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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)

Post Production for Motion Pictures

Sound for motion pictures might be one of the most scrutinized mediums in the realm of audio. When less-than-ideal audio is present in a music composition, it can sometimes be attributed to the artist’s intentions or style (such as the intentional warble, noise, and crackle in Lo-Fi). In podcasts, the journalistic tradition of radio forgives recording quality as it may not be done in an ideal space or situation. With motion pictures, however, bad sound is almost unforgivable. Audiences will accept out-of-focus images, shaky cameras, or overexposed bright spots, but present them with a soundtrack that is out of sync, distorted, or lacking in the edit, and their immersion will be broken. Motion picture audio also falls under heavy scrutiny in the broadcast world with specific quality assurance targets that will cause a project to be rejected if they are not respected.

While the challenges present with motion picture audio may seem daunting...