cut Pro, she has edited music videos, documentaries, educational videos, pilots, trailers, and independent feature films. Mary?s original music has been used in film and video projects from coast to coast. In 1998 she started her own BMI music publishing company and recorded her first CD ?Mother Earth Father Time,? which was mastered at A&M Studios in Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 032124690X
• ISBN 13: 9780321246905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320