From the course: Pro Tools: Mixing a Short Film
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Printing final stems
Once you have your mix finalized, it's time to do what we call the Print Master or the Re-recording session. This is where you make flattened versions of all your stems, both as a stereo mixdown of all of the stems, and as individual stems. The stem print masters can be useful later if you need to make a change or make a foreign language version, and you don't want to go back into the original Pro Tools Mix. In this movie, we'll work through the steps to make these final print masters. To make things easier, let's pull all of auxiliary tracks up to the top of the session. Next, we need to make four stereo audio tracks to record our mix to. Let's type Shift+Command+N, and we'll make four new stereo tracks. We'll name these tracks Stereo Mix Print, then you can either use the key command, Command+Right Arrow or click the Next button to move to the next track. Name the next track DIA Print for dialogue print, FX Print, and MUS for Music Print. I also like to color code these print tracks…
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