New blog

This is a blog that was used in a class from 2008-2009.

All the postings are still here. For more up-to-date lessons and materials, please refer to:
http://dpaudiob.blogspot.com/

Thanks for your interest and feel free to contact me (crunde@bavc.org) with questions or feedback.

-Chris R.
Digital Pathways Instructor

Burning Your DVD Portfolios

Portfolio
(Media share>(Your folder)>Portfolio)

• MUSIC
• Song 1 (.wav file)
  
• Song 2 (.wav file)
  
• Song 3 (.wav file)
  
• Pro Tools Sessions
• Logic Sessions
• AUDIO POST PRODUCTION
• Quicktime movie 1
• Quicktime movie 2
  
• Pro Tools Sessions
• Resume

Burning DVDs
Burning is super easy if you already have everything ready to go. Just follow the instructions below:

1. Log in on the Mac side of your computer (this is the only way to burn your Logic files)
2. Get a blank DVD from the instructor and pop it in.
3. A window should pop up asking you what program you want to open it up with. Choose Finder.
4. Now access the Media Share folder. (Ask the instructor if you don't remember how to do this.)
5. You should now have two windows open, one for the DVD and one for the Media Share. Simply drag and drop your portfolio into the DVD.
6. Hit the Burn button and let it burn, baby burn!!!
7. Eject your DVD and label it with a permanent marker.
8. Show it to friends, prospective employers, your grandma, whoever.

LAST DAY OF CLASS!!!

Alright folks, today is our Last Official Day of Class! It has been an absolute pleasure working with all of you and seeing you grow as artists and producers. I hope that you feel that you've learned something valuable from this experience. We would really like to hear back from you about what your experience with the class has been like. Please take the time to take this quick online survey.

Final Event
Next item of business, let's all email ourselves the info for our Final Event! Please copy the following info into an email and send it to yourself.

Where:
Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia St. (between 15th & 16th St.)
San Francisco
map

When:
12:00 pm
Sunday, June 7


Please start telling family and friends about our event now! This is will be our last opportunity to get together as a class and to share our work with the world, so we want as big a turnout as possible.

What can you expect from the Final Event? Well, obviously we will be playing all your work for an audience. If you will be performing live, you will have mics to do your thing (don't forget to give me an instrumental of your beat!!!). I will also be asking you to come up to introduce your piece before I play it, and to say a little about what it is, why you chose it, what you were trying to do with it, challenges you dealt with in making it, etc. Then at the end, we will all be coming up as a class and taking questions from the audience.

What else do we need to do to prepare for the Event? Well, of course you need to turn in exported files from your Final Projects.

• If you are doing an Audio Post piece, please Bounce out a Quicktime movie.
• If you are doing a Music piece and will not be performing live, then Bounce out an audio file of the whole song (WAV format, Stereo Interleaved, 44,100 Hz, 16 bit).
• If you are doing a Music piece and will be performing live, then Bounce out audio files of both the full song AND an instrumental version of the song (i.e. Mute all the vocal tracks and bounce the song again).

Important! Please label your files as follows: DPAA_your name_song name and put them into the folder called Final Projects on the Media Share folder (dolly>Media Share>Final Projects)

Shooting the Trouble

Today we have 2 main priorities:

1. We will be doing our Troubleshooting Evaluations, where you show me that you know how to get a basic recording session up and running in Pro Tools.
2. To make sure we create our Student Profiles on the BAVC blog and get our information in there.

Troubleshooting
So after a quick review, I'm going to have each of you come up and show me how to get a session going. Here are the exact things I'm going to ask you to do, so if you are unsure about any of these, please be sure to ask me to go over them before we get going.

1. Select vocal and talkback microphones. Set up the vocal mic on the mic stand.
2. Plug cables and headphones into inputs on the Digi 003.
3. Create a new Pro Tools session in a designated folder.
4. Create new audio tracks and label them accordingly.
5. Get signal from the mics and set good levels.
6. Adjust headphone levels.
7. Record a short vocal segment.
8. Save and close the Pro Tools session.
9. Transfer the session folder to the Media Share folder.

Profiles
Corina will be helping folks out with their Profiles. It will be helpful to her if you can get a things together beforehand. You will need all the following elements for your profiles:

• Your Resume
  
• A Music File (MP3 format)
  
• A Photo
• A Bio
  

Let's try to get it done today!!!

