🌟 DC's STARGIRL COMPETITION FAQ 💬

In my opinion, if you want to try to improve your score then just go for it! Store a backup of the score you have now and if the new score somehow ends up worse, then you can just leave your original submission as is.

As far as my score goes, I'm pretty happy with it and am more than ready to let it be and move on. It's important to reach that place at some point so you don't get stuck running in circles.

In conclusion: trust your gut!

To SpitfireAudio Moderator:

Direct support (via email response) at Spitfire has stated: "Yes, it's fine to change the volume slightly if you need to, other alterations to the original sound are not permitted." but at this forum, it appears you're answering that we should not adjust the level of the audio at all.

Can you please clarify?

Especially, since the default dialogue and sound effects audio level seems quite high in Logic.

Thank you.

-Steven

Hello guys,

I hope you're doing great, we're partecipating to this contest from Italy, once we've uploaded our score on Youtube we've received a restriction for a violation of rights by WBTV. Do you know if it is normal? We challenged it saying that we didn't violate anything but we are just partecipating to an official contest. Any suggestion from your side?

Thank you in advance,

Have a great day

Thanks for clarifying!

Just replaced the video with the version that has a constant -1.5dB level of the original audio.

I've left mine for a while with the intention of coming back to it and spend a couple of days tidying up. A couple of areas I wasn't happy with but wasn't sure where to take them. A little time and distance and hopefully I'll be able to make some improvements - and get the overall balance sounding better. Not thinking I'm going to win anything, but want to be happy with my entry.

Thanks in advance!

1-I've composed and mixed my piece and I'm ready to master. I have some mastering templates that I use regularly. However, I've imported the video as a track into Reaper and the audio soundtrack is therefore also being 'mastered' as well as my music. I don't want this to be the case as obviously some of the sound FX are popping out to loud.

2- Possibly connected to this, I'm not quite sure how to render/ export the audio and video together, again bearing in mind that i don't really want my music mastering tools to be used on the video audio track.

I'm sure this is probably pretty straightforward but I just can't quite get my head around it.

Thanks again.

I have just resubmitted mine. The change was rather small, but in the first version I used a small portion of the original video audio(the sound when Icicle is blowing his ice-breath) as a source sound for some of my sound design(heavily manipulated). Anyhow, I found that this might possibly be against the rules, so in the new version I removed that completely and instead recorded myself making a blowing sound similar as in the original and completely redid my sound design on that part(and it turned out better and more intricate, in my opinion).

And since I was doing a new version, I used the opportunity to improve on a few other things as well... on the first version the nylon string guitar was half programmed and half live recording, on the new version I replaced the programmed guitar so it's entirely a live/organic guitar, I added a bit more punch to the sound fx stuff in the end when the Stargirl logo showed up, and worked a bit with the mix and I turned up the original dialogue and fx audio a bit.

Normally when I am finished with a track I am finished. But I normally don't participate in competitions. So I wouldn't be surprised if I end up delivering a third version.

Hitesh Ceon

Hello!! I was wondering if we are allowed to share our submissions on social media?

Hello, I uploaded my star girl score and feel like the overall mix can be louder. I was just curious how to do that? The sheet I filled out was emailed back to me and said I could make edits at any time. The YouTube link where your video will go, do I just delete the old video and upload a new video to YouTube and paste the link on the edit sheet?

thank you

Does anyone know how Spitfire and DC are going to handle the copyright for our submissions? Is DC going to claim each score as their own or will our music remain ours?

I’ve just uploaded my entry, but noticed that all other entires I can see have “Suggested by WBTV” at the bottom of their descriptions. Is this a requirement for submission? Have I missed something?

thanks!

Andy

That's due to the original video/sound material from the Stargirl show, not your music.

Yeah, but do Spitfire or DC claim ownership of the music, seeing as how it's music written for their IP?