Brent Heber | Pro Tools for Audio Pros : Uncategorized

Is ISDN dead?

ProToolsProfessional.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:15:36 GMT

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” [...] Read More......(read more)

NAB2009: Dave Gibbons interview

Brent Heber — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:04:39 GMT

David Gibbons is the lead of the Product Management team of Avid Audio (aka Digidesign). For many years now David has steered the direction of Pro Tools and other products under the Digi banner. In this interview David talks about his role, what he sees for the future of Avid audio and some of his [...] Read More......(read more)

NAB2009: ICON & Video Satellite demonstration

Brent Heber — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:03:52 GMT

In this video interview from NAB last week, Gil Gowing (a regular on the DUC) demonstrates a small film mix stage (or large TV mix stage) using a variety of recent technologies including: Multiple machine/layer control on D|Control ES Satellite Link - locking 3 HD rigs together Video Satellite with Avid Media Composer 3.5 for HD picture playback Neyrinck’s [...] Read More......(read more)

NAB 2009 III

Brent Heber — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:09:52 GMT

Well its late at night and tomorrow is the final day of NAB 2009. (LINK to Video blog showing a main stage demo from yesterday for those curious) Yesterday I managed to be a busy beaver and in between the post suite demos I was involved with (showing Stereoscopic workflows, RED workflows and Video Satellite) I managed [...] Read More......(read more)

NAB 2009 II

Brent Heber — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:31:05 GMT

So here we go! The New AVID!! So if you asked me for a business card last week, it would have read “Digidesign” on it…this week, as of Monday NAB 2009, it reads Avid. New logo, new web site, new direction, new company…seriously. Over the last 10 years, Avid as a company have had many CEOs devoted to [...] Read More......(read more)

NAB 2009

Brent Heber — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:55:04 GMT

Hi all, from Las Vegas! I’ll be over here all week, helping Avid show end to end post production solutions - with particular emphasis on Video satellite HD picture workflows. I’m also looking forwards to hearing Larry Blake speak on the Avid stand - hopefully get some footage to post and share! Avid, encompassing Digidesign, M-Audio, [...] Read More......(read more)

Importing Session Data

Brent Heber — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:25:19 GMT

This video looks at several key workflows utilising the power of the Import Session Data option from the File menu. Specifically: 1. “Changing the tape” type workflows, where you have an existing mix and wish to import new audio to be mixed by it - particularly relevant with the template system in PT8 2. Importing a favourite [...] Read More......(read more)

Comp edit workflow in PT8

Brent Heber — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:25:20 GMT

Hi all, Sorry for the delay between vids, there’s been alot of changes at Avid of late and Ive had to travel quite a bit to keep up with it all! You’ll find a video below that explains the new comp edit workflow in PT8, how to rate a take and how to filter your takes in [...] Read More......(read more)

What next? (a poll)

Brent Heber — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:57:54 GMT

Hey everyone, Just wondering what topics you’d like to see me cover next? Yes! The Blog is “interactive”!! What topics would you like me to v.blog about next? ( polls) addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbrentheber.com%2F2009%2F01%2F18%2Fpoll1%2F'; addthis_title = 'What+next%3F+%28a+poll%29'; addthis_pub = ''; Read More......(read more)

Interrogate those busses…

Brent Heber — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:38:15 GMT

So, another great little feature for ICON users with the release of PT8 is the ability to see your signal flow on the board, by seeing what channels are routed to the one you are touching or where the channel you are touching is routed too…see the video for details! addthis_url [...] Read More......(read more)

What are the “Custom Fader” modes?

Brent Heber — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:40:56 GMT

Sorry for the delay getting this recent video onto the site. Ive been travelling the last few weeks throughout Australia and NZ with Scott Wood of Digidesign in LA presenting clinics on HD picture workflow and the transition to file based workflows. Last video I went into detail with Custom Fader “Plug in” mode and how [...] Read More......(read more)