This page includes video tutorials and recaps for content covered during in-class labs and lecture. Use these videos during a lab, as a refresher if you're rusty, or to catch up after an absence!
These tutorials cover skills related to DaVinci Resolve, including the Cut, Edit, Fusion, and Color Pages.
- Edit Page: Basic Coverage
Cutting together a scene shot with basic coverage using tools on the Edit Page. Includes basic editing, creating J-cuts and L-cuts, adding inserts, and cutting on action.
These tutorials cover skills related to Logic Pro, the digital audio workstation (DAW) used in Audio Broadcast and Musical Engineering courses. Videos are separated by topic and listed in the order they are introduced in class.
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Audio to MIDI
With Flex Pitch data from a recorded instrument or voice, create MIDI notes on a piano roll to use the notes and rhythms from your recorded performance to control software instruments!
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Composing for film: Project Setup, Tempo control, and export options
Adding a movie file to a Logic project, controlling tempo automation to match music to the action on screen, and exporting a new copy of the movie that includes your score.
- Sample Chopping and Resampling
Basic waveform editing, lining up samples to the musical grid, and using Logic Pro's "Bounce in place" feature.
- Using the Logic Pro Quick Sampler
Using the Quick Sampler to chop rhythmic samples and create playable pitched instruments from a single audio file.
¶ Recording and Editing Samples
- Loop Recording and Selection
Setting multiple tempos in a single Logic project, editing samples recorded to click to create perfect audio loops, naming regions to include information about tempo and key for each loop, and using Logic Pro's "Export X regions as audio files" feature.
- One-shot Sample Editing
Selecting samples, editing start- and end-points, naming sample regions, and using Logic Pro's "Export X regions as audio files" feature.
- Multi-sample Editing
Organizing samples into dynamic layers, editing start- and end-points, and naming sample regions (pitch + octave + dynamic layer).
¶ Creating Logic Instruments and Presets
- Building a Multi-sample Instrument (Sampler)
Importing multiple dynamic layers into the Logic Pro sampler to create a responsive, playable instrument.
- Saving Instrument and Channel Strip Settings + Prepping Presets for the Classroom Server
Saving your creations for use in other projects AND other workstations.