In the old days, the picture would have to be "locked", meaning no more changes can be done to the picture and you could start writing the music. Now, because it's digital, a film is basically never locked, pushing the post-production to the very end with a release date coming. Sometimes you get new revisions when you've already written to the last revisions. They'll say, "We haven't changed much". But they've snipped things out and all of the timings get thrown out...There used to be a huge room in the back of the studios that stored the magnetic tapes where the music was recorded. Everything is recorded to Pro Tools now. And, as far as the music editor goes, streamers used to be directly scribed onto magnetic film, but now software does all the math for you.
