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Summary: Free Pro Tools Tutorial! Learn how to use ilock & digi translator with expert tips and advice on sound editing in this free video.
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About the Expert
Alexander Markowski Alexander Markowski has been using Pro Tools since 1991 which has become a large portion of his professional experience in sound engineering for television an... read more
Let's talk about some of the things you'll need in order to do sound editing in Pro Tools. First, you'll need a good computer to put everything on; I prefer a Macintosh platform, though Pro Tools works perfectly well on pc based. Today we have a mac power pro book. You need to have the program, at least the LE version, which is the less expensive version of digi-design. When you buy the Pro Tools software you get the hardware that comes with it. You have a couple choices. This is the M-box 2; it's one of the most versatile of all the options. It gives you the ability to record, listen, sound edit with Pro Tools. In addition to that, if you're going to be working with audio from Avid of Final Cut you need a way to get the audio into your Pro Tools session. The native program doesn't have everything you need to quite get going. At a minimum, what you need to have is something called a digii-translator. The digi-translator actually gets authorized by an I- Lock. The I-Lock is something you need to authorize that. In the best case scenario, if you invest a little more money, you can have time code enabled in your session, as well. In that case, you'll need DV Toolkit 2. This is actually something that authorizes everything I need. I've disconnected at this point, so I'm going through on the screen, and it's showing you all the things that come along with it; It's vocal align. There's the digi-translator, that's the minimum program that you'll need in order to translate everything. At a minimum, that's what you'll need to get going in addition to the software.