Please help, trying to fit a set amount of measures to a time

[marblecatdog]

Ok, I'm doing a project for school and we are to score a short little movie file (2 minutes) and my prof explained it all to us and it was so simple but now my pro tools will not do it at all! All I'm trying to do is to get protools to make my movie fit into a certain number of measures. So right now the entire vidoe takes like 55 measure and 4.188 beats, how can I get that to a set and easy to use measure number, so the file ends at the beginning of measure 56 or something. And just to be clear I do not want to edit my video file, I need to edit the measure length but for the life of me I cannot find the magic button to do it. Thanks!

[albee1952]

I would record your audio close(to the correct time) in tick based, then use Elastic Audio to time-compress to the exact time you need. I bet there are other ways to get to the desired result so consider this one of several possibilities.

[marblecatdog]

I don't think that's what I need, I'm going to be working off a midi file for audio so I need to make sure the entire file to matched up to a set number of measures.

[marblecatdog]

I guess a better way to think about it might be for example that I'm trying to fit 10 seconds of video into 10 measures so how then do I make each measure 1 second long. How do I do that?

[necjamc]

You can turn off elastic audio and adjust the tempo to match what you need. Jus adjust then snap the file to the measure and adjust till it's exact.

[marblecatdog]

How do you turn off elastic audio? But does it even matter, there is no audio right now, just a silent video. and if it helps I'm on Pro Tools 7.4 LE

[necjamc]

Ok, try just adjusting the tempo and then spot the file to start at a certain measure and adjust to fit. It may take some practice, a little trial and error.
There might be a better way. That's how I do it.

[marblecatdog]

Ok, well I know there is a way to do this automatically, when my prof showed us he was able to get protools to change the tempo of the selected region to get a certain number of measures into the time, no guess work involved.

[necjamc]

You could select the entire video and then cntrl + zero (quantize to grid.

[marblecatdog]

Ok, I can do it by brute force by taking the total time for the selection, dividing it by the number of measures I want to fit into the time and then diving by the number of beats in a measure and then dividing 60 by that number, and then setting the tempo to that, but how do I make protools do that for me??????????