Audio Post Production for Film 101 - Background Ambience Sound Effects Editing in Pro Tools

In this sound effects editing tutorial we start our sound design process in Pro Tools, focusing on adding background ambience to scenes using Soundly.

Background ambience can help further smooth dialog, add to the story, and give vital clues about the environment that are not shown visually. It's one of my favorite parts of editing sound since it requires imagination.

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0:00 Intro
1:04 Hiding the dialog tracks
1:37 Keeping temp SFX in the session
1:55 SFX types
3:17 Adding AMB tracks to session
4:39 Grouping AMB tracks
5:09 making a scene/cut track
6:36 Static vs dynamic BG
8:45 Using Soundly to search for sound effects
10:36 Adding specific language BG tracks
11:20 Cutting one side of the call
12:34 Two sparse BG vs one busy BG
13:37 Cutting the other side of the call
14:45 Cutting long sections for sound continuity
15:31 Checkerboarding cuts
16:00 Playback and adjusting transition for prelap
18:40 Using volume automation to pull focus
18:57 Spot BG definition
19:22 Example 1 - Apartment to outside transition
20:45 Example 2 - Police walla and spot fx
21:18 Example 3 - Mechanic shop thick BG
22:36 Example 4 - Using BG to add to story
23:52 Example 5 - Carrying sounds over the cut
25:05 Example 6 - Prelapping a cut
25:26 Outro and overview