College application intensive
Learn Pro Tools as an editorial system: organize a session, make precise nondestructive edits, build continuity, route and automate a clear mix, and deliver a verified package.
Completed outcome
Required common orientation / 75 minutes
A reusable orientation to the habits that keep creative projects reproducible, reviewable, accessible, and safe to hand off.
Complete the shared foundationGuided sequence
Module 1 / 3 hours
Translate a delivery brief into session settings, folders, tracks, routing, naming, and save discipline before editorial work begins.
Module 2 / 3 hours
Learn the Edit window as a precision environment and connect edit modes, tools, grids, selections, and shortcuts to different editorial problems.
Module 3 / 3.5 hours
Build natural speech from multiple takes using clip gain, fades, room tone, breaths, and close listening instead of visual alignment alone.
Module 4 / 3 hours
Turn the edit into a controlled session using track roles, groups, submixes, sends, automation, and restrained corrective processing.
Module 5 / 3 hours
Measure programme behavior without mixing to a number blindly, then test intelligibility and balance across realistic listening conditions.
Module 6 / 3 hours plus capstone work
Finish the project by creating masters and stems, inspecting the exported files, cleaning the session, and packaging enough evidence for handoff and archive.
Standardized coursework pack
Dialogue takes, host links, room tone, wild lines, music stems, production notes, transcript, loudness brief, and intentional edit faults. Approximately 2 GB after copying the source WAV files.
Media access: the downloadable files define the required rights-cleared pack, checks, and evidence. Large application media must be distributed by the institution through its licensed learning or storage system.
Why this application
Pro Tools is the room standard in post-production audio, and the reason is handover rather than features. A session built in one suite has to open in another with its media, routing and versions intact, and this expectation shapes how the application works. Playlists keep alternate takes attached to the track rather than scattered across a timeline. Clip gain sits apart from fader automation so a level decision made during editing survives the mix. This course treats the session file as the deliverable it is in professional work. You will spend as much effort on naming, consolidating and relinking as on the edits themselves, because an edit nobody else is able to open is unfinished work regardless of how it sounds.
Portfolio assessment
Transform supplied raw dialogue, links, music, effects, and room tone into a coherent 6-8 minute programme that preserves speaker meaning and meets the supplied stereo delivery specification.
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| Creative and editorial judgment | 25 |
| Technical execution | 25 |
| Workflow organization | 15 |
| Application fluency | 15 |
| Delivery and quality control | 15 |
| Documentation and reflection | 5 |
What counts as strong evidence under each criterion, and what sends it back for revision, is set out in full on the shared foundation. The same wording ships with this course as rubric.csv.
Read 21 September 2026
The vendor documents below were read. The course teaches menus and shortcuts, and software changes them between versions, so confirm a menu path against the vendor's current documentation before you rely on it. For the software documents only the title, version and date were read.
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