Timeline or Time code or whatever you wanna call it
Im going to try and set up a score for a movie orchestration that I will be doing in few months.
Now first thing i found missing and much needed for this kind of job is timecode.
You have your staves,your 26-30 instruments score setup. And its common practice, and asked by many conductors and composers that they have a time line in the score itself. Meaning, you got your first bar and its on 0:00:01:295 of the movie for instance.. And so on and on... Its usually placed above some instrument, lets say above timpani...
I will update this later with the score done in different notation sofware if needed just so you guys can see exactly what im getting at
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This would be an great facility for a scoring program.
Hi
This was once discussed :).
In reply to Hi This was once discussed by chen lung
"Posted by chen lung on October 17, 2013 - 12:00am new
Hi
This was once discussed :)."
Manually is not the thing im looking for..
In fact MuseScore is halfway there with the Time Display in the Play Panel.
Unfortunately it is only calibrated in seconds, which isn't accurate enough for film work.
IIRC the standard used for film work is called SMPTE timecode this works in the format hours:minutes:seconds:frames and enables composers writing for film to synchronise a particular event in the score - a full orchestra "hit" for example with a particular frame in the film or video recording.
The only slight problem is that there is more than one standard for frame rate per second.
Europe uses PAL which is 25 fps
America uses NTSC which is 29.97 fps
There are also 24 fps and 30 fps standards one for film, one for ATSC
The user should be able to choose the frame rate standard they would be using (imposed by the film studio they are working with).
Certainly in Ubuntu I think there is the potential for using Jack to synchronise MuseScore's playback with film, and it is something we should definitely think about including sometime in the future - the problem may be, however, finding a programmer with the necessary skills/libraries/experience to insert this kind of code.
So if you know of anyone - point them in our direction :)
What would be very useful for film work is to copy the timecode displayed by the play panel and paste it in a Rehearsal mark at a user-defined event in the score.
Maybe something to think about for MuseScore 3??
In reply to In fact MuseScore is halfway by ChurchOrganist
Well said ChurcOrganist!