The music editor is a type of sound editor in film or other

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productions (e.g. video or games) responsible for compiling, editing, and syncing music during the production of a

soundtrack A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack ...

. Among the music editor's roles is creating a "temp track", which is a "mock-up" of the film's soundtrack using pre-existing elements to use for editing, audience previews, and other purposes while the film's commissioned score is being composed. One of the few courses dedicated solely t
Temp Music
was offered a
Chapman University's Dodge College

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