Thursday, 4 February 2010

Using Livetype And Soundtrack Pro Tutorials.

Skills Audit

My class had a introduction lesson to use Live Type and Soundtrack Pro. We got taught the basics and had a feel of using the programs.

Live Type Tutorial


My class familiarized ourselves with using Live Type, which is used mainly to create titles for your title sequence. It is quite similar to Final Cut Pro, in terms with having a time line and different canvas's for different uses.
Live Type has many different backgrounds, effects, video transitions and fonts to create a original looking opening sequence. It could be combined with clips and in addition, extra effects could be added in.

There is a canvas where you could look at your title sequence and visually view it, and two smaller windows beside it- one is where you can browse through the different types of fonts, 'Livefonts', textures, objects and effects and view them. Beside it is where you can alter the different types of effects such as the style, timing and attributes.
The time line could also have layers of different effects and music which can all be placed on the time line and be edited around to make it last a certain amount of time.

Live Type is useful program to easily make a title sequence or use quick simple editing to create a effective moving image.


Soundtrack Pro Tutorial


We also got taught how to use Soundtrack Pro, which is where you can create your own original music or sound effects.
There is a empty time line canvas where you can combine different instruments or sounds to create your own music. There is also a browser menu where you can listen to the different sounds- such as sound effects, instruments etc. You then can drag it for it to be placed in the canvas, which you can edit the time length or where it is placed exactly.
There is also different windows which you can alter around the sounds/soundtrack or looking at the sound meters in your created soundtrack.
You can also add in a recording or anything from a audio clips to be added into the browser menu.

Soundtrack Pro is only used for audio editing, which is useful for copyright reasons if we was to use music or sounds from a different producer.

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