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There are not any microphones in the room. 

You will need to checkout these items unless you have your own.

You will need Mic Stands and Headphones

It is recommended to use the same microphones your used on set to record your foley and ADR

But if you are not sure what to use. . . .

We recommend the following mics:

Neumann TLM 103 or U87

Audio Technica 4050 or 4033


Plug your mic into one of the first 4 inputs of the mic snake.

Open the ADR Template in the "Templates" folder on the "tempstorage" Drive

Open UT_ADR_Template.ptx

Choose New Session

Name your new session and choose to save it to your hard drive

SET THE INPUT ON THE TRACKS

On the Track Labeled "ADR_001" Make sure that the input matches the mic input that you plugged your mic into on the "Snake."


Click on A1 and change it to A1, A2 or A3 or A4 depending where you plugged in on the "Snake"

SET THE OUTPUT ON THE TRACKS

Click on "Main" and set the output to Main (5.1>A 1-2 Stereo)



Plug Headphones into the headphone splitter. This device is located under the desk to the right in the rack

The headphone jacks 1-4 control the volume for the "Talents" headphones that are plugged into the snake


Plug your headphones into the headphone amp 5-8

under the rack under the console and adjust the "Input Level" 

so you can hear audio in your headphones comfortably once you start testing levels coming into ProTools later in this doc.

VERY IMPORTANT when you are recording you need to MUTE the sound System or you will get BAD FEEDBACK


Press Mute All on the surround sound Monitor


Import the QuickTime movie to chase in the ProTools project.

YOUR VIDEO NEEDS TO preferably be a 1080 DNxHD QUICKTIME SEE THIS WIKI AVID- Export a AVID DNxHD 23.98 Quicktime

Turn on the projector with the Remote


HDMI 1 is the 3rd Computer monitor if you want to see the

computer screen on the projector


HDMI 2 is the output of the BlackMagic Video Card

To see the Video out of ProTools choose HDMI 2


Next Import the video into the project

Choose Import Video

Navigate to the video file that you want to view in the ProTools session

Choose New Track

Import Audio


Click OK

Choose to import at Session Start

Choose to enable the Video Engine

Click Yes here

If you would like to use the audio off the video file choose to save it to the default Audio Drive folder



Click OK the audio will be imported and saved to your project folder >Audio Files

Video Engine will launch and you should be able to see the image on the projector

Next Go to >Options>turn on Low Latency Monitoring




Make sure that Insertion Follows Playback is OFF unchecked

Also>Options>Pre/Post Roll is checked = ON

Next set Levels coming into protools from the mics connected to the Mic Snake.

Open Focusrite Control in the Applications Folder

Click on Device Settings


Choose the Analogue input you are connected to on the SNAKE in our example

we are connected to INPUT 1

Select - Mic Input 

+48 if your mic needs phantom power

then drag the orange circle around the circle to adjust input levels


HINT drag up and down and the input level will increase and decrease

To see input levels have the talent test the volume while you are watching on

the Focusrite input levels and adjust as needed



To record your ADR, Record Arm the ADR_001 track. It should Flash Red when you press the record button


Press the red record button on the "Transport Tool" as well

Place the marker where you wish to record and click Record 


Click and drag to select a portion you want to record


Click Play then play.  Record mode will start and you will be recording whatever the mic picks up.

The track will turn RED and start recording

To consolidate your files when you are finished recording you need to save them on to your hard drive.

Go to >File>Save Session Copy In

The next menu will come up and choose the "Session Format" allowing you to

choose the current version running

or a previous version of the software.
Make sure that "Copy Audio Files & Movie/Video Files" boxes are checked.




Choose where you want to save the session copy and audio files


Also title the new session file in the "Save As" box

























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