Recently I’ve been working on doing Music for Television Advertisement Campaigns like Hyundai and Burger king.

I wanted to share this experience to show that ProTools is such a Powerful Tool for editing to Video.

“Playlist’ editing is so powerful. Basically the client provides me with a QuickTime video that I import into ProTools using the > File > import Video command. Once I import the QuickTime movie I then write the music and do the sound FX design to timeline. Some of the Ads I’ve been able to use previously recorded Songs that have already been interleaved. When this occurs it allows me to make edits to timeline and I simply use the “Duplicate Playlist” command and make changes allowing me to have Multiple versions of the music without having to open a new session each time. So when the Client makes tweaks or changes I’m able to do this with ease. Also allowing them to have multiple versions. After I finish the edits using playlist, I simply select the Video track for length then use the > File> “Bounce to Quicktime” command. I then Flip the Playlist of the Music edits using the “Playlist view selector” and Do the same thing for each Version. After I’ve bounce each version down I then send them a .zip file with multiple QuickTime movies with audio via Digidelivery.If you don’t have Digidelivery you can use other FTP protocol like Yousendit, Etc.

Make sure to have the “video” on a separate drive. This way your System won’t slow down. Normally when you run Video and audio on the same Hard drive it will cause performance issues. Another very valuble thing to know is if QuickTime is sluggish you can convert it to a DV file. I noticed that when I do this performance is excellent. If you are on a TDM system you can even make small cuts to the video track, which I found recently to be helpful for creative changes. In my last class I had loads of Post questions. I realized that there might be a misunderstanding to some about what the difference is between Post and Music. Know that the general use of Protools is the same for both Post and Music . The primary difference is when your making Music in Protools you are simply mulitracking Audio and midi to Bars/Beats and when your doing Post Production it`s the same except you are using a Video track and Mins/Sec, Feet/Frames timeline. If your job is more demanding for performance because your doing uncompressed video at longer lengths. (i.e. movies, short films, music videos). There is a really cool new way to sync up multiple systems called

“Satelite Link”