Jon talks to Toronto-based film and TV composer Joel Schwartz about the many aspects of what goes into being a media composer using REAPER, and highlight some of the advantages which make it the ideal choice for composers today.
In this first conversation we hope to cover the basics of the professional systems and requirements for composing, from project setup through to rendering.
Our next video together will deep dive into some of Joel’s more advanced custom workflows.
0:00:27 - Interview start
0:03:23 - What is a media composer?
0:07:45 - The project template
0:09:47 - Working in 2 project tabs
0:13:08 - Dialog and temp audio tracks
0:14:37 - fx for dialog reference track
0:16:34 - project regions
0:17:38 - what is spotting
0:19:09 - Assembly
0:20:17 - adding notes
0:22:13 - The Audio template
0:24:16 - Tempo
0:30:06 - track structure of audio template
0:30:53 - Navigating the big template
0:32:42 - A key difference from music production
0:36:11 - Mixing the music
0:38:57 - File naming
0:40:44 - Render settings
0:43:58 - That's basically it
0:44:15 - MIDI Controller
0:45:17 - expression & dynamics controller
0:45:55 - ensemble strings
0:46:28 - recommended string libraries
0:48:25 - closing thoughts
Find Joel online
https://joelschwartz.ca/
https://filmguitars.com/
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