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The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By : Emiliano Paternostro
Book Image

The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By: Emiliano Paternostro

Overview of this book

Pro Tools has long been an industry-standard Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for audio professionals, but it can often be overwhelming for new and experienced users alike. The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook acts as a reference guide to the software and breaks down each stage of a project into manageable phases. From planning a session, editing a sequence, performing a mix to printing the final masters, you can approach this book either sequentially or peruse the self-contained recipes. You’ll come to grips with workflows for music production, motion picture, and spoken word production, helping you gain expertise in the area of your choice. You'll learn aspects of music mixing like side chain processing to keep instruments from overshadowing each other and conforming for motion picture. The author’s expertise with Pro Tools will help you discover and incorporate different techniques into your workflows. You’ll also learn to build consistent and replicable workflows and templates by understanding what happens behind the scenes in Pro Tools. With this cookbook, you’ll be able to focus on the creative aspects of your audio production and not get mired by the technical hurdles. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to handle even the most complex features of Pro Tools to deliver immaculate results for your clients.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Planning the project on “paper” first

The biggest mistake I see from early users of Pro Tools or any DAW, in general, is diving right into a project without a solid plan. After becoming comfortable with the inner workings of a DAW, you may be able to jump right into a project with a basic idea of what’s going to be needed, but there are many advantages to determining the scope and requirements of a session before even opening your DAW. Let’s look at some examples of what works for different types of projects.

Scripts

If you are working on story-based content, then a script is a great place to start. This might seem like extra work for some non-fiction projects – why not simply bring in all the audio and start editing it in the DAW? The reality is that audio clips and waveforms without any pre-planned guidance are much more challenging to cultivate into a cohesive narrative from within Pro Tools and almost every other DAW. Some of the most powerful...