The Best way to add music ahead of a film cue?

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OK, guys, I’d appreciate if someone might walk me through the best solution on this:

Let’s say you’ve been working on a film cue in Dorico which started at a certain point in the film like 01:05:10:00 , but now the director wants more music before that point in the film, now starting exactly at 01:04:10:00 (keeping it as simple as I can).

So in other words, you still want what you’ve already written to commence at 01:05:10:00, and you also need the NEW music with the same exact tempo, let’s say 110 BPM for everything, to start at or as close to 01:04:10:00 as possible and lead smoothly right into the 01:05:10:00 music.

My current solution has been to create a new video start point at 01:04:10:00 at 110 bpm and adding new bars ahead of the 01:05:10:00 cue in a trial-and-error sort of way until I get as close as I can, but this takes up time. Is there some kind of way I can play around with markers or something to achieve this faster?

Mucho Thank You to any responders

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I’m afraid I don’t think there’s a better way than your current trial-and-error method. With a calculator you can work out how many bars you need if you know the tempo you’re going to use, but Dorico doesn’t have a feature to handle this for you. It’s something we could potentially add in future.