Importing the Movie into Your Sequencing Program NOTE: If you just want to put an audio file on the Internet without using a sequencer, proceed to step #5.

Using a sequencer/audio recording/editing application like Digital Performer allows you to to create synchronized original music that will go along with an existing video movie. Dead ques, "mickey-mousing," and stereo synchronized sound effects are all possible!

To actually score the QuickTime movie and assure synchronization you must keep the tempo of the particular session the same after importing the QuickTime movie file. Do not speed up or slow it down, because the movie will speed up and slow down too. One solution is to actually hand-make a click track for the sequencing program in FPS (frames per second). In this process, we can dump all of our MIDI events into separate digital audio files, as MIDI information will not "bounce" to a file with the digital audio into the QuickTime movie.

1. Open your digital audio program. Again we are using Digital Performer by Mark of the Unicorn and Pro Tools Project.
2. Through the Windowsoption, choose the movie window. This will open the QuickTime movie window where you can import your QuickTime movie through the menu option in that specific window. You should have the digital audio program and the movie up now.
3. Now that you have scored the movie you are ready to move on to mastering. To actually get the movie output with your now-CD-quality audio to a movie with 22 kHz 16-bit audio we are using Pro Tools. It has a nice Bounce to Movie menu option. To get from Digital Performer to Pro Tools I, we use the OMF Interchange file type.
4. Now that we've saved to an .OMF file, we're to convert it to Pro Tools. Open the OMF Utility program that should have come with your Pro Tools software.
5. Open the file.
6. You should have a fully functional Pro Tools file now. Open your file using Pro Tools (of course). In the Movies menu option and choose "Import movie."
7. Now that you have your movie open and all your tracks in Pro Tools all mixed to your desire it's time to "bounce" the movie and audio together into a self contained QuickTime movie. Choose the same menu as in step 5 and choose "Bounce to Movie." This is where you should be.
8. Choose your digital audio file output type by pressing the Settings button. Now choose your option: In this example we are choosing 22 kHz 16-bit QuickTime digital audio.
9. Bounce to disk.