What You’ll Learn in Avid Pro Tools Fundamentals 1

The Avid Pro Tools Fundamentals 1 course (PT101) focuses on developing practical, real-world skills that audio professionals rely on every day. You’ll learn how to:

• Create and organize sessions with the correct parameter settings for different types of projects.
• Record and import audio and MIDI, using both live performances and virtual instruments.
• Edit and arrange tracks efficiently with Pro Tools’ powerful editing modes, tools, and shortcuts.
• Navigate your sessions like a pro, using markers, grids, and zoom controls for precision.
• Mix and process audio using EQ, compression, and other essential effects to create balance and depth.
• Export and share your finished work, whether you’re producing a song, podcast, or film score.

Each video module emphasizes hands-on learning so that every concept you study is reinforced through real practice. You’ll not only understand how Pro Tools works, you’ll learn how to use it to bring your creative ideas to life.

Professor Scott Beckett

Avid Certified Expert Instructor

Scott is an AVID Certified Expert Instructor (ACI) for Pro Tools and has taken over 50 post-Doctoral courses in the field of audio, acoustics, audio for video, and live sound applications. In this pursuit of this area of study, Beckett has been involved with the renovation and implementation of new recording equipment in various business and Religious spaces, changes in acoustic environments, and production of many albums that all involve student learning and engagement.