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The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By : Emiliano Paternostro
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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)

Importing and Organizing Audio

Before you can start working with audio, you will need to import the media you want to work with into your Pro Tools session. Pro Tools offers several ways to bring in audio, and then organize them for better collaboration with others. In this chapter, you’ll learn about those methods, but also their impact on the project files and sessions. We’ll also discover how to import data from other file formats and sessions, and we’ll look at other tools that can assist with file management and organization.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Importing audio into a session with the Import Audio window
  • Dragging audio directly into a session
  • Importing audio from an AAF/OMF or another session
  • Relinking broken audio
  • Using the Clip List area for audio management
  • Collaborating with others using session data