Hi guys!
I am wondering can you export your sheet music as graphic files in galley view but not in page view?
I want to do that for editing a scrolling sheet music in my cover video.
If there is any way to do that please let me know, thank you guys.
Welcome to the forum! I don’t believe you can export what’s displayed in galley view, but you could set up your layout with custom page dimensions to recreate the effect - that is, a very, very wide and not very tall page.
Just video the screen while it’s playing?
this is exactly how I usually do it. The best thing about it? I can engrave for my score videos, so the music REALLY fits the format.
Both ways work fine. Also see this thread, might be good to know if you are going for the export graphic slice method. Size limit of graphic slice?
I’m trying to get this to work, but I can’t. I went into Layout Options and configured Size=Custom, Width=2000mm, Height=300mm, Orientation=Landscape. When I look at my score in Print mode, it does look sort-of-right, albeit with a ton of white space. I can’t figure out how to tell Dorico a custom page size for printing (the option is grayed out), but at least my entire score is there:
But when I export as PNG or TIFF, only the first third of the score gets printed; the rest is missing (this shown in the Finder’s preview):
If I open the PNG up in a graphics program, I see no notation at all.
What am I doing wrong?
First: don’t worry about the ‘shape’ of the page in Print preview. It can’t display custom sizes, but that isn’t a problem for what gets exported.
Both TIFF and PNG have maximum file size limits, though I don’t think you’re up against them, as you’ve only got a little over a million pixels. I’d use Mono instead of Color, though.
I would try exporting as a PDF, and then converting in a graphic program.
Thanks @benwiggy. I just tried this, and yes, it does work. Exporting to monochromatic PDF works as intended, then using Apple’s Preview to Export as PNG works. Thanks!
Small issue that I had actually been hoping to export the music transparently so I could do something visually interesting with a background, but I may be asking too much. Or I can probably manually do this in a graphics program by making all white pixels transparent.
You can apply a background to a PDF image easily. The ‘white’ isn’t white.
TBH, I’d recommend ‘keeping it vector’ if you’re going to do any graphic processing of the image.