I'll check out the vid. Maybe something went wrong with it. Thanks for the heads-up.
Ok... just got back from checking it, and what I found was that you just have to let it load. It takes a while. The video is 16 minutes long, and frankly, I have a hard time staying awake while watching it. I've got to shorten it and make it move faster. I'm just learning about doing demo videos. I just tried to demonstrate on too much music at once. I should have chosen a bar or two. Also, the audio is out of sync with the video by the end. Some of the most important points are in the last half of the video.
When you open the video window, do you get a new window with the Quicktime "Q" in it? If so, then it's opening properly. Just give it time. You may want to go ahead and let it be loading while you read the rest of this post.
Go ahead and click here, and push it into the background while it loads. Leave your audio turned on so that you can tell when it starts. Then come back and read the rest of this post while waiting. If no page comes up with the Q on it, would you let me know? I may need to move it to a different folder in my iDisk.
The key points are:
1) ALWAYS use two tracks at once: the Conductor Track, and the musical track to which you want to align everything. The latter may be MIDI or Audio, but the other one always has to be the Conductor Track.
2) The two tracks must be perfectly aligned so that your beats in both windows line up. The importance of this will become apparent in a moment
3) Because of #1 and #2, you may want to use the Sequence Editor to do this, since the tracks by necessity will be aligned. If you prefer to use the MIDI Graphic Editor, you'll need to do it in Consolidated Windows, and you'll need to OPTION-CLICK and DRAG in the time ruler of each window to zoom them to the same zoom level, so they will line up perfectly.
4) Use the COMMAND Key to toggle the grid on and off. When there is a note falling exactly on the beat, you can drag the beat line and let it "Snap" to the note. When there is no note falling on a particular beat, you'll need to use the Command Key to turn off Grid/Snapping, so that you can drag the beat line to the right place without it wanting to snap to the nearest neighboring note.
5) When there is no note or other landmark to which to position a beat line, how do you know where to place it? Now is when you learn why I insist on steps 1, 2, and 3. As you move the beat line around, watch what happens to your tempo markers in the Conductor Track. Where there is no perfectly aligning note, you use those tempo markers as your guide. They should level out when you have it "right."
If you've been opening the video while reading this, chances are that it's already started, or will soon. You'll note in the vid where I have gone over the points above (though I didn't number them this way). Good luck staying awake, but if you do, I think you'll understand this feature pretty well.
Shooshie
