The straight-forward answer is that I'm not a grid kind of guy. The music I record doesn't lend itself to landing on precisely 0 ticks. I don't do electronic music. I do mostly live musicians playing real instruments and any editing I do is based on natural phrases. Sometimes I do need to nudge something a little forward or back but then it's just a matter of milliseconds, sometimes 10, sometimes 100, whatever is required.
I flip between Shuffle mode and Slip mode. Most of the time, I use slip mode if I'm editing multitrack sessions for individual performances. Otherwise, I use Shuffle when I'm editing between multitrack takes of live performances like jazz ensembles, orchestra, etc. Slau On Oct 30, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Poppa Bear <heavens4r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Slau, Why don't you use grid mode, and what mode do you use and why? > Thanks > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slau Halatyn" <slauhala...@gmail.com> > To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:40 AM > Subject: Re: Questions about Clips > > > Hi James, > > 1. Use the "Import" command under the File menu and choose "audio." Navigate > to the file, press Enter and then press the Done button. You'll be prompted > whether to import to the session or import to a track. Choose the "track" > radio button. > > 2. That's exactly the steps for auditioning the various takes (or playlists). > The master playlist is simply the very first playlist that is created when a > track is initially created. There's nothing else that has to be done, it's > simply the first. Yes, you can use the Control-Option-v shortcut but, first, > you'll have to pass through the shortcut because VoiceOver uses it for > adjusting verbosity. Further, once you've pasted it to the master, you can't > hear it in context, that is, with the audio that precedes or follows it. I > suppose one can just listen to those transitions later and fix them as > needed. My personal preference is to actually navigate to the master playlist > and audition the beginnings and endings on the spot. > > 3. The scenario you're using in your final question is best achieved with > either visually dragging in grid mode or simply cutting and pasting on the > grid. Again, I personally don't use grid mode but I seem to remember somebody > trying it and having some success. Again, I couldn't verify how > easy/difficult/successful/unsuccessful it would be. > > Cheers, > > slau > > > On Oct 30, 2013, at 4:53 AM, James Lee <jameslee...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> HI Slau, >> >> Thanks so much for answering my questions! This is awesome! I have a few >> more questions. >> You wrote: import the clip to a new audio track , cut the clip and paste it >> into the desired spot on the track you're working on. >> Question: How do you import a clip to a new track? >> >> You wrote: If you make a selection in the master "Vocal" playlist, you can >> audition the various takes and the transport will just play the selected >> area. When you find the take that sounds best, copy, then move to the master >> playlist and paste. >> Question: How do you audition the various takes? This is how I do it, but >> I'm not sure if this is what you mean. I click the play list button, choose >> a different playlist, and then play. >> Also, how do you mark a playlist as main? It says if I press >> option,control,v, it copies selection to main Playlist. It seems like I >> could save time by just making a selection and press that shortcut instead >> of click playlist button, choose the playlist that I want to paste to, and >> then paste. >> >> You wrote: I do use nudge mode to essentially accomplish the same thing >> providing I'm moving by bars and beats. >> Question: How do you do that with nudge? Let's say if you split a clip at a >> start of a phrase which happens to be on 5.1.270, and you want to move that >> phrase to the beginning of the bar 5.1.0. If you just select and nudge that >> clip to the left, and your nudge value is one beat, wouldn't it move it to >> 4.4.270? >> Thank you again. >> >> On 10/29/2013 3:30 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: >>> Hi James, >>> >>> I'll try to answer your questions as best as I can for now. >>> >>>>> 1. How can I preview unused clips from the region list? >>> Auditioning clips from the regions list is done by Option-clicking on the >>> clip in the list. You'd have to route the mouse pointer to the file name >>> and perform a physical mouse or track pad click while holding down the >>> Option key. VoiceOver does not currently support modified clicks of this >>> type so it has to be done with the mouse or track pad. >>> >>>>> 2. How can I move an unused clip to a track? Let's say I have 4 bars >>>>> recorded, but I want to bring bar 2 and 3 from previously recorded clip. >>> This is done visually by dragging the clip from the regions list into a >>> track. For obvious reasons, this is quite challenging to a VoiceOver user. >>> It used to be possible to do this relatively easily with the old outSPOKEN >>> screen reader. You can still attempt this with a track pad but I can't >>> guarantee success. If you hide all tracks except for the track to which >>> you'd like to drag the clip and set its display to jumbo or extreme, you >>> can route the mouse pointer to the clip, click and drag the clip to the >>> center of the track pad and let go. You'll need to pay attention to whether >>> you have any regions in the track already because you may inadvertently >>> drop a clip right on top of another. If you include a modifier before the >>> mouse down, you can get different results like snapping to the insertion >>> point or activating the spot dialog where you can specify the location >>> where the clip should go. >>> >>> The alternative is to import the clip to a new audio track , cut the clip >>> and paste it into the desired spot on the track you're working on. >>> >>> I should also point out that, if you're dealing with clips from various >>> takes, it's best to create playlists for each take so that each take is >>> easily accessible. Using the name of the track as the basic playlist works >>> best. For example, create a track named "Vocal" and duplicate it. The >>> resulting track name, and therefore playlist, becomes Vocal01. As you >>> record onto this track, the filenames will start with Vocal.01-01, >>> Vocal.01-02, Vocal.01_03, etc. This is all vocal take one. When you're >>> ready for take two, create a new playlist and the track name will >>> automatically be Vocal.02 and the filenames will all be .02_01, .02_02, >>> .02_03, etc. In the end, copy the best take into the original playlist >>> named "Vocal" and then use bits of whichever take is best for any given >>> line, phrase, word, etc. If you make a selection in the master "Vocal" >>> playlist, you can audition the various takes and the transport will just >>> play the selected area. When you find the take that sounds best, copy, then >>> move to the master playlist and paste. >>> >>>>> 3. Also, is there a shortcut to nudge a selected clip to a closest grid >>>>> without cutting and pasting? >>> I never use Grid mode so I can't comment. I do use nudge mode to >>> essentially accomplish the same thing providing I'm moving by bars and >>> beats. >>> >>>>> 4. Let's say I have clip A on bar 1 and clip B on bar 2, and both are 1 >>>>> bar long. I accidentally nudged Clip A to bar 2, so they overlap exactly >>>>> on the same spot. Then how can I choose clip A or clip B? >>> If the two clips are exactly the same length and you've nudged one on top >>> of another, it's not possible to select the one beneath, at least as far as >>> I can tell. Now, that may be different in version 11 and I don't know off >>> the top of my head. I won't be able to check that for another day or so. >>> >>> Of course, there's always Undo if it happens by mistake and you catch it >>> quickly enough. As I mentioned earlier, the key is to keep multiple >>> playlists to have the flexibility to grab clips as needed. >>> >>> One more thing I should mention since you inquired about working with clips >>> with shortcuts rather than numeric keypad, you can move to and select >>> entire clips by using Control-tab or Control-Option-tab. Be aware that, for >>> the latter, you have to perform the keystroke twice because >>> Control-Option-Tab is the command to pass through a keystroke. The >>> shortcuts for navigating regions is in the keyboard shortcuts pdf file that >>> comes with Pro Tools. >>> >>> Hope that helps, >>> >>> Slau >>> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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