![]() ![]() master 1 program & u can easily pickup others. Yet, if you were to peruse entry-level and / or associate producer job postings, you would find that a majority require at least Pro Tools proficiency, if not “wizardry” (sly is The New York Times, which has adopted the astonishingly vague “ taught me tht audio editing is like learning how to drive. And while Avid has offered a free version of the app since 2015, it’s come with some significant limitations (until 2019, you could only store three projects at a time). The people who have the opportunity to learn Pro Tools have historically often been those who have the ability to work for free in unpaid internships or have the economic ability to pay for either tutoring or actual programs to learn the software. ![]() That learning, of course, involves an investment of time and of money (tuition for Berklee Online’s Pro Tools certificate, for example, amounts to nearly $6,000). How exactly ProTools came to be the production standard in podcasting is a question unto itself, and while a few shops work in the aforementioned Audition, Logic, or Reaper, just about everyone who works in podcasting has at some point had the horrifying realization that Pro Tools is inescapable and they must learn it. It is nightmarish in its complexity, has an (arguably) awful user interface, comes with oft-bemoaned customer support, and is prohibitively expensive, even when compared to similar programs like Adobe Audition. Pro Tools offers layer upon layer of features that, for most podcasts, are entirely unnecessary. Using Pro Tools, it is possible to do almost anything in audio, even though “almost anything” is seldom necessary for all but the most immersive, sound design-forward podcasts. Pro Tools, made by Avid, is a monstrous digital audio workstation (DAW) software. So I quit my day job to do an unpaid training program at a tiny/wonderful radio station, that’s how I learned. A manager at an npr show I really wanted to work at earlier in my career told me not knowing ProTools was why he couldn’t hire me. ![]()
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