In this Audio Post production video I show you how to compose and score a film with real instruments in Pro Tools. If using MIDI VST’s and samples isn’t your style of film scoring, pick up a guitar and take some notes.

I go over everything from session setup to exporting stems, and record each instrument on camera. You don’t need terabytes of sample libraries to make music for a film, just your imagination, ears, and extremely composing mediocre chops.

0:00 Intro
1:48 Pro Tools Session Setup
4:44 Watching the scene
6:56 Using markers to start mapping the cue
12:16 Setting the start point of the cue
13:18. Finding and mapping the tempo
18:00 Mapping the cue with region groups on a track
19:22 Recording guitar
22:42 Recording an analog synth pad
25:00 Recording an analog synth arp
28:38 Recording drums
30:43 Recording electric bass
32:52 Recording acoustic guitar
33:01 Quick mix overview
36:17 Exporting the stems and stereo mix
38:55 Outro
39:28 Finished cue with full screen video

Gear Used:

Pro Tools Ultimate
Focusrite Sapphire 18i20
Fender Telecaster and Blues Deluxe
Allegra drums (made in Oregon)
Arturia Microbrute
Korg Minilogue
Sennheiser and Beyerdynamic Headphones
Beater bass
Beater Yamaha Acoustic Guitar
Shure, Sennheiser, and Rode microphones
Fabfilter Plugins
Waves H-Delay
FCP