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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Post production sound is an inherently collaborative process. Sound editors always need to send their tracks to be mixed, but usually don’t send all the tracks from their session. They only want to deliver exactly what the mixer needs. Traditionally this meant saving your session as something else, deleting all the tracks except the ones …
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The Pro Tools Ideascale page is a fantastic place to get a sense for what the Pro Tools community really wants to see incorporated into the software. One of the longest-standing and most desired feature requests that was satisfied in Pro Tools 10 was Audiosuite handles. What are audiosuite handles, and why are they such …
As people try to move away from tape-based workflows, it’s becoming more common to simply deliver mix stems on a hard drive instead of doing a layback to tape. Clients want to take the final stems and match them back to picture in the Avid, and then make various file-based outputs from there. The best …
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Certain plugins tend to be instantiated many times throughout a mix session. Often you’ll have an EQ on every dialog track. You’ll also frequently have multiple compressors, reverbs, limiters, and other plugins that repeat throughout your template. Sometimes it’s nice to be able to change settings on a single plugin and have other instances of …
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Avid’s latest iteration of Pro Tools, version 11, brings some fantastic new features to the world of post production sound. Some of the best additions include offline bounce, full native 64-bit support, new metering ballistics, gain reduction metering for all tracks, and native support for Avid video codecs like DNxHD. Let’s look closer at a …
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