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What's the name of the movie used as an example for sound design and mixing in this tutorial? Also, do you know if it's available on any streaming platform?

Thank you for this. How would I learn where the noise sits? Where does the Dialogue sit?

This is all great information! I appreciate the effort! I'm wondering, however, how one would practice the items discussed in this tutorial. For example, dialogue editing. As someone just starting to get into this field, nobody is sending me AAFs. Any suggestions on how to practice dialogue editing? Thanks again for this tutorial...love what you're doing!

In dialogue editing, I like what you suggested - the "first" tone fades out after the "new" tone has fully faded in. This is what I've done and what sounds the smoothest to me. However, can this cause room tone build up? Can that build up be audible? What would the fix be?

A bit boring, but also important: How would you like to talk a bit about folder/file structure for a project?

Im pretty sure Hanz Zimmer uses real instruments

That was amazing and informative. Thank you for doing the live talk, sad I missed it in real time, but happy that it's all there afterwards. I learned a lot and was reminded of a few things that I'm over-complicating in my own workflow (trying to do too much at the wrong stages).

This will become my Bible. Thank you for doing this Tom!

FYI the MOTU 16A has been discontinued for quite some time. (Not sure why they still list it on their website.)

Dude thank you for this. Just saved my arse haha

Do the mono reverbs go to center channel only when working in surround? Thx!

Thanks for doing these videos, it's fascinating to learn about your world and the craft of audio post production!

it`s VERY interesting way of teaching!!! Thank You for the channel. Loooots of usefull informationg you share!

Just watched the beginning of this. I was late to the dance today. Yes, bo-hack is how you say it. Thanks for the shout out!

Bless you

Hey bro, do you know of any program that can join my video with the .ec3 file? In fact, I'm trying to combine a film I made with a Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 mix, I wanted to use DolbyTrue HD, I've already tried AWS Amazon, FFMPEG, Dolby Media Encoder, but nothing worked keeping the quality of the film and the perfect audio, can you tell me to help?

Nice Video explaining how to EQ and conpress a mic There is a reason Shure microphones are both an industry standard and a must have in mic locker They definitely need a ton of gain

I have some questions on the insert and sends on the following as the tracks are small they are abbreviated. 13 PM AUX 14 MnE Aux On insert 1, shows 1 is it a 1 band EQ? What is the 1 band doing and settings? 14 MnE Aux on Insert F show M what is M? Maxim for limiting? Slot F Insert with > what is this? 17 DX Dmx 18 MSX Dmx 19 SFX Dmx Thanks, Leo

I keep having a problem where it says failed to embed audio. Any solutions?

Thanks for the vids Tom. I got a question about exporting interleaved surround. PRotools exports interleaved surround WAVs in flim order L.C.R.Ls.Rs.LFE? Is it possible to have pro tools export in SMPTE order instead? L.R.C.LFE.Ls.Rs

any video recommendations for calibrating a 5.1 system that is using the 18i20?

any video recommendations for calibrating my 5.1 system for mixing films?

Amazing!! Thom, I've a 5.1 mix and I've just send 6 mono channels to the editor. But he told me its his first time exporting ln 5.1 in davinci. Do you have any advice?

creating a printmaster reminded me of the physical process in the early 2000s when stems were physically recorded from one machine to another via a multi-channel AES.

Tom,your videos are amazing,but I would love to see how you create and route a template from scratch. Or if you have it, please can you share the link?

You absolutely nailed it - the best advice anyone just starting out mixing needs to hear is to always have an actual reason for doing something in the mix. Don't just do something for it's own sake, every mix decision should be motivated by a specific problem you identify with your ears and want to solve.

