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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)

Using memory locations within a project

Memory locations are a great way to communicate ideas and instructions between team members. They are essentially markers that can be placed on the timeline. They can also be one method of putting notes for yourself or others. I also use markers extensively for motion picture and linear media to denote scene changes since so much sonic information changes between scenes. In this recipe, we’ll add some simple markers to our project in a few different ways and show how they can be used.

Getting ready

For this recipe, a blank Pro Tools session is all you need. Make sure that the Markers ruler is visible in the Edit window. You can do this by going to the menu bar and selecting View | Rulers and confirming Markers is checked.

How to do it…

We’ll now create some memory marker locations. Follow these steps:

  1. In the Edit window, move your mouse to anywhere on top of the Markers ruler.
  2. Hold Control (Start on...