From the course: Pro Tools: Audio for Film and Video
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Bringing emotion to the mix with music tracks - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Pro Tools: Audio for Film and Video
Bringing emotion to the mix with music tracks
Music tracks are a key component to any audio for video project and part of our three main mixing stems. A lot of the time, music will come in as temp music from popular CDs from the picture edit. While this provides a soundtrack to edit to, it's not always possible to get the rights. Therefore it's called temp music. It does, however, put us sound people in a bind, because we're left with trying to fit music we do have the rights to in the edit originally intended for the temp music. Here's an example. After removing the temp score, we secured the rights to this drumbeat for the motorcycle race. Let me solo the track and let's take a listen. (drums playing) As you can see, the intro part doesn't quite match up with the beginning of the race, and let's even check the end to make sure it works. (drums playing) So this music might sound right in context, but its timing doesn't quite match up. So our job here as a music editor in this case is to make this music work in time with the…
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Organizing the dialog tracks5m
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Optimizing the dialog in the first pass4m 30s
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Using room tone4m 10s
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Creating fades to smooth out audio edits5m 4s
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Understanding sound effects, ambiences, and backgrounds7m 12s
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Sweetening and hard effects6m 52s
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Processing tips for sound effects8m 46s
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Bringing emotion to the mix with music tracks5m 33s
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Leveraging clip-based gain in Pro Tools 102m 51s
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Exploring AudioSuite enhancements in Pro Tools 102m 57s
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