Cubase Pro Essentials for Film Composers-The Time Warp Tool!

The Time Warp tool is powerful, but a little hard to master. This video goes over the basics of using it for film composition.
I'm using Steinberg's Iconica Orchestral library to make new music for a video that my wife and I created 2 years ago.
The final video with its original soundtrack can be seen here: • Unleash the Super Hero...
Thanks for watching!

[@stevebanham4475]

This is absolutely the best description of how the warp tool works in cubase for video. Many many thanks for making a clear explanation for a tricky but essential tool in cubase.

[@jefgibbons]

You’re welcome Steve! It’s a powerful tool!

[@sournoteproductions]

I have used Time Warp for film, but you just brought it to a new level with putting the puzzle together. Thank you for sharing this knowledge!!

[@bgwilliam6387]

A very helpful lesson, Jef! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us here, and please do more tutorials on film-composing & soundtrack skills! Thanks in advance!!

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks BG William! More to come for sure!

[@heycraig1]

You’re videos are so well done Jef! So clear, and extremely helpful! Thanks a ton! :)

[@cali3168]

Thank you so much for these tutorials. Recently switched to Cubase Pro after 10 years of Logic and your videos have been extremely helpful.

[@zooglah]

Thank you for this! I've been having trouble understanding this tool for a while but your video has helped me understand it so much better.

[@jefgibbons]

So glad to hear it, it gets easier to use every time you use it!

[@annabellamusic]

Jef, this is the most helpful and comprehensive tutorial! This is just what I need to take my compositions to the next level. Thank you very much, AB

[@scantrontest]

Hey Annabella.. do you know how to keep the video from sliding when you program tempo changes?

[@AlistairLindsay]

Thank you for making this really helpful and inspiring tutorial!

[@borregof]

Great tutorial! Thank you Jef! Newbie here; this is all very overwhelming and exciting all at once. Can't wait to learn more.

[@e51v50h]

Loving these lessons. Thank you for taking time to post these. Very informative and well thought out. ;)

[@jefgibbons]

You're welcome, thanks for the comments Joe! Keeps me going!

[@georgesanchez3918]

I was looking for a video about time warping since I'm just barely using cubase and I saw the biopod video, good job! it made me laugh. I like your videos Jef and the way you explained them, I'm already subscribed to this channel*

[@simonrigby2776]

Great video Jef. It's a fantastic feature and really well explained in a practical real world situation.

[@tubeman1983]

Great content and well explained! I'm getting started with Cubase and film scoring so it's a bit overwhelming at the beginning. I'd love to see more tutorials like this. Thank you! 👍

[@rizzleriz4457]

@1:23 Went and watch the vid, great ad/vid! Great soundtrack...now back to this

[@alexandrelevy3916]

Really EXCELLENT!! Very,very,very helpful!! Thank you Jef!

[@clydecrooks]

Fantastic tutorial. Super comprehensive. thank you !

[@jefgibbons]

Most welcome Clyde!

[@hotz730]

Super super helpful! Thank you for this video!

[@DealerCamel]

Very helpful and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! (Great music too!)

[@JESSEROYAL]

exactly what i was looking for... thanks for the high production value and clear explanation... great work!

[@jefgibbons]

You’re welcome Jesse!

[@isolamusic6205]

Thank you very much, Jef!!! This helped a lot!

[@jackiez1012]

Man you are Awesome! Love all of your videos!I'm a cubase guy, just found your channel，it help's me alot! I'm a chinese musician, I was making music for the Lexus car commercial, this video is gonna help me alot in the future！Thank you so much! have a nice day!

[@VirgoProductionsKenya]

Very informative. Thank you so much, Jef the gems you share help so much...

[@jefgibbons]

Glad to hear it!

[@josefernandoelias3164]

Thank you so much, Jef! Time Warp is always so a delicate Function! Please more Videos about this. Best regards from Austria,

[@jefgibbons]

+jose fernando elias thanks Jose! I’ve been to Austria... LOVED it!! I’ll look at more vids on that in the future!

[@chromofonic]

Excellent material!

[@jens1800]

May, 2021 - Still fantastic! Thanks!

[@jaikumarsivalingam]

This is awesome! Thanks, Jef!

