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Hey all, I have been using dp for 10 years but am relatively new to the world of using it for high level scoring work...
here is the situation I am trying to improve:
I am scoring to picture at 58 bpm. The music comes to a climax, then stops.
a few seconds later, the theme starts again, in time with a new image onscreen.
What is the best way to score/conduct that arbitrary rest, so that when the theme starts again, it is lined up properly with DP's measure markers?
At present, I usually just slow down the tempo to create the right length rest, but this is an awkward process. I imagine I could create new time signatures for a few measures to solve the same problem (like a measure of 13/8, say) but this seems highly awkward.
Is There a Better Way?

Are you actually conducting musicians, or are you talking about the conductor track? If it's the conductor track, just put in the long measure or really slow tempo whatever's most convenient. If you are actually conducting, it's fairly common to have musical cues that start and stop. Have the first cue stop, then program in metronome streamers or flashes in DP that count off into the beginning of the new cue.

bkshepard wrote:Are you actually conducting musicians, or are you talking about the conductor track? If it's the conductor track, just put in the long measure or really slow tempo whatever's most convenient. If you are actually conducting, it's fairly common to have musical cues that start and stop. Have the first cue stop, then program in metronome streamers or flashes in DP that count off into the beginning of the new cue.

+1

Exactly. Even if you didn't stop the music, you could just sustain it as if it was a fermata, and the streamer/punch would cue you, so you can conduct the musicians for the 2nd entrance of the theme.
And as BKShepard wrote, if you are not conducting real musicians, just make whatever measure change you need to make it fit. Or slow the tempo using the automated feature in the Change Tempo dialog box. It'll figure out the necessary tempo for you, so it conforms automatically to hit your marker perfectly.

Thanks guys...I will explore both of these...