Pro Tools Tracks: Video Track

 

This blog is part of our new series of tutorials based on Avid’s flagship Digital Audio Workstation, Pro Tools. On the following tutorials, we’ll cover the basic track types included in Pro Tools.

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Getting started with how to create and configure a Video track in Pro Tools

Once you start a new Pro Tools session, you will need to create tracks where audio, MIDI and video material will be recorded and/or played-back from.

Pro Tools presents several types of tracks that you can create and today we will focus on the Video Track.

Video tracks simply let the user playback video material that can be seen on the Video window. Video tracks are useful when working in Sound for Film and Foley, that way you can record audio synced to the video material happening in real time.

 

1. Create or open an existing Pro Tools session:

 

2. From the top menu click on: Track -> New:

 

 

The “New Tracks” window will open as:

 

 

The “New Tracks” window has the following options:

• Create: This field lets you type the amount of tracks that will be created.
• Channels: This drop-down list lets you choose between options such as mono, stereo, LCR, Quad, etc.
• Type: This drop-down list lets you choose between track types such as audio, MIDI, instrument, aux input, etc.
• Samples/Ticks: This drop-down list lets you choose between sample-based tracks and tick-based tracks.
• Name: This field lets you type the track name.

 

For the purpose of this tutorial we will create a Video track.

 

3. Apply the following configurations to your “New Tracks” window:

• Create: 1.
• Type: Video.
• Name: Video.

 

 

 

4. Press “Create”:

 

 

The Video Video Engine will be turned on, this process might take a while:

 

 

Once this process ends, the video track will be created as:

 

 

The user can now import a video, or simply click and drag a video file into the timeline in order to assign it to the Video Track.

Once this is done, you can simply press play and the playback of the video will start.

 

At this point we have successfully created and configured a Video track in Pro Tools.

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