May 2009

Three things you might not know about Pro Tools

by Major on May 27th, 2009 in Features, Keyboard Shortcuts

A few handy features of Pro Tools that may not be in your normal work-flow.

1. If you Control+Click on the name of a multi-channel track there is an option to split out the track into several mono track. Very handy!

2. In the preferences window, under the ‘display’ tab there is an option to color code regions by marker. With this preference checked, the regions change color after every marker location.  A great way to visually see scene changes, or sections of a song, even with markers hidden!

3. When using elastic audio you can shift+click on a warp marker when dragging, to lock the markers on either side of it.  Saves you three click, thus tripling your productivity!

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Audio Pull up/down

by Major on May 18th, 2009 in Post Production

This post is extremely post production related.  So I apologize in advance if you are not in audio post.  I would suggest however if you are a student, learn as much about video as you can now, because chances are you’ll end up in post anyway!

I. Frame Rates

The are several frame rates that you will come across in the post production world.

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Help!!!

by Evan on May 11th, 2009 in Troubleshooting

Pro Tools crashing? Acting Funny? A good place to start is deleting all the digidesign databases / preference files etc.

But there are soooooooooo many, and I don’t know where they all are!!!

Never fear! JCDeshaies’ Pro Tools Preference and Database helper to the rescue.

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The Alternative to CoreAudio and Re-Wire!

by Major on May 4th, 2009 in Studio Infrastructure

Don’t you wish you could just hear your system audio through your Pro Tools rig without the useless CoreAudio? Do you want to use Soundminer, but re-wire just doesn’t ever work?  Client wants to watch a quicktime?  You want to rock out to the latest Miley Cyrus single on iTunes?  Here’s the fix!

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