Subtitles of the Movie

So how do we go about adding sound, well there's several ways. Foley (?) is an art in and of itself, but as I mentioned this is the Hacker's method. So, we'll just use general midi for our sound, and just as with writing music, we are only limited by our imagination when we are creating sound tracks from motion. Where I am thinking, I want Millie creeping in the door to coincide with the look on Billy's face, just before he's shot and I am going to do it totally free style. Where we have our midi track record enabled, and we can run our movie to determine exactly where we want to place our sounds. So I determined where I wanted to lay my sound in, and set a marker. Remember I want Billy to realize what's going on, just before he gets the fatal shot. So I hit record, jump mover to my synth, and audition it. But we've got some latency, so let's just move it back a bit. Now we can see if our new sound is going to tip Billy off, And it looks like he's thinking, I've seen better days. Ok, let's test it. Oh yeah, you back that frame up and tell me Billy didn't have it figured out. But there's different disciplines within the post audio world, and one of the terms used is sweetening, where we bolster and enhance existing sound tracks - where if this were a real movie with sound from the actual footage, we could enhance that sound. But we are working backwards here. So I've simply thrown the reverb on a door sound to match the ambience of the existing material. And you notice the reverb effect added to the drama of Billy's realization in his last second of existence. So we're ready to send this off to Paramount. In bounce to movie dialog, we set our options, and hit bounce. Now what's going to happen, is Pro Tools is going to bounce that sound, into a completely new version of the movie. And because of this, so I don't get confused, I'll give it a different name. I thinking Emmys, Academy awards, and even of Billy and Millie too. But what's interesting here, is that after the regular bounce dialog Pro Tools hands it over to quicktime, for the saving self-contained movie routine, and a self-contained quicktime movie will leave the original movie unaltered. Somehow I kind of feel like Billy's looking at me funny. But, he will be ok, he gets paid; so out here in the finder we can see our original, final cut pro-movie and the sound files that we extracted from it which we can delete, because they were just work material. And here on the desktop is our finished masterpiece, and we can view it at half-size. So now you throw in a credit roll, create an Italian Opera end for the ending, and you've just made your first movie sound track, in Pro Tools.