High quality free Pro Tools video tutorials can be difficult to find, but at Pro Tools Expert we have been making them for over 7 years and sharing them with Pro Tools users around the world. Our trainers are working Pro Tools professionals and in some cases Avid Certified Instructors, with years of practical experience using Pro Tools whilst working in music production or post production.
In this article, we feature an excellent long-form video from mixing and mastering engineer Justin Gray, in which he explores mastering music in Dolby Atmos. If you want detail in an easily digestible format this is for you.
No matter what genre you're mixing, you've probably encountered an unruly low end that can mess up the whole mix. In this free video tutorial, Geoff Manchester walks you through some techniques to help you manage low end in a mix.
In this article, Damian Kearns takes you through the seemingly rudimentary process of sending to and printing back to Pro Tools from RX using the RX Connect plugin in the AudioSuite menu.
In this extended free Expert Tutorial, David Ziegler, Senior Content Engineer, Dolby Germany and Eric Horstmann from Immersive Lab show how to mix music in Dolby Atmos. David starts with an overview and then together they explore Eric’s template and workflow using a track that Eric recently remixed in Dolby Atmos for a client.
Luke Goddard details a way of capturing multitrack audio on a Mac without any additional software. Quicktime for Mac has a trick up its sleeve to help those making screen recordings for the web.
Sometimes it’s useful to limit your choices and to dig a little deeper into a restricted set of tools. In this case, Julian mixes a track using just Sonnox plugins, although the eagle-eyed among you will spot a single Pro Expander, a LoFi and an Xpand! 2 the principle still stands.
In this free Pro Tools video tutorial, we explain what has changed about the behaviour of Record Enable buttons with the Pro Tools 2020.9 release.
In Pro Tools 2020.9, Avid announced changes to the preferences to address an issue which has irritated some users. The way Audio tracks Record Enables behave differently to MIDI tracks.
In the sixth and last free Pro Tools video tutorial of this series on Pro Tools Folder Tracks, brought to you with the support of Avid. Julian Rodgers looks at the newly implemented support for Folder tracks in Eucon and how you can use the Avid Control App on a tablet to access and control Folder Tracks.
In this extended free Pro Tools video tutorial, Pro Tools tutor, Paul Maunder covers the process of creating two templates for audio post-production, one for a TV Documentary and the second for a 5.1 Feature Film.
A free Pro Tools video tutorial continuing this series on Folder Tracks, brought to you with the support of Avid, Julian Rodgers demonstrates the key difference between how muting Basic and Routing Folders affect the tracks contained in the Folder Track.
Continuing this series of free Pro Tools video tutorials on Folder Tracks, brought to you with the support of Avid, Julian Rodgers looks at some of the ways you can manage the potential confusion that can happen when you start putting folder tracks inside other folder tracks, otherwise known as nesting.
In the first of this series of free Pro Tools videos tutorials, brought to you with the support of Avid, Julian Rodgers looked at Basic Folder Tracks, how to create them and why you might use them. In the second video, Julian expanded on this with some example uses for Basic Folder Tracks. Now in the third in the series, Julian looks at Routing Folders, which combine the organisational benefits of Basic Folders with submixing like an Aux track.
In the first of this series of tutorial videos, brought to you with the support of Avid, Julian Rodgers looked at Basic Folder Tracks, how to create them and why you might use them. In this free Pro Tools video tutorial, the second in the series, Julian looks at some examples of how you can use Basic Folder Tracks like making duplicate Folder Tracks to try alternative mix ideas and using the Folder overview to edit groups of tracks.
Check out this tip in this free Pro Tools video tutorial.
In the Options menu, there is a setting to change your track meters from pre-fader to post-fader. Have you ever changed it? Do you know what it does or why you might want to change it?
Check out this tip in this free Pro Tools video tutorial. It’s obvious once you know but a common mistake made by users of other DAWs when getting to know Pro Tools is to look for a dedicated sample editor as found in many other DAWs.
Check out this tip in this free Pro Tools video tutorial. In this free tip, Pro Tools Expert Team member Julian Rodgers demonstrates a useful way to set selections by auditioning the audio using the Scrub Tool.
