At 10:24 PM -0500 11/8/02, Crystal Premo wrote:
I just got a call from a film maker who wants me to make her midi files into Finale files, clean them up and print them out in parts. Sounds easy enough, but what would be the process?
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I asked her to have the composer call me and describe what he has done.Argghhh. Not many people can do this work. It is in the category I call "idiot work that can only be performed by a PhD." Not that it takes a doctorate to do this, but it does take someone who has trained a lifetime in music AND has music/computer skills.
Then, if that sounds sane, to bring it to me before I can quote any sort of price based on $25/hr.
$25 an hour isn't enough.
It wouldn't be the first time. I've had to do a lot of that kind of notation from sound alone, where I realized that all those ear-training classes were justified. But I've done a lot of "untangling the Christmas lights" kind of MIDI nonsense as well.Also has this music been step recorded or quantized into some kind of order, or just played in with a keyboard any old way. If the latter, I'd run for the hills. You're better off getting a recording and notating it by ear. <<
Not an option for me. Want to take over if it comes to that? :>
Perhaps one or two of the strings have been wound neatly around a piece of cardboard. I will hope for the best until I see the files.Well, I wish you well. I've just finished a two-year hell of sorting out files that were not exactly MIDI'd but played into Encore. Gack. But that's another book...
Good luck, Crystal, and I hope you get the files in decent shape!
Linda
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