Peer Reviews

**Job Readiness Workshop**

Have you ever had a job?

If so, how did you get it? What was the process? Did you feel as though you were prepared?

Today we're going to be working with Felice on getting ready for our internships. Please ask lots of questions and use this time to really get ready for stepping into the professional world.

Felice will be getting here at about 5:15. Until she gets here, I will be meeting with you individually to discuss where your Final Project is at and what you need to get done.

Final Projects_Work Schedules

Unfortunately, Felice had to postpone the Job Readiness workshop until Monday, so please be ready to do this then. In the meantime...

So today you have the whole period to work on your final projects, but as you are doing this, I want you to start thinking about what the different pieces are that you will need to get a really good, polished project ready by the time we have our Final Event.

To help you with this, I have put a document on the Media Share folder (Media Share>Class Materials>Final Project Schedule).

Please drag a copy of this to your folders and open the document. Fill it out and turn it in to the Student Work folder by the end of the class.

Final Projects and Important Dates

Important Upcoming Dates:

• Wednesday, May 6 - Job Readiness Workshop w/ Felice
• Friday, May 8 - Makeup class (3-6 pm)
  
• Friday, May 15 - Makeup class (3-6 pm)
  
• Saturday, May 16 - Our last Saturday class!
• Monday, May 18 - Peer review presentations
• Wednesday, May 20 - Troubleshooting Evaluation
• Monday, May 25 - Memorial Day (no class)
• Wednesday, May 27 - Last day of class
• Sunday, June 7 - FINAL EVENT!!!

Final Projects
At the Final Event for this class, everyone will be presenting a Final Project. Starting today, our main focus is going to be in getting these projects completed. This is your chance to make a polished audio project that showcases the skills you have acquired throughout the course of the program. You can decide what you want your project to be, as long as it uses the skills you have learned in this class (recording a song, audio post production, etc.)

Your project should:

• Be a reflection of your own unique experiences and skills – give me something that no one else in the world can give me!
• Be at least 5 minutes long
• It can be more than one project that add up to five minutes
• Polished, complete and to the best of your ability
• It should have some type of live recording
• Include great attention given to the mix (volume, panning, FX, automation)
  

If you are making a song/spoken word piece...

• It should have a deliberate arrangement and structure that keeps the listeners interested
• Vocals: rap, singing, poetry, essay, Speech
• Complex instrumentation
• Final piece Exported/Bounced song as an audio file
  

If you are doing Audio Post Production...

• All actions and dialogue should have corresponding audio with them - good synchronization, no empty gaps.
• Should have a musical score that you create
• Mix the audio - make the actions believable with the use of mixing, panning, FX, and automation.
• Export/Bounce the final piece as a Quicktime movie
  

Couple things...
Collaboration is encouraged, but be careful to budget your time accordingly - ESPECIALLY regarding the use of the vocal booth. Be considerate of the fact that everyone needs to have access. You are encouraged to constantly seek peer feedback throughout the production process (formal Peer Review will be happening on May 18).If you have an idea for a project that is different from the two options above, please talk with Chris and/or Corina to discuss how you can make this happen.

Logic Express - part 3 (Insert FX)

So today I want you to continue getting familiar with working with the Software Instruments in Logic, but today I would like for you to create a complete piece that you can use to record vocals over next week.

This can be whatever form that works for you, whether you are rapping, singing, or reading a poem or speech. Whatever it is, I would like for it to have a definite structure:

• If you are doing a song, give me at least 2 Verses, 2 Choruses and an Intro/Outro.
• If you are doing a poem/speech, I want to have specific musical things happening along with parts of the text.

In addition, I would like to see all of the following elements in the music you produce today:

1. At least 6-8 instruments in your song.
2. Use at least 3 different FX on your tracks (1 Delay, 1 Modulation, and 1 of your choice).

FX Plugins
So, in my opinion, one of the best things about Logic is that it has all kinds of instruments and FX that come with the program, and which you can start using right away. Pro Tools, on the other hand, tends to give you a lot fewer tools to start with, but gives you the option of buying them as you start to use the software more.

