Taking Cuebase to the movies:
Why does a PowerMac G5 with technically double the processing capability of my home PC seem to offer only half the functionality? It seems like every time I try to resize part of a screen, use a command function, or attempt anything that resembles standard operation I have to search for the Mac equivalent of whatever it is I feel should be a natural function. Can’t all these computer manufacturers just get along and make it easier for the consumer to cross platforms?
Anyway, I have successfully (after some aggressive hair loss) managed to sync a cheesy midi sequence to the ever so exciting movie we were given to work with this week. Once all my commands were sorted it was pretty straightforward and worked just like Christian said it would on Thursday. There is a strange timing issue at the beginning, which seems to resolve itself at the third bar so I’ll be seeking some clarification on that next week.
After painstakingly setting marker points at each screen change I discovered that one cannot resize the information column for the marker track. Therefore you need to scroll across the column to view your marker descriptions and then scroll back to click in the column for jumping to their locations – absolutely ridiculous, why even have the column there in the first place if it can’t serve the same functionality as the marker window?
I didn’t quite work out how the 25 frames per second counts out on the screen so I put my faith in the system once all the relevant indicators were showing the correct time and frame rate. It seems that we have entered the field at a time when it is becoming easier to create a film score that flows with the images on screen from a practical perspective. I shudder to think how difficult it must have been (and still is) to coax a performance out of a conventional orchestra that matches a films sporadic time code.
More on this subject in future weeks – hopefully with some MPEG examples on the blog……
Reference:
Christian Haines. ‘MIDI and Movie Sequencing in Cuebase’. Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, 4th floor, Schulz building, University of Adelaide University. 27/07/06.
posted by David J Dowling @ 3:35 PM
2 Comments:
Regarding your Mac comments, the answer is that they are best suited to cashed-up baby boomer retirees with 4WDs, who go golfing on weekends, then come home to their blueberry iMacs to "send an email" to good old Aunt May in Switzerland or something... and brag about their wonderful new fast computer, that the salesperson reckons is "far superior to a PC"... I mean hey, if it looks good, it must be better? "Of course" they say... and it's "only $2999" wow bargain...
Fools......
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