http://composerstribe.tribe.net/thread/b1d80d41-a4e8-4556-9fbd-fa24239fb69a?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://composerstribe.tribe.net/thread/b1d80d41-a4e8-4556-9fbd-fa24239fb69a#5f8fa752-921a-4f62-89bb-a937df8a2ece Since my past experience has been dance choreography and short films, I have some technical type questions about how you manage your compositions on a cue-heavy feature length film. Since this is an indie feature and I am doing ALL sound mixing in post, I have the benefit of having a lot of flexibility in how I manage the process and what I use for software, so there are no inherent platform issues. I will be doing the compositions in Cubase and then exporting either pre-mix stems (I mean the music broken into parts, i.e. strings on one stem, percussion on another stem, etc) or just a single music stem. I guess my first question would be, which version and why would you use it? I am leaning towards pre-mix stems to later apply compression or eq'ing during final mixdown to move around dialogue and sfx, etc. Also, since I am only going to be able to run one system (an older P4, 3.2gHz, 3GB RAM machine) for all sequencing and Gigastudio sessions and audio tracks, would I be okay with having separate sessions for different parts of the composition? Or is there a benefit to keeping the entire film and all compositions in one session prior to mixing stems? I am also wondering (before I get too far in) if it is even manageable to have huge track counts in one project session? I may need to "break" the film up into sections to avoid too much of a load on my machine. As of today I have only completed the first 5 minutes of the composition and I have used 2 instances of GVI (VST based Gigastudio) fully loaded and a few more VST synths and everything is running well at low latencies. If I rewire in Gigastudio though I think I may hit the ceiling quickly. I believe the picture is locked at this point and no further edits are being made, but the potential distribution people haven't seen it yet and offered their "input." And if anyone is curious, it's a small budget independently produced zombie type horror movie, so there will be a lot of sound effects type music as well as strings and percussion and synths. Thanks! -Jeremy Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:49:44 GMT http://composerstribe.tribe.net/thread/b1d80d41-a4e8-4556-9fbd-fa24239fb69a#5f8fa752-921a-4f62-89bb-a937df8a2ece jeremy 2008-04-15T17:49:44Z