CHAPTER 14

Working with Music

 

 

 

image ROSE’S RULES

Even if you can’t play a note, there are specific things you can do that’ll give your project a better music track.

Music editing can actually be quick and painless. But it’s not intuitive, not taught in most software manuals, and (unfortunately) not the dialog-editing technique you learned in the previous chapter.

And a rule from somebody else

“Music is the least expensive and most effective tool any producer has, or will ever have”—Doug Wood, president of the Omnimusic library.

Was The Jazz Singer the first Hollywood movie with a musical score?

Not by a decade. Long before Al Jolson’s ...

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