Fast Forwarding and Rewinding isn’t as important as it used to be in the days of linear media (that’s tape to most of us) as in a DAW we can just click and play from anywhere on the timeline. That’s fine as long as we know where we need to be in our sessions but playing through tracks faster or slower than real-time while hearing the audio can be useful for all sorts of reasons. Shuttle lock is a really useful feature which allows you to do just this.
In a recent tutorial, we looked at gain staging in DAWs, a subject that lots of people are talking about and on which opinions vary significantly. One area in which managing gain properly definitely makes a significant difference is proper matching of gain into and out of plug-ins. Not because of the effect it has on the sound but because of the effect it has on the listener.
Strip silence can semi-automate the process of removing spill from tom mics. In this free tip, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers shows how using as high a Strip Silence Threshold as possible with the clip end pad control and batch fades, the cure doesn’t have to be worse than the disease as is so often the case when gating toms.
Harmonic Tremolo mode is a simple effect and I thought I would be able to create something similar using stock Pro Tools plugins. It turned out to need some lateral thinking! See what the problem was and how I solved it in this free tutorial.
The difference between multichannel and multi-mono plug-ins in Pro Tools isn’t very significant if you only work in stereo. However, as soon as you start working with more than 2 channels, you find the number of plug-ins available as multichannel plug-ins starts to tail off rapidly. This free tip demonstrates a way to quickly access all the channels in a multi-mono plug-in at the same time, which is especially useful if you have unlinked the parameters.
Did you know you can drag a file or clip onto the tracks sidebar and a new track will be created in the same way as dragging onto the timeline? Why is this useful? Because in a busy session there usually isn’t any blank space visible in the edit window. I use this all the time.
We’ve all had the dreaded missing files dialog pop up when moving or restoring a Pro Tools session. You can avoid this by using Save Copy and ticking the All Audio Files checkbox but that extra time might be unnecessary as your session could be fine. How can you check?
The new Monitoring page in the Pro Tools Control app offers the functionality of a fully featured Monitor controller to those who have suitable Eucon compatible hardware like the Avid MTRX. Did you know that you can use this feature without additional software with limited facilities like Level control, Cut and Dim?
In this free video tutorial, Paul Maunder lifts the lid off a much misunderstood part of Pro Tools - the Disk Allocation window.
The Focusrite Compounder was an inexpensive two channel compressor/limiter from their popular Platinum range. A VCA compressor with a separate optical limiter this was quite an unusual piece but it gained notoriety in some quarters courtesy of its Bass Expand feature and the temptingly titled “Huge” button. Julian experiments with recreating the effect in Pro Tools.
We all come across Transfer Curves, they are the graphs dynamics processors use to show what particular settings will do to sounds at different levels. Avid Channel Strip and Pro Compressor use a different layout. Do you understand it? if Not here’s a free tip video to explain the difference.
MIDI controllers can sometimes stubbornly refuse to talk to our DAWs. If the controller isn’t playing nice with Pro Tools the first thing I usually try is to see whether the MIDI controller works with another DAW. If it works in another DAW but not with Pro Tools then there are a few things you can try to track down what is wrong.
You can use the Avid Pitch II plug-in which comes included in Pro Tools to widen stereo tracks. See how easy it is in this free Expert tip.
In this article we explore four different ways you can use to process the dynamics of your lead vocals. Each of these approaches can be used individually on a lead vocal track, you could also blend several of these together to produce great sounding vocals in your next mix.
Did you know it’s possible to set the session tempo on a Pro Tools session from a MIDI keyboard?
Did you know there is a quick way to set up multi-select menus in Pro Tools from the keyboard? Find out how with this free tip.
When working in grid mode with material recorded to a click, dropping new clips into your session in time is easy. When editing material which doesn’t have a meaningful grid to quantize to things aren’t as easy but they are still very simple. A really easy way to drop clips to the right place is to position your cursor and then use these shortcuts to place them at the cursor.
In this four part free video tutorial series, brought to you with the support of Waves, we show you four plug-ins that can quickly transform your vocal tracks into radio ready mixes. In this article we will be taking the same vocal performance and working on it four different ways to help you hear the differences in sound and style between the four plug-ins.