The FX in Logic actually work the same way that they do in Pro Tools. The easiest way to use them is to Insert them directly onto your tracks. To do this, simply do the following:

1. Find the Insert section of the track in either the Inspector Section or in the Mixer Window.
2. Click on one of the empty boxes.
3. Select one of the categories from the dropdown menu and click on one of the options in the submenu.

Intro to Logic Express- part 2 (Software Instruments)

Last week we started working with Logic Express and started to get familiar with the layout. Today we're going to get a little deeper into it and start making original beats using the Software Instruments.

The Software Instruments in Logic are simply MIDI-based instruments that you can play with your keyboard and/or program from inside Logic. They are basically just like the instruments in Reason that you are already familiar with, but they are already inside this DAW program, which means you have full control over every aspect of the music (composing/editing/mixing) all in one place. How is this is different from the way we have been working with beats in Pro Tools?

To use a Software Instrument in your song, do the following:

1. Start a new Logic session or Open an old one.
2. Open the Track Menu and click on New.
3. In the New Track Window that pops up, adjust the settings to create 1 Software Instrument.
4. Click the Create button and you should see a new track appear in your Sequencer Window.
5. Now look over to the left side of the screen and find the I/O symbol. Click on the box below the I/O and a list of all the Software Instruments pops up.
6. Select the one you want to work with and specify whether you want it to be Mono, Stereo, or Multi Output.
7. The Instrument should pop up for you to work with and your MIDI keyboard should now be controlling it. Try playing a few notes to make sure.

OK, so since we now know how to create Software Instruments, let's try working with one of them. Just like in Reason, a logical (haha) place to start is with the drums. One of the main drum plugins in Logic is called Ultrabeat. It works very similarly to the Redrum, so it should be really easy for you to get up and running with it. Please do the following:

1. Create a new Software Instrument track and load up Ultrabeat using the steps laid out above.
2. Try listening to the sounds in it by either playing some keys on your keyboard or by clicking on the notes of the keyboard on the left side of the window. If you like these sounds, skip ahead to Step 4. If you want to change them, go to Step 3.
   
3. On the right side of the Logic screen, look under the Library tab and click on Drum Kits. Click on whatever one you want to work with.
4. In the bottom right corner of the Ultrabeat window, click on the button called Full View. The window should change to show a big grid. This is the Sequencer where you can program your beat.
5. Turn the Sequencer on by clicking the blue circle button right under where it says Sequencer. Hit the Play button right next to it to hear the pattern play.
6. In that same area (lower left corner) find the pattern number (1 (C-1) sq) and click the little triangle next to it.
7. Click on one of the patterns that does not have the letters sq next to it.
8. Click on the sound you want to start working with and make sure it is highlighted.
9. Click on any of the boxes where you want the drum sounds to hit and make that slap.
10. When you are ready to really bring it into your song, click on the little box next to where it says Pattern and drag that into a track.
11. Copy the beat out for as many bars as you want it to go.
12. If you want to work on a fresh pattern, don't forget to change the pattern number.

Please create a verse (16 bars) and a chorus (8 bars) using the Ultrabeat drum machine. Get them all into the Main Sequencer. Let Chris or Corina check it out when you're done.

**Resume Workshop**

Today we're going to take a short break from the technical stuff to talk about a topic that is extremely important for our ability to become professionals: resumes. We've talked a little about resumes here in class, so we generally know what they are. Wikipedia says:

"A résumé is a document that contains a summary or listing of relevant job experience and education. The résumé or CV is typically the first item that a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker and is typically used to screen applicants, often followed by an interview, when seeking employment."

So, we're going to be working with BAVC's Internship Coordinator, Felice Archbold, who is going to help us put together really solid resumes that will help us highlight our skills. Please keep in mind that Felice is going to be in charge of finding YOUR internship, so the more you can help her by putting effort into your resume, the better she will be able to help you find a great internship opportunity!

Intro to Logic Express - part 1 (Loops)

Thank you to everyone who made it out and brought people to Family Night last week. I was really proud of all the work that everyone produced and I think that our families were very impressed. We will be talking about it more soon, but I want everyone to start thinking about our Final Event and what kind of project you might want to do. Just to give you a heads up, I will be expecting everyone to get up and present a piece of work.

Also, FYI, this Wednesday, April 22 we will be working on our resumes with Felice, our Internship Coordinator. This is an absolutely mandatory class! If you want to get an internship, you have to come to this class. I'm going to take it a step farther and say that in order to receive you stipend check, you need to be here. If you think you will be missing this class, let me know today and we can talk about what you need to do to make it up.

