From the course: Spatial Mixing in Dolby Atmos using Pro Tools

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Session templates for spatial audio

Session templates for spatial audio

- [Instructor] So, like I mentioned earlier, templating is a really big part of my life as a mixer. It's a very handy thing and it keeps me moving and it keeps me creative without having to overthink things. With atmos, I highly suggest that you work with templates a little bit differently than you might be in the stereo world, just because there are so many things that have a tendency to get a little bit buggy, or to not quite work right, and they can really, really sap the energy out of whatever your reserves are for mixing because you really want to save your good energy for that. So when you're setting up a session, I highly recommend that you take the atmos template that you've created and just drag the PTX file, or option + drag it into the folder that you're going to be working in. By and large, for atmos, I highly recommend working with mixed stems. So what does that mean? It means working with stems that have…

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