Video tutorials - let's make a list!
Hi friends,
We've long wanted to create a series of video tutorials for various tasks in Notation Musician and Notation Composer. I've done some videos hither and thither in answering questions along the way, but am now looking to create some more video tutorials. We would also like to have a dedicated page for them for quick and easy reference. I can't promise that we'll be able to do every one that gets requested, nor can I promise a time frame, but I'd like to make an honest effort at having more of these available. So, what topics would you find helpful now, or what would you have found helpful when you first started using Musician or Composer? Please remember that this is video tutorial topic list for the programs as they currently exist, not a feature request list (feature requests have another home here). Some topics that come to mind: Using the Rebar feature - recording a new file or using a "found" file recorded without a metronome, and then fixing the barlines to give usable sheet music.This list is just a start, based on an off-the-top-of-my-head recall of helpdesk requests. Please feel free to add other topics, or to make notes about those mentioned above. Thanks for your help here! Sherry |
Re: Video tutorials - let's make a list!
Hi Sherry,
Just reviewed the first tutorial - very well done and I think that's a perfect start for Notation users :) One suggestion I have for the 'wish list' is a tutorial on setting up the printed page .... page size, page breaks, page titles etc. Kind Regards .... Richard |
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Hi Richard,
Thanks for the kind words :) The "Page Layout for printing" is now on the wish list. As I mentioned, I'll try to get as many of these done as possible as quickly as I can. They're a bit "rough and ready", because I figure folks wouldn't mind less "polish" if they could at least get a good idea about how to do things quickly. ttfn, Sherry Quote:
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Re: Video tutorials - let's make a list!
Hi friends,
Here's the current status on tutorial videos. Please note that the order of topics is not necessarily the order they will get done in :) Done - Setting up your workspace - menus, (moveable) toolbars, palettes, playlistsIf you have suggestions, please feel free to make them :) ttfn, Sherry |
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Hi Sherry
I think the Video Tutorials are a great idea! especially for someone like myself with little Musical knowledge. I really would like to see a video on "How To Copy and Paste Different Instrument Parts in a Midi" I so often get really stuck when I try to do this, and even if I manage to get part way there, as soon as I then try to have the score display in "Easy Notes" I end up with the basic score! Have a Great Day! Kind regards Inspired |
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Hi Sherry,
After all these years of using MidiNotate and Notation, the most helpful thing for me would be an explanation/demonstration of getting melisma dashes to continue on the next page. I've never been able to make this work. Perhaps trouble shooting in Lyric Entry would be a good place for it. all best, mgj |
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Hi,
Thanks for the input here! These types of replies are what help me to know what folks want :) Quote:
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Short story (til I can get a tutorial shot): Melismas are treated as Lyric text, and thus are associated with a particular note. Therefore, melismas currently won't "break" automatically and then continue on to the next page nor even the next system on a page. You have to enter another "extension" manually to another note in the staff. You can do this by (1) in Text/Lyrics (add mode) clicking on the next note location (either the second half of a tied note or the next other-pitch note) to add a "lyric" and (2) hold the "Shift" key while pressing the space bar (to manually add a space in the lyric, to give something like " --" with a space in front) and then press the "-" key to add more melisma dashes. Adding that space in the beginning will bring the "stand alone" melisma into better vertical alignment with other melismas in the score that are attached to text (eg. "my--"). Also, a melisma currently will stick out (and over other objects) as far as it's dashes ("-") tell it to go. Therefore, you should be in Page View when adding any additional melismas, and you'll need to manually delete some of the dashes if the melisma is too long, or add more if it's too short. Hopefully the above can get you both going for now, though a picture (or video) is worth a thousand words (I didn't really want to type a thousand words just now, so I'll do the videos hopefully soon ;) ). Thanks for the input! Sherry |
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Hi, I'm very very new to this entire system. Just got the program yesterday and have browsed the tutorial section and downloaded a few. While watching one it was mentioned that it would have been better it I had seen a different one before watching that one. So I thought there might be a list showing a newby what would be the best order to watch the tutorials.
Thanks for your help. Kent |
Re: Video tutorials - let's make a list!
Hi Kent,
Actually there's not really an order to them (with a few exceptions) because different people want to do different things with the software. For a rough order, you can look at them in the order they've been done (eg. using the list on the "sticky" thread at http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=3609), but even then you may not need to look at all of them (eg. if you're only going to be entering your own notes, you don't necessarily need to review Transcription Options so much). ttfn, Sherry |
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Sherry, Thank you so much for the information. I really appreciate it. I would also like to thank you for making the tutorials. I've only seen a couple but they are wonderful. The qualilty and information you are showing is great. I burned a couple on a DVD and sat in the living room and watched them. All I remember saying was Yes, Yes, Yes everytime I saw you do something that I wanted to be able to do. That makes me very happy with my purchase and I haven't even used it yet, but I know I will be able to do more than I was hoping to do.
Thank you so very much. Kent |
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