Using iLock & Digi Translator in Pro Tools

Series Summary

Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation for editing audio and sound engineering for film scores, television shows, music production, and various post production work. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing sounds, effects, and music. Pro Tools is unique because it integrates hardware and software aspect of making and recording sounds.

In this free video series, our expert Alexander Markowski will give you a full tutorial of Pro Tools. He will talk about using ilock and digi translator, opening new sessions, exporting audio, importing audio, using video, using sound busses, using the dv tool kit, automating track levels, using fade shortcuts, mixing audio, recording, connecting peripherals, and using a compressor. He will even talk about setting levels, using an equalizer, using speakers, splitting tracks, and exporting and importing into pro tools.

Video Transcript

"Let's talk about some of the things you'll need in order to do sound editing in Pro Tools. First, you'll need a good computer to put everything on; I prefer a Macintosh platform, though Pro Tools works perfectly well on pc based. Today we have a mac power pro book. You need to have the program, at least the LE version, which is the less expensive version of digi-design. When you buy the Pro Tools software you get the hardware that comes with it. You have a couple choices. This is the M-box 2; it's one of the most versatile of all the options. It gives you the ability to record, listen, sound edit with Pro Tools. In addition to that, if you're going to be working with audio from Avid of Final Cut you need a way to get the audio into your Pro Tools session. The native program doesn't have everything you need to quite get going. At a minimum, what you need to have is something called a digii-translator. The digi-translator actually gets authorized by an I- Lock. The I-Lock is something you need to authorize that. In the best case scenario, if you invest a little more money, you can have time code enabled in your session, as well. In that case, you'll need DV Toolkit 2. This is actually something that authorizes everything I need. I've disconnected at this point, so I'm going through on the screen, and it's showing you all the things that come along with it; It's vocal align. There's the digi-translator, that's the minimum program that you'll need in order to translate everything. At a minimum, that's what you'll need to get going in addition to the software."