[@NelsonSantoni]

Very helpful: thank you very much for this tutorial!

[@jammusique]

Very well explained, thanks!!

[@claudius3124]

Excellent tutorial, thanks a lot!!!!!!

[@sssbbb]

This is the best tutorial out there! I wish Ableton had this but the concepts are still useful :)

[@ilkayboraoder]

Upvoted! Super well explained

[@markdavenport2613]

Great information here! Subscribed

[@ewwitsantonio]

i just gave you your 1000th like on this video! that felt good for some reason. haha. excellent demonstration. a huge help!

[@jefgibbons]

Awesome!! I appreciate it ;)

[@hotz730]

Great video! Thank you for sharing

[@rickressort]

Thank you, this video helped me a lot, and was exactly the info I needed!

[@jefgibbons]

Glad to hear it!

[@timothycleary]

super helpful, thank you!

[@massimosammi]

Fantastic video, thank you!

[@jefgibbons]

Most welcome Massimo!

[@iftekharulanam]

This is incredible help! Thank you! 💜

[@jefgibbons]

You're welcome!

[@armondtanz]

Interesting to see the workflow. It is a nightmare to get your head around this, im trying it for the firs time. Im just creating a mess at the moment. Some great tips to see where im going wrong wrong. Thanks for upload :)

[@gaston.barthelemy]

Great video!

[@indiegroundvid]

Very interesting video mate and it will surely very helpfull in a near future. i do sometimes music for vidéos so thanks very much

[@JacobPernell]

Super helpful tutorial - thank you!!

[@jefgibbons]

Glad you dig it Jacob!

[@AmitKachhap]

Very helpful!!! Please share some more videos related to scoring for videos. Thanks!!!

[@LRonHagar]

Thanks for making this! For years I've been struggling with Cubase when it comes to dealing with tracks that have time-AND-tempo constraints, like music separated by chunks of dialog that happen to be as long as the dialog happens to be. I'm not sure that I've quite yet wrapped my head around the paradigm, but I feel that I'm closer to a workable method...

[@grmusicnyc]

Coming from Logic and I have to relearn a lot of stuff to adapt my previous knowledge to Cubase... and somehow I always end up on your channel :) Really grateful for your great videos! Thank you Jef!

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks GBR! Glad to hear it!

[@Yargasblarg1]

I'm just wondering. Using Logic rn and considering switching. Does a feature like this one exist in Logic. Been having alot of trouble syncing music to picture in it

[@jean-francoispotvin776]

I love it !!!! Good job.

[@jefgibbons]

+jean-francois potvin much appreciated!!

[@milenadeltorto7158]

Amazing!

[@ZmoPaR]

Great lesson thanks!

[@jefgibbons]

My pleasure!

[@nikibuz1]

Very helpful ! Bravo

[@jefgibbons]

Most welcome!

[@kerrysmith]

This is a great demonstration of how to use this tool in scoring. Thanks! Any interest in making a follow-up showing how you'd manage a conform/revision to a new video cut where a segment had to be removed and the adjacent chunks had to be partly filled or joined? Including an audio track or two?

[@Lol_Pig]

Best tutorial videos on KZbin

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks so much!!

[@Lol_Pig]

Literally just got my Maschine mk3 in and cannot thank you enough for not only what you are explaining but how you explain it!

[@bonuebonue]

Thank you very helpful!!

[@jefgibbons]

Glad it helped!

[@bobbygipson7286]

The best damn video I've seen..OMG..thanks for this video I can finally compose now👏👏👏👏👌

[@jefgibbons]

Nice! Glad to hear it!

[@miladia6781]

great !

[@edrugmanmusic]

Wonderfully clear Video Jef!! Thankyou. Is there any chance of showing some uses of the warp grid mode of the tool too (events don’t follow?)

[@jefgibbons]

I plan to for sure! I didn't want to make this video too confusing... But it's great for when you want to warp the grid around midi notes that were played freely. Then you can have a grid that lines up to anything that was played without a click track! Then you can re-conform that track to line up with a single tempo if you want, or just leave it as a constantly changing tempo.

[@rasolzamini8678]

great video

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks Rasol!