OK, but getting back to business...

Today we are going to start working with another DAW software called Logic Express.  What does DAW stand for? What is another example of a DAW.

Logic Express is a "limited functionality" version of Logic Pro, Apple's own DAW software platform. For the most part, they look and perform the same. The main differences are that Logic Ex. can't do surround sound, can't handle certain professional software/hardware applications, and doesn't have as many plugin instruments. Everything else is pretty similar.

Right now, let's just get familiar with the main sections of the screen:
- The Arrange Area
- the Editing Area
- the Toolbar
- the Inspector
- the Transport Bar
- the Media or Lists Area

Just like Pro Tools, in Logic you are basically just working with regions on tracks. And, as in PT, there are a number of ways that you are able to edit these regions. Here are some basic navigation/editing techniques:

- Drag a region to move it.
- Option-drag a region to copy it.
- Place the mouse pointer at the end of the lower right corner of a region to resize it.
- Place the mouse pointer at the end of the upper right corner of a region to loop it.

Today we're going to use these techniques to put together a basic song using some Apple loops. Apple loops are free musical loops that come with Apple computers. They are used a lot in Garageband. 

Let's go ahead and start putting together a basic song and get familiar with working in Logic Express.

1. Launch Logic Express.
2. In the Collection Section on the left, click on the Compose Tab and Create an Empty Project.
3. In the Track Window that pops up, Create 1 Software Instrument Track.
4. Click on the Loops tab in the Media window.
5. Browse through and find at least 8-10 loops that you can create a song with and drag them into your Arrange window to work with them.

6. Create a song that has an Intro, 2 Verses and 2 Choruses.

7. Save this as your name_Logic beat1

**Family Night**

Welcome to the Digital Pathways Advanced Audio Family Night! We are really happy that you came through to listen to some of our projects and check out what we do here. We're going to have a short presentation featuring some of our projects. Please feel free to move around and check out each student's workstation to see the diverse range of styles and talents that we have in our class.

And help yourself to snacks!

If you have any questions about the class or other BAVC programs, don't hesitate to contact either myself (crunde@bavc.org), or Naomi Kawamura, our Assistant Director of Next Gen programs (naomi@bavc.org).

Thanks for coming out!

Clean it up!

Welcome back, my friends!

Hope you all had an exciting and/or relaxing Spring Break. As we had discussed last time, we will be having our Family Night on Wednesday, April 15 from 6:30-7:30 pm. How many of you think you will be having folks come through? We will have some snacks and light refreshments, FYI.

Also, we will NOT be having a class this Saturday, April 18. Unfortunately, there was a schedule conflict with another BAVC class that day and there doesn't seem to be any dates that we can reschedule to right away, so for now you all get the time off...

In the meantime, here are the two things I want you all to be focusing on today:

1. Please finish up all your Audio Post Production stuff. You can check to make sure you have everything in by going to Media Share>Student Work. Check all the folders that are highlighted orange and make sure you see your file in there.
2. Put any work that you would like for me to share with our guests into the Student Work folder. It can be either music or an audio post piece (I may pick a few select pieces to play). Put a copy in the folder called Family Night. I would like every person to contribute at least one piece that they want to share!
3. Work on some music! We're about to finish up with this audio post stuff and switch back to music (using some different tools), so let's start shifting our brains back into musical mode.

Finish Film scores and get ready for the fam!

Alright folks, so a couple things...

FIRST and foremost, we will be having our class' Family Night on Wednesday, April 15, from 6:30-7:30 pm. This will be a chance for your family (and friends) to come and check out all the amazing work you've been doing since we started this class. This is going to be a pretty chill event where I'm going to talk a little bit about the class and what we've been learning, and I'm going to play some examples of work for our visitors. Folks will then be free to walk around to your computers and check your stuff. Please tell your loved ones and homies to come out and support!

SECOND, next week is Spring Break. NO CLASS that week. I want you to rest up, enjoy your week off and come back the following week ready to work your booty off for the last month and a half of the program.

So what does that mean for today?

