Introduction

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Introduction

Welcome to the exciting world of creating sound for film, video, and multimedia. Pro Tools is the professional standard for creating dynamic and provocative soundtracks for movies, television, and a variety of Internet media, including Flash movies.

This book will help you master the features in Pro Tools that allow you to take a multi-media project from creation to completion. Sound for picture is a terribly complex task fraught with technical traps that can leave audio engineers pulling their hair out. Pro Tools has the features you need to conquer sound projects. The book will prepare you for the challenges involved and give you an understanding of how Pro Tools will help you get through them.

Music recording engineers will find helpful explanations of film and video technology and how it relates to the audio studio. Film and video editors looking to do more complex audio productions can learn how to export projects into Pro Tools for advanced editing and mixing capabilities. Web designers and programmers will be introduced to the world of multi-track audio and digital mixing.

Pro Tools is capable of performing many audio- related tasks , but it is particularly well suited to audio post-production. It has become an international standard in the audio post-production community. This book will teach you how to use Pro Tools as an audio-for-video tool and will help you understand the complete creative process for audio in film, video, and multimedia.

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