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Preparing the session for foley and ADR recording - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Pro Tools: Audio for Film and Video
Preparing the session for foley and ADR recording
In this movie, we are going to build and work through our Pro Tools session that's optimized for recording or referencing video. ADR or Automated Dialogue Replacement is a process where production dialogue is replaced by the original actors in a controlled environment. Foley is the act of performing sound effects by a Foley artist to match specific movements on the screen. Both of these processes require similar Pro Tools workflows. So here we'll learn how to set up this specific type of session. As you can see, I have a pretty customized session here. I have got the video in the top track and then I've got four tracks below that. I've got my Beeps track, which is where we are going to put beep cues. This is a way to cue actors to know when to perform. Then I've got my Record track, which is where we are actually be recording to. Then we have our Edit/Process track and that's where we can pull recorded takes that we like and edit them, and finally we have our Hero track. That's where…
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