Q: I'd love to be able to take video clips and give them a musical score where everything is in sync with the dialogue/action of what's going on the video (like if someone's walking downstairs I could have percussion hits that match the footsteps exactly, etc) are there any tricks to this?
A: one good trick is to press record (with your clip synced up) and watch it and just sort of play it, after. with the right timing. so just as soon as you see the action, look away from the screen and imagine what you just saw in your head and play it synced to that, so it will be timed right, but just a bit delayed. then just go in and move it. if it's not quite right, just do it again. or if it's midi then just nudge notes to fit. fuck it, nowadays you can nudge audio notes too anyways