HowAudio What's New in Pro Tools 7.4: Making Tracks Elastic By Jeff Dykhouse In this clip, host Jeff Dykhouse discusses a number of parameters that you can adjust in Elastic Audio to make it works it best. In this segment he shows how to make tracks elastic, adding various plugins to show the differences between algorithms. He also details the five algorithms that ship with ProTools. ...Read More »

HowAudio What's New in Pro Tools 7.4: Making Tracks Elastic By Jeff Dykhouse In this clip, host Jeff Dykhouse discusses how MIDI tracks behave differently from audio tracks. He covers a new feature in ProTools called Elastic Time or Elastic Audio. ...Read More »

CEN's Top 10 products of the year By John Virata At the end of each year we take a look at the products that have gone through our offices and determine what the absolute coolest products that we've had our hands on for testing. This year we've had several cool products that we wouldn't mind to give or receive as a gift, as well as some others that might just make a difference. So without the added drivel, here they are, in no particular order. ...Read More »

Edit in Media Composer and create DVDs in DVD Studio Pro By Kevin McAuliffe For the last of my three part series, I'm going to take a look at using Avid's Media Composer (MC) to edit with, and DVD Studio Pro to create your DVDs, and the process you will go through to create your DVDs. ...Read More »

Exporting a Media Composer edit to Soundtrack Pro By Kevin McAuliffe For the second of my three part article series, I will look at the second most important part of your edit, and that is the sound mix. In many cases, the sound mix can make or break your show. Avid has always been the leader when it comes to taking an edit from the Media Composer (MC), and sending it via OMF to ProTools for a mix, and then sending it back to MC for the final output. ...Read More »

Why Media Composer editors should not overlook Final Cut Studio 2 By Kevin McAuliffe There's a big dilemma for Media Composer editors these days. They don't want to switch to Final Cut Studio 2 for editing, but they like all the other applications in the Studio 2 bundle. I am definitely of the opinion that Media Composer editors should not overlook the power of Final Cut Studio 2, even if they don't want to use it for editing. ...Read More »

Five Quick Tips For Media Composer Editors By Kevin McAuliffe Since I wrote a review of the new Media Composer (MC) v. 3.0 software, I thought I would take a look at five good, quick tips for all you seasoned and new editors to the software. These tips are not only good for the current version, but would be good for users all the way back to v. 5.5 of the original MC (and yes, I've been editing with MC for that long). ...Read More »

BOXX's loss is a boon to Escape By Ko Maruyama Ed Caracappa recently announced that he is moving into a new position at Escape Studios. As a key member at BOXX and liaison to the outside world for the company, Ed's new post as leader of the sales team for US Commercials over at Escape Studios brings clients and an animation social network. ...Read More »

Battery in ProTools By Graeme Hague VST instruments generally have a stereo output. A rare few are mono. In your digital audio workstation (DAW) they're effectively a stereo audio track with a left and right signal feed from the software instrument. This means you can add audio effects like compression, equalization or reverb to the output channel in the mixer. ...Read More »

Avid's "New Thinking" By Kevin McAuliffe With the recent release of Media Composer 3.0, new hardware configurations, a price cut on both hardware and software, and its "New Thinking" philosophy, Avid is turning a lot of heads in the post production industry. DMN contributing editor Kevin McAuliffe had the chance to ask Kirk Arnold, Executive Vice President of Customer Operations at Avid Technology about some of these bold steps. ...Read More »