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Mac Power Users

551: Writing Music for the Picture Business, with David Metzger

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

David and Stephen are joined by orchestrator and composer David Metzger, whose resume includes *Frozen,* *Muppets Most Wanted,* *The Avengers,* *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2* and more. He shares his setup, which includes multiple Macs networked together, numerous music applications and (eventually) a full-blown orchestra.

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0:00.0

Mac Power Users episode 551, writing music for the picture business with David Metzker. Hello everyone this is David Sparks joined by my pal Mr Stephen Hackett.

0:18.4

How are you Stephen? I am good it's it's another week and another MPU.

0:23.0

Yeah, I'm really excited about this one.

0:26.0

We have a special guest.

0:27.0

I can't wait to introduce him in just a minute.

0:29.0

But before we do, how are things going with the St Jude fundraiser?

0:34.8

Yeah, it's going well.

0:35.7

So we are now a couple weeks into it right on the verge of September,

0:39.5

which I think is when we're really kick it into overdrive. If you haven't heard about this, if you're not familiar with St Jude,

0:45.8

it's a Children's Research Hospital that actually in my hometown of Memphis,

0:49.9

it's like 20 minutes from my house.

0:51.7

And in September relay honors childhood cancer

0:54.8

awareness month by raising money for St. Jude and you may think well it's like a

0:59.0

random charity in Memphis well it's it's. It's a hospital that treats children and really takes care of

1:06.2

their whole family without regard to their ability to pay, where they're from, what they

1:09.8

believe, anything like that. And they saved the life of my oldest son who had a brain

1:15.0

tumor and he was a baby and now he is in fifth grade and that's because of the work

1:18.3

at St Jude. So we would love your support you can go to St Jude

1:21.9

Jude.org slash relay and and you can follow the network on

1:26.3

Twitter we're gonna be announcing live streams and different events

1:29.5

throughout the month of September.

1:31.7

Yeah lots of events going on.

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