In a new format we are producing videos offering tips and solutions to common problems in under a minute. In this free video tutorial we show you how easy it is to put a clip back in the right place if you accidentally move it using Spot To Original Timestamp
Convolution Reverb is best known as a way to capture the sound of a specific space, something its really well suited to. However as impulse responses are just wav files, it is possible to use any way file as an IR. The results can be unpredictable and sometimes plain bizzare but in this free tip video Julian Rodgers demonstrates how easy it is to use a cymbal from a drum VI, though it could be any sound you like, to create a unique reverb effect.
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In this premium video tutorial, Julian Rodgers looks at the various ways to bring collections of tracks together for extra control and convenience. What is the difference between using submixes or VCAs and how do Folder Tracks fit in?
In this premium video tutorial series of 4 tutorials, Paul Maunder covers the various automation features available in Pro Tools Ultimate software covering Read, Write, Touch, Latch, Touch/Latch, Latch Prime In Stop, Manual Write, Write On Stop, Suspend, Preview, Punch Preview, Automation Capture, Punch and AutoJoin commands.
In this premium video tutorial, Julian Rodgers looks at the Pro Tools Workspace Browser and how to get the best from it.
In this premium video tutorial, Julian Rodgers looks at Dynamic Transport, an often overlooked feature of Pro Tools which has been around forever but received an update to its behaviour in Pro Tools 2021.3. So what is it and how is it used?
In this extended premium video tutorial, Julian Rodgers uses editing a drum loop to highlight several techniques and shortcuts which can really help editing in Pro Tools, furthermore these can be used for more than loops.
In this premium video tutorial, Julian Rodgers shows 6 ways you can speed up the instantiation of AAX and AudioSuite plugins in your Pro Tools sessions. While this video is for all Pro Tools users, it uses a Pro Tools Carbon and highlights some of the unique ways the Carbon’s Hybrid mixer treats plugins.
In this premium video tutorial, Julian Rodgers shows how it is possible to clean up and take total control of snare reverb. While most of us have dropped an insert onto the top snare track before, this only puts a reverb onto the top snare mic, and top snare mics, taken out of context, usually have issues.
Pro Tools 2020.11 brought new features to the Bounce Mix window, formerly known as Bounce to disk. The differences are subtle but significant. In this premium tutorial Julian Rodgers looks at the differences between the old bounce to disk window and the new bounce Mix window and how these will affect Music users working in stereo.
In this premium video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers explains how it is possible to bring up the level of the snare in your overheads without bringing up the level of everything else.
In this premium video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers looks at some ways you can place clips precisely and quickly without using Spot or Grid mode and without any time-consuming zooming in and dragging or nudging clips to the right location.
In this premium video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers explores the IO settings window. Created with music users in mind who only visit the IO settings window when something is wrong and leave as quickly as possible. if this sounds like you, you might have not explored some features, which might make your life easier and save you some time.
In this premium video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers explains some different ways to identify the loudest sample in a clip, not just how high the highest peak in a clip is but where it is.
In this premium video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers takes a thorough tour of all the ways the scroll wheel can be used in Pro Tools. Scrolling and zooming, MIDI, clip gain and more. With some bonus, related keyboard shortcuts for good measure!
In this premium video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers sets up a Pro Tools session ready for time correction using Beat Detective in a session which wasn’t recorded using a click track.
Setting up Grid Mode in Pro Tools and using the related Nudge feature can really speed up your work. In this Premium Tutorial, Julian Rodgers explains how to take control of these settings from the keyboard and looks at some of the less well-known features of these settings.
In this premium video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers explains the key differences between using clip gain of volume automation to manage the level of audio.
Do you understand what the different preference settings do in the display tab of preferences? Did you know you can colour markers as well as tracks and clips? Have you ever used colour in the clips list? See these and more in this new tutorial video.
Mid Side processing can achieve things that can’t be done in other ways, it’s a well-known stereo microphone technique but a stereo signal can be treated as a Mid and a Side channel just as readily as it can be a Left and a Right signal. In this Premium Tutorial, Julian looks at how you can access the mid and side components of a stereo signal without having to use any third-party plugins.