Using Video for Sound Editing in Pro Tools

Video Transcript

"What we are going to do now is import a movie into Pro Tools. The movie that you?re working on has to be a single QuickTime movie file in order for it to function in Pro Tools. Let?s go ahead and import a movie. I'm going to select file and I'm going to go down to import and video. Find my file that was taken from a short little movie that I cut with my son. We are going to open it up, I've label it "secret test". I have a couple of choices when I import the video; it's going to ask me where I want to put it, session start at specific session point or I can spot it to a specific time code. Let?s put it at session start for now. I also have the choice of importing the audio from the file from the file as well. I do want to import the audio from the movie that way I can use it as a guide track when I start cutting in the real sound effects. So, I'm going to go ok. The audio file is going actually abstract the audio from the movie and put it on a separate file. Its first choice is the audio file folder and I actually make a new folder and I like to call that guide. I'm going to choose that folder and I'm going to put that audio from the QuickTime movie there. So, now I can take look and see my time line, movie track and I also have the guide track from that film. The Pro Tools let you know what time code rate it's running at as well (2997 that's where I want work at). So, that's the beginning, that's the first step to get me going on sound editing. I can also resize my picture. Notice the movie came in as it taken over the screen. I quickly just click on the bottom here and resize my picture to get it to appropriate size. If you have a second monitor you can drag it over to the second monitor. But, now I can see my QuickTime movie and all the tracks I need."