Avid Pro Tools 220: Operator Certification Update

Covers changes that have been incorporated into the 100- and 200-level curriculum for Pro Tools 9, allowing Pro Tools users to update their certification from Pro Tools 8 Operator to Pro Tools 9 Operator through a single course.

Prerequisites All courses and exams though Avid Pro Tools 210M or Avid Pro Tools 210P under software version 8.x, Updates for 7.x and 6.x certification are available at select training locations.

Note: The curricula below comprise activities typically covered in a class at this skill level. The instructor may, at his/her discretion, adjust the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class.

Pro Tools 101 updates:

• Background information — Music Production Toolkit 2, DV Toolkit 2, Complete Production Toolkit, MIDI Editor and Score Editor windows, Snap to Grid
• Working with sessions — Quick Start dialog box, Xpand!2, Structure Free, Universe View, Restore Last Selection

Pro Tools 110 updates:

• Getting started with MIDI & audio — Track view options, region groups, the matching criteria window for loop record takes, Transfuser, Hybrid, Structure LE
• Working with Elastic Audio — Elastic Audio plug-ins, Elastic Audio analysis, Elastic Audio markers, Analysis view and Warp view, Elastic Audio pitch transposition
• Mixing and Editing MIDI & audio — MIDI track Velocity view/controller lane, MIDI Thru vs. the Default Thru Instrument, Grid quantize vs. Groove quantize, region looping, Beat Detective

Pro Tools 201 updates:

• Configuration and navigation — Playback Engine options for Pro Tools HD, voice allocation, auto scrolling to track, applying opacity levels to colors
• Session management and editing — Opening sessions with missing files, relinking, Find Links vs. Find All Candidates, Strip Silence, region alignment
• Automation — Pro Tools HD automation modes, viewing multiple automation playlist graphs, automating plug-ins, editing automation
• Mixing with Pro Tools|HD — common mixing preferences, VCA Master tracks, group attributes, voice usage for RTAS plug-ins

Pro Tools 210M and 210P updates (common topics):

• Recording concepts — Monitor modes and TrackInput, QuickPunch and TrackPunch, track compositing, playlist display options
• Automation concepts — Writing static mixer settings (snapshot automation), workflows for writing static mixer settings, automation capture with ICON snapshots
• Session organization — Window Configurations, replacing regions

Additional Pro Tools 210M updates:

• Tracking & overdubbing — Meter and click, working in Dynamic Transport mode, editing with Dynamic Transport mode
• Virtual instruments — Strike, Velvet, routing multiple outputs from plug-ins

• Advanced MIDI production — Using the MIDI Editor window and Score Editor window, Editing notes in the Score Editor

• Professional audio editing techniques — Beat Detective for multitrack drums, drum editing workflow

• Key and tempo — Tempo events vs. Bar|Beat markers, changing the Linearity Display mode, working with key changes

• Printing your mix — Exporting MP3 files, exporting WMA files

Additional Pro Tools 210P updates:

• Synchronizing & linear video in Pro Tools — Clock vs. positional reference, secondary time code ruler, 9-pin control of Pro Tools
• Non-linear video in Pro Tools — Avid Mojo SDI, Backmagic card, selecting the main video track, video track online button

• Importing digital media into Pro Tools — Importing QuickTime video, importing OMF/AAF sequences, using DigiTranslator 2.0

• Working with the Video track — Video track features, locking video tracks, Video Window options, video editing options, Video Universe window

• Recording & editing dialog — Recording ADR, the role of a dialog editor, syncing dialog with TCE and Elastic Audio, cleaning up dialog

• Organizing sessions and mixing to picture — Digibasecatalogs, input and output shortcuts, SignalTools, band-pass mode, using Touch/Latch automation

• Layback options — Edit preview mode for Machine Control track arming, exporting regions as files, bouncing to a QuickTime movie, bouncing to WMA

• Pro Tools version history (appendix)

• DigiRack plug-ins (appendix)
• Creative Collection plug-ins (appendix)
• Session compatibility (appendix)