Next video Dolby atmos routing I/O and aux bus

Thanks vro😊

Hey Tom! Got a question about loudness for Vertical Shows. Had done my first vertical video audio mix a week or so ago for a 45 episode ReelShort show. Where their format is 2 min episodes, I was aiming to place everything at -16 LUFS (+/-1) -2 TP. Then I realized that it wasn't exactly possible. I had one 2 min episode that was all loud action with pumping music and SFX for the entire time, then the next episode was all whisper talking. When I placed both 2 min episodes at -16 LUFS, the action episode was very quiet and the whisper-talking episode was much louder than the action one (opposite of what I would have wanted). I ended up just trusting my ears for how it should sound (in say a feature film) going from quiet scene to action scene. When doing that, the action episode came out at around -14 (which was 2 above the rest of the show's 44 episodes at around -16 LUFS). Luckily they didn't have a Spec Sheet for me to follow and nobody was going to QC me other than ReelShort's loudness correction software, but if they did have a spec sheet and wanted everything at -16 LUFS (+/-1), what would you suggest I do? Thanks again for creating this amazing series of detailed videos!!!

Thanks Thomas! What equipment do you use to work in ProTools? Do you use the Hdx accelerator?

Thanks for the video! By any chance do you have any suggestions on ways to mount the ceiling speakers? My apartment's ceiling is at a slight incline (shorter on the front and taller on the back). Therefore, if I just got standard ceiling mounts, they'd be uneven (back 2 would be higher than the front 2). Would probably need something adjustable to compensate for that on the back 2 ceiling speakers.

¡Gracias!

Hey Thomas I've loved all your videos so far, . I've got an idea wich I don't think you've covered and it would be extremely helpfull for us begginers in this industry. As of today, the way I receieve sound for post is an AAF or OMF, sometimes they're mislabeled. sometimes they come with bigger handles, sometimes they come with temptracks, everything is different, but I'll love to know how do pros handle this workflow and what to expect and or demand when asking for the audiofiles. Just an idea. Again, thank you so much

Hello Thomas, have you ever made a video about sync problems between a timecode on a video and pro tools big counter ? i have a delay of 3 seconds at the end of my video, it would be great if you could talk about it ...

took me a couple of those videos to realize, that mine is just old and broken :D

Hey man! After a week, I've finally finished going through your backlog of tutorials and streams and they have been infinitely helpful! Watched/listened to them while I was color grading my short im in post for, now I feel confident enough to start tackling the sound edit and mix haha. Thank you again for taking the time to do these streams, so cool to hear from someone in the industry and see their workflow from start to finish. Excited to see more

So, I understand that in order for Pro Tools to identify the boom/lav tracks, in the Location Sound folder you should already see the separated tracks from each microphone for each take? Like Take 3_boom, Take 3_lavAlec, Take 3_lavJames

Thanks Tom! Is the 6 tr print you’re monitoring a downmix done by the atmos renderer? This has always confused me with atmos. I always assumed one mixes in the highest format, in this case 7.1.2 and then everything downstream (6 tr and 2 tr) are downmixes created by the dolby renderer. Is this correct?

Hey Tom, just wanted to say that you've been hugely influential in my career thus far. I started watching your channel with the "Audio Post" series a few years back, and I can happily say that I just passed QC with a feature where I was the sound editor, designer, and mixer. I even had to build a fully filled M&E for the project. I haven't had the opportunity to get my foot in the door with any post facilities yet, so it is videos like yours that have allowed me to grow as a professional and make a living as a freelancer in post audio. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge on YT!

How can I do this since the program costs nearly 200 dollars?

Thank you for the breakdown! i rebuilt your last 5.1 template, and you are 100% right about it being a good exercise!! The amount of knowledge that came from my own trials (and errors, lol) was priceless. Ive been needing a good explainer for the new dolby integration and how to incorporate it into my template.

Great video. Very helpful!

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I dropped out of film school masters program after 1 semester and watching all my professors films. I didn’t want them teaching me.

M.O.S. motors out of sync

where to get it?

I've honestly never had my mic sounding so good before, finally worth the cash I spent on the sm7b. Best tutorial I've come across. Thanks!

you’re such a great teacher bro! than you

Just a quick note on beds and objects: If you have for example one certain sound effect which consists of multiple audio clips, you might wanna route those tracks to one single Object-AUX. Thus you can use just one object for multiple tracks instead of converting every track to an object. Also, if you want your mix to be re-rendered to a binaural stem, keep the following in mind: Panning automation in a bed will sound different compared to panned objects. Try to avoid panning automation in a bed and use objects for that instead.

I'm curious. Why are you "printing" your stems when you can bounce them directly from PT and deliver those files? 🧐