June 30, 2008

Pro Tools Basics Tutorial Series

If you are staring from scratch with Pro Tools, this series of introductory video tutorials may be helpful. The content in this short series is very basic, and is intended to act as a foundation for later, more advanced videos. This series is not intended to be comprehensive… it is a just a quick start.

If any questions or problems should arise while watching these videos be sure to check out the Pro Tools documentation, or leave a post below. All video tutorials require the Quicktime Player. Enjoy!

The Pro Tools Interface  13.7 MB / 8:32
The Session File  7.7 MB / 5:30
Importing Audio  10.1 MB / 6:33
Recording Audio  11.5 MB / 7:51
Editing Audio  23.9 MB / 16:51
Routing with Sends & Busses  13.3 MB / 10:28
Automation  10 MB / 6:59
Bouncing to Disk  4.4 MB / 2:45

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Posted in: Digidesign Pro Tools, Engineering Technique, Tutorials

17 Comments on “Pro Tools Basics Tutorial Series”

  1. Jon | July 11th, 2008 at 6:12 am

    WOW!
    These are awesome quality

    Thanks for doing this.

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  3. Arne Bjarne | August 18th, 2008 at 7:54 am

    Incredible!
    A million thank´s for this!

  4. William Rivera | October 20th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    Very NIce…. I like your tutorials a lot. Are you going to make more?

  5. Michael Wilson | February 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 am

    It’s amazing how much I needed these….THANK YOU (more please!)

  6. NV-ME RECORDINGS | March 11th, 2009 at 8:15 pm

    checked out the routing wit send/busses video and i have to say thanks really cleared thinks up. look forward to watching the rest

  7. Impressed | March 26th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

    As a novice to PTLE, this series was great! I watched them all in a row and now am moving on to your more advanced tutorials. Thanks a million!

  8. SulserFilmProdx | April 25th, 2009 at 9:37 am

    Thanks a lot for this, I come from Videocutting and I took some piano lessons as a kid. Additionally I’m fed up with the loop softwares for Videosoundtracks, but found it pretty hard to get into Pro Tools. You really helped me -thanks

  9. Miguel A. Teixeira | May 12th, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Thanks a Lot!!! Great Job. Amazing and simple explanation!

  10. Hector Z | May 14th, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    Great tutorials!
    They helped me remember a lot of stuff I forgot.

    Nice voice by the way. :)

  11. John Domurad | May 16th, 2009 at 7:48 am

    I cant tell you how thankful I am to you fir this . Wondeful
    John

  12. Mick | May 29th, 2009 at 3:08 am

    outstanding!! I thank you for your time, they are another great addition to the store of human knowledge!! ps they are a lot easier to follow than the digi videos, cheers!

  13. Soren Lumholtz | July 23rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm

    Great tutorials. Being a beginner it really cleared things up for me.
    Thanks!

  14. Soren Lumholtz | July 23rd, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    One thing though. You don’t mention it, but I see you do it in later tutorials and that is you always to start with the Master fader and call it MIX, execpt in the tut where you cover tracks.
    I read somewhere else on the net that you should always should start with this. Is that a rule you apply to aswell (And thereby us)?
    Thanks in advance :)

  15. Matt Fordham | July 23rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    @soren: I wouldn’t say it is a rule… but strongly suggested (by me at least). It allows you to monitor the overall level of the mix, and is really the only easy way to do so. Also, it allows for processing the 2-mix… such as overall compression.

  16. TacitusX | October 18th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    Tutorials are great but is there a way to pause and rewind rather than having to replay entire video? I see no transport-type controls on the screen and if I click on the screen the video stops and play cannot be resumed. Thanks.

  17. Vitor Fonseca | January 16th, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    Well done!! I’m new in PT, and it will help me a lot!
    Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

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