Opening a New Session in Pro Tools

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Okay, let's launch Pro Tools for the first time. We're going to find the Pro Tools icon in the dock and click on it, and Pro Tools will go ahead, it's going to launch. A couple things we have to keep in mind when we're working in Pro Tools is what we're going to be doing with it. If we're working on music, or are we working in post-production audio. The standards for both are a little different. Music tends to work in 44.1, or 88.2 sampling rate, professional video works in 48 kilohertz. So, now once our program is launched, we want to make a new session. So we'll go over to "File", go to "New Session", and this is where we get to choose our sampling rate right here. So 48 kilohertz is what we want to work in, 44.1is our other choice here. And then we have a couple different choices for file types, we have broadcast wave, AIF, SD2, we're going to stay in broadcast wave, that's the most popular. With LE we have a choice of "last used" or "stereo mix". They are essentially the same. We want to stay in 16 bit, because that's our project settings from our audio projects from our final cut we're going to be working with. Let's name our session, this is going to be our "Soda Movie", and it's going to be our edit and mix. And at that point, this is going to be the name of my session, and it's going to ask me where I want to put the session. Now, you'll be able to see on the side here, all the different hard drives that are connected to my Macintosh hard drive. I have an external fire wire drive, which is highly recommended for cutting sound. Let's go ahead and pick a place on our Mac hard drive. I'm going to actually through it into a folder called "DigiDesign Databases", right here, and, there's already a session there named that, but we're going to go ahead and click "Save". Our brand new session will come up with our title and it has no track, that?s the first step in getting your session going. Okay, let's import our video that we just exported from our final cut project. We're going to "File", "Import", "Video", and we're going to locate that file real quickly. Here it is, our Soda Movie, and we're going to open it up. I want to make a new track and I want to import the audio from the file. Right now it's going to import the audio from the QuickTime movie, make it a separate file, so I can work with it if I want. So it's asking me where I want to put it. I'm going to put it in my audio files folder, by default, that's the audio file folder that's in my session. And now I have my QuickTime movie as a track, and my audio as a track, and I can see right there, at 2997 is my video rate, and here is my QuickTime movie, right there. I can quickly resize that if I want, make it a little smaller so I can work with it more if I want to, or I can drag it over to another monitor. But now I'm ready to start adding tracks, and also bring in the original audio.

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