Well, everyone has a bunch of stuff to do. Keep in mind that you only have two classes - today and Monday, April 13 to finish all your work and get it ready to show to your folks on Family Night. Today, I want you to focus on the following tasks:

1. Finish and turn in at least 1 of the two film score assignments from the last two classes, along with the worksheet. If you already turned in the first one (Juan), then please move on to the second one today. If you're still finishing the first one, finish up and move on to #2.
2. Finish and turn in all the rest of your Audio Post Production assignments. These should include Audio Post FX 1 (Buster Keaton), Animation FX (the janitor), Trailer ADR (the dialog), Scary Score (Haunting in Connecticut), and your 1-2 Film Scores.
3. CLEAN UP YOUR COMPUTERS!!!

In terms of cleaning up your computers, please do the following:

• In your folder with your name on it, create three folders and label them AUDIO POST PRODUCTION, MUSIC, and Work in Progress.
• [Optional] Give AUDIO POST PRODUCTION and MUSIC their own nice outline colors so that they're easy to see (right-click on the folder name and pick a color).
  
• Put all your finished Quicktime movies into AUDIO POST PRODUCTION.
• Put all your best music into MUSIC (audio files and/or Reason files).
• Put EVERYTHING ELSE into Work in Progress. This includes Pro Tools sessions, random Reason beats, etc.
  
• You should only have 3 folders in your main folder now:

Audio Post: Film Scoring - part 2

Alright, I'm back folks! I hope you had a productive day last week when I was gone and that you were able to catch up on missing work. Now that we're all together again, we're going to get back into working on film scores.

Today, I want you to pick two more short clips that you're going to work with (in separate Pro Tools sessions). You can find the clips in Media Share>Class Materials>Movie Trailers>Film Score.

Please do the following:

1. Check out all three clips and pick two that you want to work with. Copy them to your hard drive.
   
2. Go into the same folder and get the file called Film Scoring_writeup. odt (Media Share>Class Materials>Movie Trailers>Film Score>Film Scoring_writeup.odt). Copy it to your hard drive and open it.
   
3. Fill out the worksheet for the first film.
   
4. Save the document as your name_fs writeup.
   
5. Start a new Pro Tools session and Import the first movie clip into it.
6. Create an original score using Rewire and/or other soft synths. (minimum 3 instruments)
7. When you are done, save the PT session as your name_film score 1.
8. Bounce the clip with your original score as a Quicktime movie called your name_film score 1.
9. Put a copy in the Student Work folder on the Media Share.
10. Repeat the above steps for your second film clip. Be sure to label both the PT Session and the Quicktime movie for this one as your name_film score 2.
11. Turn in the fs writeup document to the Student Work folder.
    

Make It Up

Alright folks, so I'm out of town, but that doesn't mean you don't have anything to do while I'm gone! Like I said on Wednesday, I would like for you to use today to make up missing assignments, especially the audio post stuff we've been doing for the last few weeks.

Here are the assignments I am missing from each person:

• Luis - Animation FX, Trailer ADR
• Taurean - Audio Post FX1, Trailer ADR, Scary Score
• Juan - Audio Post FX1, Trailer ADR, Scary Score
• Robert - Animation FX, Trailer ADR, Scary Score
• Gio - Audio Post Exercise, Audio Post FX1, Animation FX, Trailer ADR,
  
• Alexi - Audio Post Exercise, Audio Post FX1, Animation FX (no dialog!), Scary Score (no sound)
• Monjaro - Animation FX (movie is cut short), Trailer ADR
• Tony - none
• Rowvin - Audio Post FX1, Animation FX, Trailer ADR, Scary Score
• Victor - Audio Post FX1, Trailer ADR
• Chris - Audio Post FX1, Scary Score
  
• Marisol - Trailer ADR,
  
• Monica - Audio Post Exercise, Trailer ADR, Scary Score
  

Audio Post: Film scoring - part 1 (Rewire)

OK, so by now we have done some work with FX and dialog. Today, I want to spend some time working on the main musical aspect of film: the score.

According to Wikipedia:
"A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film...The term soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does not. A score is written specifically to accompany a film, by the original film's composer(s).<sup>"


So what are some of the differences between film scores and other kinds of music (like hip-hop songs?)
What kinds of instruments do you typically hear in a score? What kinds of things do you NOT hear?