[@NickandJane]

Excellent Jef - do you have any advice about composing with acoustic instruments for film, this is our latest challenge?

[@JMQuintanaCamara]

Thanks Jef for such a great explanation of this Time Warp tool! You clearly explained it with a great example. I only have a question about synchronization that was not covered in your video (maybe it is more advanced or maybe it has nothing to do with Time Warp tool and it has to be done in a different way): how do you do a ritardando or accelerando to synchronize with a marker? is it possible to transition from one marker to another with a ramp instead of a jump? The only way I find is to do the ramp (rit or acc) in the Tempo track but then Time Warp stops working :( I hope you have time to answer this question. Thank you very much in advance.

[@jefgibbons]

Sorry for the late reply... Yeah, the ramp doesn't work when using the time warp tool! I wish it did... but to fix that, I've used something like a tempo jump every 16th note division... a bit tedious but it works!

[@beboppbebopp]

@@jefgibbons I'm having the same problem. I hope Steinberg will find a solution

[@benshirleymusic]

Thank you for the video. I fought all day with the Warp Tool. I just rewatched your video and had an "A-HA!" moment. Can't wait to get back to work tomorrow. Question: You said you have a video "Use Video Follows Edit Mode." Looking through your site and can't find it. Could you drop a link? Thanks again and Happy New Year!

[@jefgibbons]

So glad it helped! Here you go kzbin.info/www/bejne/inusn2Vpmpt0m9U

[@Dmitry_Perelekhov]

Thank you)

[@iseeu-fp9po]

Great video, but all I'm looking for right now in Cuabse is how to start a new bar, (on the 1), anywhere.

[@ladislavmertlik]

amazing Jef! what could be reason my video is not visible in video track - I used MOV video file and setup correct frame rate in project settings

[@Jonassonk]

Awesome lesson! Only used time warps/time markers in Reaper which is a pain in the ass compared to this!

[@jefgibbons]

Thanks! It was a tough video to articulate properly, I'm glad it helped!

[@Manuelrehse]

Great video and awesome home studio! Maybe you can help me with something. I would like to create my own soundtrack for my short films. I have already decided to go for Cubase but I don't know which version to get. What is the difference between the artist and pro version when it comes to film scoring? I checked the Cubase webpage but I don't really understand the extra features in the pro version.

[@TheRangeControl]

I had to watch a few times to get my head around it, but I think that i kind of get it.

[@stevenm.schwartz9420]

Awesome video. How do you go about locking your video smpte timecode, so that it’s in synch?

[@tomtomico]

Todd these techniques have been so valuable for me in Cubase. 🙏 Do you know what's the equivalent tool for it in Studio One? (Which is SUCH a breeze to use, I'm gradually switching to after 16 years with Cubase)

[@Ash_Todd_]

Exactly the video I needed for time warping to video! Thank fuck for that

[@lefteriscomposer]

Hello Jef, great video, thank you! A question if you have the time to please answer. In the case you then wanted to record this specific cue live and the players were playing to your click track. What would you do with that small section in bar 4 where the tempo dropped in order to get your matching tempo at 118 afterwords? (ie: punch in again?). Thank you

[@jefgibbons]

Great question! My bet is they'd get the hang of it after a few listens, but if not you could easily throw in some 8th note high hats or even beeps so they can feel the tempo shifting better than just with the click track.

[@chrisfetchkoproductions7256]

Is there any way to Snap to Markers when using the Time warp Tool. For example, why guess trying to move a marker to a certain beginning of the measure?

[@counterpoint1014]

Hi Jeff. I have Vienna Ensemble Pro which works well with my slave computer. Although, I’m thinking of integrating Vienna Mir Pro for reverb. Do you use it with Cubase? If so, do you recommend it?

[@hugisanmusic]

🙏🙏

[@stevenm.schwartz9420]

Also, is there a way in cubase pro 10 to export the video with the new audio or midi that you have recorded.

[@jaydenz8467]

Thanks for the wonderful tutorial Jef. Cubase does not export video. How this change will be recalled in video editor? Would not video be out of sync with audio? And one has to synch video with audio again in video editor. Maybe i am missing something but i appreciate if you can reply. Thanks in advance :)

[@jefgibbons]

Yeah, if an editor makes a change, you’d have to make the same change in your project. Not horrible to deal with, unless there are many changes!

