Scoring To Picture

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Hi,

I am notating a film score in Dorico 5.1 and it is working very well. I am using different flows in the same project for each of the cues. I wanted to ask those who use Dorico for scoring:

  1. How do you handle various versions and revisions of a cue? I’m used to Logic where I just create alternatives of each cue. In Dorico, if I have all my cues on different flows in the same file, I worry I would lose track of which version is which by just using filenames to distinguish them. Is it better to just do each cue as its own file? Or is there a better way.
  2. How do you handle pre-roll when recording? I need to be able to deliver sheet music that starts at the beginning of the song, but I currently have 40 extra bars before the the music so I can see the lead in on the video. Seems like a pain to have to edit all my music come crunch time.
  3. Is there any way to have multiple audio files attached to a film? I would like to have a SFX file and all other audio file as two separate channels.

Thanks so much!

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Q1: Have a working layout or “composite” full score layout that holds everything. Then, in an “active” full score layout on can turn off the flows that are no longer current. If one puts a date stamp or other hallmark on each flow in Project Info, one can identify which flow holds the current version of a song.

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Q2: Does this help, or did you try that already?

Jesper

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Answering Q3 then: :slight_smile: Using a vst sample player on a separate staff named sfx or something is one way if you want to edit/control them from the score.

I find a number of advantages of keeping the video and any audio files in Cubase though, and syncing/controlling it from Dorico using some plugins which we will explain if you wish to go down that route. Though I like some features of Cubase pro very much, Cubase Elements will do for that.

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Thanks! I do see that and can get the video to start wherever I need it to, what I want to do is see the video before measure 1 of the cue. I would ideally have negative bars that didn’t show up on the player parts or full score. If I get a revision note to move the start time earlier or later, I could move where bar 1 is on the number line. Is that possible? Right now it feels like I have to stick with a set start point or re-align the video if I make an entrance timing change.