The main purpose of the film score is to support the overall feel of the film and convey the emotions of the different scenes to the audience. It is very important for film scorers/composers to keep in mind that the main focus has to be the characters on the screen and the dialog. Usually, the music is NOT supposed to be the main element that the audience is focusing on, so the music should be done in a way that doesn't compete for the audience's attention - meaning you don't want the audience nodding to your beat when the characters on the screen are having a serious conversation!

So, you folks have actually already done some film scoring of your own in the last assignment. Did you have any challenges as you were doing it? Did the music line up with the images from the video?

Today we're going to focus a little more on scoring, but this time, you're going to write your music directly to the video. In order to do this, we need to get Reason working together with Pro Tools. This is possible through a thing called Rewire. Rewire allows you to control Reason through Pro Tools.

To Rewire Reason into Pro Tools, do the following:</sup>

1. Create a new Pro Tools Session.
2. Go to Track>New.
3. Change the settings to 1, Stereo, Aux and hit the Create button.
4. Now go to the Mix Window.
5. At the bottom of your new Instrument track, find the little triangle and click on it. Make sure there is a checkmark next to the word "Instrument" in the menu that pops up. You should see this section appear at the top of the track:
6. In the Inserts section, click on one of the double arrows and go to multi-channel plugin>Instrument>Reason. Reason should start up.
7. In Reason, create an instrument that you can play with the keyboard (Subtractor/Malstrom/NN19/NNXT/etc.)
8. Now go back to your Mix Window in Pro Tools.
9. In the section at the top of the track, find where it says "none" and click on it. This is where you tell Pro Tools which Reason instrument you want to control with your keyboard.
   
10. From the menu that drops down, click on the name of the instrument you just created in Reason. You should now be able to play the instrument from Pro Tools and record it, just like you would in Reason.
11. From here you can create as many instruments in Reason as you want and create Instrument tracks for each one in Pro Tools. Don't forget to label them!!!

So, your assignment today is to Rewire Reason into Pro Tools and use it to score a short video clip. Please do the following:

1. Create a new Pro Tools session and name it your name_scary score.
2. Find the file on the Media Share folder called hauntinginconnecticut-edit01. (Media Share>Class Materials>Movie Trailers>haunginconnecticut-edit01). Copy it to your hard drive and Import it into your Pro Tools session.
   
3. Watch it and start to think of what sounds you might want to use.
4. Create and Instrument track and use Rewire to load Reason into it using the instructions above.
5. Create an original score for this piece that uses at least 3 instruments and has a buildup section and a loud hit to scare the viewer. Make it scary!!!
   
6. When you finish, Bounce it as a Quicktime movie and turn it into the Student Work folder.
   

Audio Post FX1 projects (Buster Keaton)

Audio Post: ADR

Did you know that most of the dialog that you hear in a movie was not recorded at the time when the scene was actually being shot? A lot of the actors' lines were rerecorded in a studio in order to get better sound quality, or sometimes a better performance. This process is called Automatic Dialog Replacement, or ADR. The trick is for the actor to be able to recreate the emotion from the scene and make it sound as natural as possible. Here is a clip showing the ADR process on the film "King Kong".



Real ADR is done through a process called looping, where a short scene is played over and over and the actor performs his/her lines repeatedly until he/she gets them just right. It is the mixing engineer's responsibility to make the recording sound as believable as possible in the scene. This is done by making decisions in the recording process (microphone placement) and in the mix afterwards (using reverb and other FX to make it sound like the character is in the actual setting on screen).

We are going to get into more professional looping later, but for today, I just want you to practice doing your own basic ADR. Please do the following:

1. Go into the Media Share and check out all the different movie clips that I have picked out for you. (Media Share>Class Materials>Movie trailers). Pay special attention to the dialog and the music being used.
   
2. Pick one you want to work with and copy it to your folder on your computer.
3. Start a new Pro Tools session and call it your name_trailerADR.
4. Import your movie clip.

Now do one of the following:

• Get a microphone and begin recording all the lines in the film. You should not be personally doing all the ADR! Get your classmates to play different characters and record them. We will be trading the mics every 45 minutes, so try to work quickly!
  
• In Reason, make 2 different beats that are each 30 sec.-1 min. in length. You are going to use these as the music bed for your clip, so make sure they match the emotion of the scene. Export your beats as audio files and import them into your Pro Tools session.
• Find and place FX for the most important actions on screen (explosions, etc.)