Streamers, Punches & Flutters

Streamers, flutters and punches are visual cues that help composers, conductors and musicians to anticipate visual hits and, more generally, synchronize their music to what is happening on screen.

Digital Performer can superimpose streamers, punches and flutters directly on a QuickTime movie playing in Digital Performer’s movie window. This allows film and TV composers to collaborate more efficiently with music editors and better prepare for and conduct live orchestra sound stage scoring sessions. By bringing these visual cues to the native desktop, without expensive and cumbersome additional hardware, Digital Performer also paves the way for anyone to conduct small- to medium-scale scoring sessions in their personal and project studios.

Easy activation

Film scoring events can be activated in the Preferences pane:

Choose your settings

Streamers, punches and flutters are highly configurable. You can specify default settings and override them at any time on a specific streamer, flutter or punch event:

Easy programming

Streamers can be triggered by markers or by independent streamer events inserted in the Conductor track. Flutters and punches can also be inserted in the Conductor track as independent events:

Export a QuickTime movie

Once visual cues have been programmed as desired, they can be exported as part of the QuickTime movie, which can then be shared with colleagues for review or approvals before costly sound stage recording sessions with a full orchestra:

Quick and easy session changes

When time is ticking during costly sessions, changes can be made directly in your DP project quickly and effortlessly:

Third-party hardware support

Digital Performer's ability to trigger these visual cues has also been expanded to support the CueLine ProCue 1m1 and ClickStreamMachine, two third-party devices commonly used in the industry for live orchestra sound stage scoring sessions. You can also use a MOTU Digital Timepiece or Video Timepiece.

Film scoring events over FireWire

DP7 can now apply streamers, flutters, punches and all other visual cues directly to DV output (for NTSC monitoring) without the need to bounce them to a QuickTime movie beforehand.