From the course: Logic Pro X Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Setting up for a sync video project

Setting up for a sync video project - Logic Pro Tutorial

From the course: Logic Pro X Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Setting up for a sync video project

- [Instructor] Film and video composers love Logic. It makes total sense why they would. Logic supports importing any video that Apple QuickTime will play plus it has some powerful workflow features that make scoring to video a dream. In this movie we'll explore how to import video into Logic and get everything set up to create your perfect soundtrack. First let's get our Logic window views optimized for working with video. Since we're working with time based material, you might find it useful to change our LCD menu to reference time along with bars and beats. Let's go in here to the pull down menu. and let's choose Custom and when you choose Custom you get all of the information but notably, we get SMPTE timecode up here at the top and then bars and beats below. SMPTE timecode is the standard way to measure time for video formats and just like it does here, your timeline usually begins with hour one, then you have minutes, seconds, frames and sub frames and here we can see them…

Contents