iZotope RX 4 has released, bringing even more fantastic new noise reduction and audio repair tools targeted at post production audio professionals. Sadly, all the new enticing features only exist in the stand-alone application, not as plugins within Pro Tools. However, iZotope has developed a clever way to “round trip” your audio from Pro Tools …
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Pro Tools supports a variety of surround sound formats, but of course the most common is still 5.1 surround. This breaks down into the standard channels of Left, Center, Right, Left Surround, Right Surround, and LFE. There are several different standards for how we can order those 6 channels. Let’s take a quick look at …
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There’s nothing worse than having your show fail quality control due to a tiny tick in the dialog. What a silly thing to reject an entire episode for! But sadly, it happens. And once the QC operator finds one tick, suddenly they are hearing ticks and clicks everywhere in your mix! Fortunately we now have …
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These days the CALM Act mandates that TV programs and commercials all adhere to a standard specification for average integrated program loudness. That spec is -24 dB LUFS, where LUFS stands for Loudness Units Full Scale. It can also be referred to as LKFS. If you’d like to dive deep into the details of this, …
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Like a giddy kid on Christmas morning, I couldn’t wait to unwrap offline bounce in Pro Tools 11. The new 64-bit architecture is nice, the smaller installation footprint is great, the expanded meters with a variety of ballistics options are superb, but no new Pro Tools 11 feature is more important for post sound than …
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