Pro Tools: Mixing a Short Film

Explore a powerful round-trip workflow between Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools to quickly mix dialogue, sound effects, and music for film.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• The Pro Tools workflow
• Initial setup and views
• The power of the template
• Exporting audio and video from Avid Media Composer
• Importing to Pro Tools

2. Editing Dialogue and Location Sound

• First steps
• Dialogue editing: Part one
• Dialogue editing: Part two
• Fixing hum problems with processing
• Fixing broadband noise issues with processing

3. Working with Sound Effects and Music

• Synchronizing sound effects
• Working with Foley
• Creating sound effects from scratch
• Working with music tracks
• Building background ambience

4. Mixing to Picture

• Automating volume
• Using EQ to enhance your mix
• Automating plugins
• Printing final stems
• Marrying back to picture

Conclusion

• Next steps