“I know what it's like to have something sound good in text, but not work in the editing. If the scene above is too short, so be it. I thought it kind of had length since it stretches right off the back of the "handing power to Jar jar" scene. It is a romantic beat (as reduced here -- seeing Padme recognize for the first time that Anakin is more than taller-- he's wiser too) -- I think I wanted to suggest keeping this since we could probably use all the romantic beats that reveal themselves.
Glad to see you pop up now and again! We're counting on you for not only SOTD, but as you suggested, for a quality control pass on the Ep I edit.
I'll post final thoughts when I finish your notes.”
Great! Thank you. I will not let you folks down, that’s for sure. Work is really going slowly but very well on my end lately. I look forward to your comments.
“I've read over your notes, very interesting and I'll be sure to put together an organized response when I get the time.”
And your comments! Thanks. Thank you as well, Twister. I didn’t realize I had that line wrong- I’ll check it out.
“For now though, I've been wondering how do you change the key of all those music tracks? I assume it's with some type of music orchestration program but I could be way off. Such knowledge would be beneficial to us over at Starkiller Ranch.”
This is going to sound overly simple, but I don't need an orchestration program for this- I just raise or lower the pitch using SoundForge. I’ve done this both by simply speeding up or slowing down the audio, or by using a tool they have to raise or lower pitch and still preserve the duration (you have to specify, though). The latter usually works best with some post-processing afterwards, such as a subtle echo, because otherwise the track tends to sound strange. Or, you could do a combination of both those methods (as I did with “Asteroid Chase” in the Coruscant chase). I started out by preserving the duration, then for the main section I switched seamlessly to a sped up version (the quality of which is better anyway). The beauty is that it’s all in the same key.
More later!
-TM