Year of release: 2012
Production website: Lynda.com
Duration: ~9 hours
Type of material distributed: Video lesson
Language: English
Subtitle language: English
- 2.6 GB
Description: Pro Tools 10 Essential Training with musician and producer David Franz highlights the process of recording, editing, mixing, and mastering in Avid Pro Tools, the industry-standard software for music and postproduction. The course covers recording live audio and adding effects on the fly, creating music with virtual instruments and plug-ins, editing for time and pitch manipulation, creating a musical score, and mixing and mastering a track. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
[] Exploring the Pro Tools interface
[] Selecting inputs, outputs, and buses
[] Understanding signal paths and gain stages
[] Setting up Pro Tools hardware and software properly
[] Importing audio from multiple sources
[] Recording and editing audio and MIDI
[] Adjusting time, tempo, meter, key, and chord in arrangements
[] Mixing and mastering a session
[] Setting up an effects loop
[] Importing and displaying video
[] Adding music, Foley, ADR, and FX
[] Archiving a session
Content
Introduction 13m 44s
Welcome 01m 20s
Exploring the different versions of Pro Tools 03m 22s
Optimizing your computer before installing Pro Tools 04m 18s
Troubleshooting 02m 19s
Using the exercise files 02m 25s
- Getting Started 36m 55s
Installing and authorizing Pro Tools 01m 49s
Connecting your Pro Tools system 04m 31s
Powering up and powering down 00m 58s
Choosing the Playback Engine and Hardware settings 05m 55s
Optimizing Pro Tools’ performance 06m 26s
Utilizing Automatic Delay Compensation (ADC) 03m 36s
Setting essential preferences 02m 35s
Creating a Pro Tools session 04m 31s
Identifying elements in a session folder 02m 36s
Creating new tracks 03m 58s -
Learning the Interface 42m 05s
Exploring the Edit window 06m 44s
Exploring the Mix window 03m 11s
Exploring the Transport and Big Counter windows 02m 57s
Using the Color palette and window arrangements 02m 35s
Investigating the menus 03m 22s
Understanding samples and ticks 03m 34s
Viewing and manipulating tracks 04m 31s
Selecting inputs, outputs, and buses 03m 58s
Selecting an I/O settings file 04m 12s
Understanding signal paths and gain stages 03m 46s
Utilizing keyboard shortcuts and Keyboard Focus 03m 15s -
Importing 21m 11s
Using DigiBase and the Workspace browser 04m 14s
Importing audio 03m 00s
Importing MIDI 02m 48s
Importing session data 05m 34s
Importing tracks from a CD 02m 51s
Importing video 02m 44s
4.Recording Audio 56m 46s
Recording audio 06m 13s
Playing back audio and Edit window scrolling 04m 52s
Creating a click track 05m 24s
Overdubbing and using the record modes 08m 52s
Recording with playlists and Loop Record 04m 06s
Punch recording and using the monitoring modes 04m 14s
Dealing with latency and ADC 04m 58s
Creating a group 06m 05s
Adding effects while recording 05m 16s
Creating a headphone (cue) mix 04m 29s
Assigning disk allocation 02m 17s
- Editing Audio 01h 28m
Understanding nondestructive editing and region types 03m 19s
Using the Selector and Grabber tools 03m 37s
Using the Trim and Scrubber tools 07m 05s
Using the Zoomer tool and zoom presets 05m 51s
Using the Pencil tool 03m 10s
Using the Smart tool 01m 27s
Understanding the Edit modes 05m 51s
Arranging clips 06m 40s
Undoing an edit 02m 44s
Utilizing fades and crossfades 09m 41s
Building a comp track using playlists 05m 17s
Locking and muting clips 02m 48s
Special Edit window buttons 07m 15s
Creating an audio loop 05m 19s
Editing a voiceover 09m 41s
Using Elastic Time and Elastic Pitch 09m 12s -
Arranging a Session 17m 21s
Working with clip groups 04m 33s
Using time, tempo, meter, key, and chord 05m 37s
Creating memory locations 07m 11s -
Recording MIDI Data 33m 10s
Setting up MIDI on a Mac 04m 17s
Setting up MIDI on a PC 02m 14s
Setting up MIDI in Pro Tools 02m 44s
Recording MIDI data 03m 14s
Recording multiple MIDI tracks with one virtual instrument 02m 17s
Recording options for MIDI 06m 21s
Using Step Input 04m 35s
Making a drum loop with MIDI Merge 03m 36s
Composing with virtual instruments 03m 52s -
Editing MIDI 57m 01s
Using the edit tools for editing MIDI data 10m 00s
Editing MIDI data in the MIDI Editor 07m 31s
Working with the MIDI Event List 02m 12s
Editing MIDI data with Event Operations 08m 33s
Quantizing MIDI tracks 12m 16s
Creating and using Groove Templates 05m 35s
Utilizing real-time properties 05m 50s
Using MIDI Learn 05m 04s -
Scoring 17m 30s
Exploring the Score Editor 05m 49s
Using the Score Editor 05m 05s
Setting up a score 04m 48s
Printing and exporting a score 01m 48s -
Automation 25m 49s
Writing
and editing automation 06m 40s
Drawing automation with the Pencil tool 04m 12s
Editing automation with the Trim and Grabber tools 02m 58s
Cutting, copying, pasting, and clearing automation 04m 12s
Turning automation on and off 03m 52s
Automating plug-ins and virtual instruments 03m 55s -
Mixing and Mastering 01h 49m
Setting up a session for mixing 08m 50s
Setting up an effects loop 09m 30s
Working with plug-ins 04m 33s
Utilizing ADC while mixing 09m 08s
Applying EQ 12m 43s
Adding compression and limiting 14m 37s
Using delay effects 06m 52s
Applying AudioSuite plug-ins 06m 24s
Adding reverb to your mix 06m 50s
Bouncing down a mix 04m 15s
Making an MP3 for iTunes and SoundCloud 02m 53s
Setting up a session for mastering 04m 58s
Mastering a session 10m 37s
Bouncing down master recordings with Dither and Noise Shaping 07m 24s -
Working with Video 09m 59s
Importing and displaying video files 02m 38s
Adding music, foley, ADR, and FX 04m 29s
Bouncing down video and audio together 02m 52s -
Archiving 04m 00s
Archiving an entire session 04m 00s
Conclusion 00m 58s
Further recommendations 00m 58s
Example files: present
Video format: MOV
Video: AVC 960×600 15fps ~450Kbps
Audio: AAC 48kHz 2ch 128Kbps
