{Audio Post exercise - part 1}

Today we're going to practice importing a Quicktime movie into Pro Tools and then add some effects and ambience to bring the clip to life.

The whole key here is to make the sounds happen in sync with the actions in the video. To do this, you will probably need to do a lot of zooming in order to get precise. Remember, the quick keys for zooming in/out are Ctrl [/].

1. First, find the Video Files folder on the Media Share folder and copy it to your own hard drive:
Media Share>Class Materials>Video Files.
2. Now check out all the different video clips in the folder and pick one that you want to work with.
3. Create a new PT session in your folder on your hard drive.
Name it: (your name)_Audio Post exercise.
4. Now import the Quicktime movie - it's the same process as importing audio (File>Import>Video).
5. Place at least 10 different sound FX in your project, including at least 1 track of ambience. You can get sounds either from the Hollywood Edge sound FX library, or by recording your own sounds directly into Pro Tools. Whichever way you choose to go, please LABEL every single track according to what the sound is.
6. Save the session and show the instructor.

Note: you will be doing more work with this session, so be sure you know where the PT session folder is saved and you can find it again.