Adobe Encore CS3 Tutorials
Work with Audio / Mixdown
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I wanted to take a little bit of time to explain what a mix down is when it comes to creating audio files for your production. Now, just to give you an example of why you want to mix something down, as you see here I have Garage Band open and when you're building a song or you're building some special effects, you're going to wind up with different tracks. As you see here, I have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight tracks. Well, for a lot of audio applications and editing applications, it can't really use this many tracks. These have to be squashed down or mixed down into either two speakers, which is stereo, so you have sound coming out of the left speaker and sound coming out of the right speaker or mono, which is one speaker. Now, I'll give you another example. I did a cartoon called the Windowpane and there is a tree that's alive and happens to eat folks. It's not a very nice tree. And I did the tree's voice. So it was me roaring kind of, like a little grumble, combined with a jaguar and a bear and a lawnmower and a tornado and a train and all kinds of cool stuff that I brought into, I think it was, I forgot if it was Final Cut Pro or what application I used, but I had a bunch of tracks and what I did was I had to, you know, lower some of them, I had to fade some of them, blur some of them, add some reverb. I did all kinds of things to these different tracks to get this grumble for this tree monster. And once I wanted to bring that into Flash and then eventually bring that into Final Cut Pro or an application like Premier Pro, I had to take all of these tracks and mix them down into an audio file that's acceptable for the application. So once you're finished working on your production, you have to then mix the track down and as you see here, I have a whole bunch of tracks and then I have to go to the Share Menu so I can then send this on to iTunes, for example. So when I go to Share from Garage Band, it's going to create a mix down of the song for me. So I'll go ahead and show you that I can name it and I can choose my compression settings. Don't forget that Encore understands MP3 as I mentioned before. So I definitely will choose this setting and then once I decide where I want to put it, I click here and then we see this little dialog box and it says Creating Mix Down. This is now taking all these tracks and compressing them into a file format that Encore can actually understand. So that's what that means when you want to make some custom sound effects or some custom songs. Make sure that from your application of choice, mix it down into a file format that is approved for Encore, such as MP3 or any of the other ones that I mentioned earlier.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Encore CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33884 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-00-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-09-30 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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