35 Mixing Down Video Lecture | Tracktion 5 Tutorial: Master Music Editing - Video & Sound Editing

in this video I'm going to show you how
to mix down the Edit into an mp3 or WAV
file and this will wrap up this series
on traction 5 I hope you've enjoyed it
let's get right into this so you
probably want to put some sort of a
limiter on the bus as you go to mix down
i'm using tone boosters barricade but
there's many many available on the
market what you actually do with this
bus is really going to depend on how you
actually use the song in the end but you
will want to set the ceiling somewhere
between maybe minus 3 dB I used to set
this to point 3 DB but in more modern
mixing you set this down lower quite a
bit minus 3 DB gives you a little
Headroom when you're going into an mp3
file and the ceiling is the maximum of
full scale that you allow the actual
output to go but you do want to have
something in here on the output you
could use izotope ozone or you could use
waves l2 in this particular case i'm
using tone boosters barricade many many
many choices on the market for your
final limiting you could also put a buss
compressor in here maybe some eq if
you'd like if you're going out to
additional mastering you don't
necessarily need anything on here but
normally if you're going to post this
online you want to put something some
kind of limiter on at this stage so with
the limiter on i'll play back a little
bit you can see how the limiter is
working
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so I don't want the limiter working very
hard but it is capturing Peaks allows
you to bring the level up a little bit
so without getting into a big class on
how that works let's just go into the
mechanics of how you actually export the
song now if you want to control the
ending very carefully you want to put
the loop marker right where you want the
song to end so if you set the cursor
here and hit all that sets the output
marker you don't have to do this but if
you really want to control that to make
sure you've got a little extra space at
the end then set the output marker there
go to the home or the beginning of the
song you've got some extra bars and you
want the song to come in a little bit
ahead of this a little space ahead of
just coming in right on the beat you can
set the input market either by dragging
this flag or putting the cursor where
you want it hitting I so with that set
up that way we're ready to do the actual
export now there's a menu item for
export right down here in the menu
section so you select export and then
render to file so we'll select render to
file that gives us this dialog box now
let's start by rendering to a WAV file
you just select wave right here now in
the top line of the render you can
select the file name you could put in
the song name if you'd like here it will
automatically go into the project folder
which will find it in there later after
it's done or you could export it to your
desktop or some other location you can
choose that here you choose the file
format will choose a WAV file stereo
sample rate this i'm leaving at the
standard for cds if you're going out for
additional mastering you would leave
this at the full resolution of the
project but if you're going to a CD
you'd leave this at 16 bit you can also
remove silence at the start or the end I
wouldn't probably do that you can enable
dithering I'm not going to get into what
did ring is all about but usually when
you're converting the sample rate
between 24 bits and 16 bits you would
leave dithering on only render the
marked region this allows us to make the
song the exact length between the input
and the output markers like I just
showed you
if you're doing your final rendering i
usually do use this and then use the in
and out markers to show exactly what i
want and then render each track to a
separate file if you're mixing out stems
to go into another digital audio
workstation you'd use it for that you
can also render it one time speed if you
for some reason felt like that gave you
a better quality you can turn that on
now normalizing will actually fill up
the file bit depth with the signal peak
to peak rarely will you use this in a
normal music production situation
because that ultimately will not sound
good once you move to mp3 if you're
doing a secondary conversion process
there are situations where you might
want to turn this on some people do use
this for dialogue or voice I would
normally set the way I want it to fill
up the bit depth using my limit or
plugin rather than normalize here you
can also adjust the level based on an
rms level this is more typical of the
way things are working right now again I
would probably do it that way but it is
available right there now once you've
got everything dialed in all you do is
click render and it says render complete
because it actually pre-rendered it so
then once that's complete if you click
back over the project page you can see
this is my audio editing project and
then all of the files associated with
this project are here if I go down to
the end where you see exported audio
MIDI then here is the actual file we've
this is the rendered file so we can get
it from here and use it we can click
right here to play it
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or if you want to just find it right in
your file system you can go right in
here right click and then show the
folder containing this project here's
the project itself click on export it
and then here is the file alright so
with that done let's do the same thing
but create an mp3 file go back to the
menu click on export render to a file
that gives us this dialog now we can
select mp3 file from this list the
options change just a little bit you can
choose the quality and you can also add
id3 information if you'd like so you
click id3 click Edit here you could fill
in all the id3 like the artist the title
album year etc if you want we're not
going to do that at this point we also
have the option to render only the
marked region which we will do and then
you can choose your mp3 quality so this
is the variable bitrate best quality I
think by default it comes up to quality
for normal for variable bit rate if you
want to select a constant bitrate with a
pretty good quality then you'd come down
here and choose 256 or 320 so we're
going to do a 320 constant bit rate for
this I'm not going to normalize it or
just based on the RMS level and then the
option works just the same way click
render since it was doing the rendered
while we were thinking about the options
it's already done back over on the
project page now down here on our export
to you can see we've got our mp3 version
of that file if I right click on my
project show the containing folder again
and look at exported then you'll see
here is the mp3 version of that file and
I could play it
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so that takes us into end with traction
we've gone all the way from installing
the program recording editing adding
virtual instruments using guitar amp
Sims now we've exported a file and
there's still a lot more that you can
learn and explore about traction this is
Bill edstrom have fun and I'll see you
in another video very soon