Chapter 7. Processing Audio Using Audiosuite Plug-Ins

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During editing, it might be necessary to process audio files and make changes for editorial reasons. These changes to the audio files could include time compression or expansion, reversing, pitch changing for certain effects, and envelope alignment for matching dialog takes. These changes should be permanent and cannot run in real time like plug-ins used during mixing.

Pro Tools allows offline processing of audio outside of the mixing abilities of TDM and RTAS plug-in environments. The Audiosuite versions of plug-ins are used to perform this offline processing; they can be accessed from the Audiosuite menu. In most cases, every plug-in you have available in either TDM or RTAS will have an Audiosuite equivalent. Certain plug-ins, like reverse, time compression/expansion, and tone generator are only available as Audiosuite plug-ins due to the nature of how they operate .

The processing of Audiosuite plug-ins is not heard . Processed files are written directly to disk. Portions of the processed file may be previewed in order to make parameter adjustments. Once the parameters have been set, the file will be processed and saved under a new name that reflects the plug-in used during processing. For instance, if a file called Region A_01 is processed with the Reverse plug-in, the resulting file will be named Region A-RVRS_00. Similar abbreviations are made for other plug-ins. This way, you will be able to identify the type of processing that has been applied to a certain region.

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