[@fromthecastle4486]

How do you keep the video from moving when changing tempo?

[@bmiguelmiranda]

What's the best approach to start a film music project? Place all the markers and align them with bars even when no music is written, or place the markers, write the music and then align the markers with bars? Great video!

[@jefgibbons]

Great question, but you don’t necessarily want to limit yourself right away to those bars. I like to set it as I go, try what makes sense, then decide if I need to try less bars at a slower tempo, etc. thanks for watching!

[@AndreasvanHaren]

Hi Jef! Thanks so much for your tutorials. I am a new cubase user, using cubase 10 (coming from Logic X). How would you approach a film scoring project for a say, 1 1/2 hour long movie? Do you score the full movie in a single cubase project, or do you score the separate cues in separate projects and combine them later in a "Master" project file?

[@jefgibbons]

+André van Haren thanks Andre! I’ve always managed to make them work in one huge project. It got complicated, but I’d freeze tracks that weren’t used a lot, and having everything there just makes copying and pasting themes so much easier. I used to have multiple PCs for this, but a modern computer with at least 32gb of ram should get you pretty far!

[@AndreasvanHaren]

​@@jefgibbons Thanks! At the moment I work on a, 21 inch i5 Mac (4 cores) that has only 8 GB of ram which is a pain, coming from a 32 GB Mac. This 21 inch model has to be completely taken apart to add more ram, which I don't think I can do myself. So for now, I will have to keep my movie projects small, best probably one cue at the time.

[@jens.3277]

What version of cubase are you using here please?

[@Gauravanartist]

I wanted to buy a DAW for audio post-production for films, and I bought Cubase 13 Pro. I was not aware of Nuendo, which is designed for post-production. Am I out of luck now? Can't afford the upgrade now.

[@scantrontest]

Hey there.. great video.. but I wonder if anyone has this issue.. whenever program a temp change..the video moves! Locking the video track doesn't help.. any ideas? My video starts at bar 5 because I like some bars to be in front of frame 1... but when I program tempo changes.. the video slides around

[@jefgibbons]

Hmm, drop an anchor at bar 5 and you should be good!

[@photodennis76]

hey jef plz can you do video about video mixdown how you put all things togheter video and audio

[@jefgibbons]

+photodennis76 hi Dennis, do you mean a video on how I produce my KZbin vids? That’s a great idea!

[@markheighes1218]

Glub Glub thank you.

[@jefgibbons]

Rest in piece (of cheese)

[@keshavchaitanyaofficial2928]

💕💕💕💕😊

[@bensmirmusic]

Didn't understand what you did there with the time signature, I m trying to watch it several times

[@jefgibbons]

What exact location in the video are you referring to?

[@TheRangeControl]

Why not Nuendo?

[@strone1]

now if only it would work with the ramp tempo change setting, instead of only jump...

[@cometogether420]

The one thumb down is jealous about how professional you are or is someone from Greenpeace. Rip Glub Glub.

[@jefgibbons]

+cometogether420 ha!! Took me a while... yeah... always haters out there! Doesn’t bug me much anymore... and for the record, glub glub was a piece of cheese!

[@cometogether420]

@@jefgibbons No! Glub Glub was real and had feelings, now he is a piece of sushi. A sad, sad sushi. Keep up the good work!

[@officialemzbeatz]

Nice.. Just a lot confused though Lol

[@trollenz]

Nice explanations, thanks... That's a lot of glup glup though 😂😂

[@benshirleymusic]

Hello again: I found the video mentioned in the comment below. Use Video Follows Edit Mode. Awesome! : kzbin.info/www/bejne/inusn2Vpmpt0m9U

[@proteus1]

Let's just hope people who don't want live goldfish, don't flush fish down the toilet...

[@MicrosoftsourceCode]

omg I am sure there is a quicker and less draining tutorial on this topic. You really do not need 16 minutes to explain how The Time Warp Tool works. You could have saved 30 seconds by not telling us your name. We can already see your name and there is always a Great big red signing with *SUBSCRIBE* on it.