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Understanding sound effects, ambiences, and backgrounds - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Pro Tools: Audio for Film and Video
Understanding sound effects, ambiences, and backgrounds
It's time to begin working with sound effects. This is where you get to really establish the sonic world of your video. In this movie, we will go over the five different types of effects, and then we will look at databases for managing sound effects libraries, and we'll begin to lay in some ambience and background tracks of our own. First, let's just make sure we understand the different sound effects and what they do. There are five main categories of sound effects. First we have hard effects. These are single sounds placed exactly on action. Here is an example of a hard effect, or where a hard effect is needed. I am going to mute the track and we'll see where it's needed first. (clip playing) Did you see when that bike was laid down? I will play it one more time. (clip playing) That's a good opportunity for a sound effect. As you can see, we've laid one in. Let me solo the track, and we will hear what that sound effect sounds like by itself. (clunking sound) Then I will unsolo 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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