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Dolby E with Paul Neyrinck, Part 2

ProToolsProfessional.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:31:46 GMT

Hi all, Here is the second part of the interview with Paul where he goes into more detail about Dolby E. Paul Neyrinck Interview Part 2 addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbrentheber.com%2F2009%2F05%2F19%2Fneyrinck2%2F'; addthis_title = 'Dolby+E+with+Paul+Neyrinck%2C+Part+2'; addthis_pub = ''; Read More......(read more)

Pro Tools 8 Australian Tour

Brent Heber — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:20:26 GMT

Hi all, 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 [...] Read More......(read more)

New plugs!

Brent Heber — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:12:47 GMT

Well - those of you in music have probably come across the famous SPL Transient Designer in your travels. Its a fairly unique device, playing around with the envelope of your sound, specifically the attack and release. Wouldnt it be nice that if you bought one of these devices, you could use it many different [...] Read More......(read more)

Spanning disks with large trackcounts

Brent Heber — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:44:53 GMT

Of late, Ive seen quite a few clients get themselves into corners, with poor system performance due to track count issues and large sessions. There seems to be an assumption out there that you can run 100+ tracks off the average 5200rpm Firewire drive…that is simply not the case! In this video I show how [...] Read More......(read more)

Expand tracks by Timecode with Concert recordings

Brent Heber — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:07:17 GMT

See the notes under the video… Concert Recording Workflow from Brent Heber on Vimeo. 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 [...] Read More......(read more)

Great bookmarks

Brent Heber — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:18:01 GMT

Hey all, 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 [...] Read More......(read more)

Structure for Post I

Brent Heber — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:48:35 GMT

OK, so Structure for Post won the poll, having 25% of the votes. First off, there are two key features for Structure that are great for post production, drag and drop of samples from the timeline to create MIDI patches and secondly support for Surround sound. Check out this video first and I’ll add to [...] Read More......(read more)

Re-rendering Quicktime movies in Pro Tools

Brent Heber — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:45:22 GMT

Hi all, thanks for visiting the site. Today’s video is a very short and sweet demo of a feature that alot of folks don’t know exists. Ever been in a situation where you want a DV25 res video, or a Motion JPEG movie but the client delivers… wait for it….H.264 Your very favourite system crunching codec. Well, the [...] Read More......(read more)

Elastic Music beds (pt2)

Brent Heber — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:04:00 GMT

Hi all, Following on from my last blog topic on changing tempo of elastic music, this video shows a simpler way of creating dynamic changes, without resorting to tick based audio and the tempo ruler. Each have their benefits. Using the tempo ruler, you can effect multiple tracks at once. Using the warp marker function shown is [...] Read More......(read more)

Elastic Music beds (pt1)

Brent Heber — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:25:43 GMT

Hi all, The video below outlines two possible ways of manipulating the tempo of a piece of production music to easily fit it better to picture. I’ve since thought of another way of doing this and will follow on with a second video on this topic shortly. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbrentheber.com%2F2008%2F11%2F19%2Felastic-music-beds-pt1%2F'; addthis_title [...] Read More......(read more)

Transition to HD Workflow clinic with Scott Wood

Brent Heber — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:50:07 GMT

Hi all, The videos taken below were from Scott Wood’s presentation as part of our 2007 HD picture workflow tour. There is a tonne of great info in here about video resolutions, video satellite, codecs of choice, frame rate niggles and general HD nastiness - if you’re not feeling ready to tackle audio post for HD [...] Read More......(read more)

Elastic Dialogue

Brent Heber — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:07:52 GMT

Hi all, Sorry for the hiatus between videos! Before Pro Tools 8 takes over, I felt it would be good to look over the elastic audio features in 7.4 and how they apply in post production. I see a lot of facilities upgrading to 7.4 for bug fixes or increased stability but still many engineers aren’t [...] Read More......(read more)

Atmos/Ambience beds and Region Looping

Brent Heber — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:13:40 GMT

The only shortcuts I used in the above video were fairly straight forward editing ones: Region Loop = Option/alt + Command/Start + L Using the trim tool at the bottom edge of a looped region to edit the selected content Here is an excerpt of a short cut list I assembled for guys doing quick turnaround/churn and burn [...] Read More......(read more)