Starting off with how to move regions around with precisions, using the grabber tool and your cursor position, in combination with keyboard modifers.

Here is the second part of the interview with Paul where he goes into more detail about Dolby E.

Paul Neyrinck Interview Part 2

]]> http://www.brentheber.com/2009/05/19/neyrinck2/feed/ 0 http://www.brentheber.com/2009/05/13/digideliverysourceconnect/ http://www.brentheber.com/2009/05/13/digideliverysourceconnect/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 12:15:36 +0000 Brent http://brentheber.com/?p=60 So how many of you out there have run ISDN sessions? Recording a Voice over remotely? Streaming the talent from one city to another with an ISDN box at both ends?

Its dead technology. Read more below after enjoying this instructional video about voice over recordings:

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s this thing called the “inter-ma-web” and it connects lots of places too, so the smart coders over at Source Elements created a plugin for Pro Tools called Source Connect. It allows a CD quality stream of audio (and TC!) to be pass 2 ways between two PT rigs connected by decent broadband connections. By decent, I used to have it running on a 256k out and 1500k in ADSL connection and it worked great, with a 300ms delay, which for a VO is bearable.

Sournce Connect was susceptible to drop outs depending on your internet connection, so they have developed a new caching technology (with SC 3.x) to go back after the recording and fill in the gaps with Auto-Restore and Auto-replace functions! Well cool!

They also have a plugin for one way communication that would be handy for quick approvals with multiple parties. Its called Source-Live and it sets up a stream from your PT rig (from an Aux out to the plugin) so that anything you play in the studio can be heard by the email recipients who connected to your stream with windows media player or itunes!

I’m hoping to get an interview with Rebecca from Source Elements in the near future and she can talk us through their various SW with a demo.

A second piece of technology that works very well with Source Connect is Digidelivery. DD for short. DD allows the owner of the box (its a rack mounted server) to send large media packages over their outband internet connection as simply as email. Its integrated into PT and Avid Media composer directly from the file menu, so you can simply DD a PT session and it comes up with the dialogue box similar to a Session session copy as – ie would you like to include media, videos files, etc as tick boxes.

These systems have been used together for remote VO records, where source Connect allows for the director/producer to give the talent feedback on their recording from somewhere else, and at the end of the session, the local PT session recording is delivered to them uncompressed via DD. Tidy workflow!

Sorry for the lack of new material coming up at the moment – hopefully get some new vids up soon.
The delay is mainly that I’ve been on the road showing PT8 to the Aussies and once I get through that I’m off to NAB, then back to NZ to continue the tour – no rest for the wicked…

Next week are the Sydney and Melbourne events, hopefully see some of you there!

Sign up for the events by following this link

Not only has this happened, one of our favourite plugin makers, Colin of McDSP has released some more plugs in his “best of breed” family. Specifically catering to the Retro stylings that are so in demand these days. Lots of info on his site, here…

This topic relates to the Expand tracks by timecode feature, that was introduced in PTHD7.4cs5.
It allows you to automatically “conform” your tracklay session (large contiguous files recorded at once) to an edit made by someone else – in the demonstration, a video editor (Media Composer).
So, you have recorded the discrete tracks of a concert, plus a 2-mix. The mix gets given to a video editor along with all the video material. They do a cut of the concert, and hand you back the cut of your original mix file.
With the Expand tracks by Timecode feature, you can now expand out all the discrete tracks, matching the edit to the 2mix given to you…So you can say, bring the bass to the front of the mix when the camera is on the bass player, bring the guitar up front similarly etc rather than a static mix throughout the clip.
As Venue and PTHD systems are used in the field to record more and more concerts, this workflow is a powerful addition to the options for post production of those projects.

Caveats:
1.I handed an embedded AAF over to the video guys with my mix files in them
2.They handed me back a referenced AAF – which I then relinked to the original Mix files in my audio files folder of the concert recording.
3. All files in the session must share an identical “Creation date” in the Project browser. If you have extra files in your session, addition overdubs etc, they may well be expanded as well, giving you many extra tracks that are probably undesirable. It just looks for any region with matching timecode and puts it onto a new track, that’s all. That could encompass alot of material in your session if you are not working with a pure tracklay of the concert.
Hope that’s useful!

PT8 Comp edit workflow from Brent Heber on Vimeo.

Just an interim post with some great resources Ive stumbled across lately.

Firstly, a fellow blogger from the UK, Mike Thornton, who is writing on topics relating to Pro tools and the Media industries. You may recognise his name, as Mike is a regularly contributor to Sound on Sound.

http://protoolsformedia.blogspot.com/

Secondly, for those with more of a music focus, the lads from the AIR group are running their own blog specific to those virtual instruments and software tools such as Structure

http://airvirtualinstruments.blogspot.com/

Avid have recently launched their own version of the mighty Digi User Conference, the Avid Community portal. Its great, with tutorial videos, news and a bunch of good people already involved:

http://community.avid.com/

For more Media composer tricks than you can point a stick at, I recommend the Edit Blog

http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/

Lastly, Michael Phillips of Avid has had his own site, 24p, up for a long time:

http://www.24p.com/reference.htm

Hope these are of use! More on Structure coming soon, its been a busy week and Im off to LA on Sunday.