Hi Scott, agreed! Since 2001, starting with pt 5.1, I always only have the tracks showing I'm working on just to be safe! :) When you group your tracks and use memory locates its a breeze! :) YMMV Chuck
On Apr 13, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > Hey Joe, > > Yeah, I can imagine there'd a knack to it with that many tracks > showing. So far I've been using it in combination with being judicious > about what I've got showing and it seems to work well enough as a > quick fix. > > Scott > > On 4/13/15, 'Hi' via Pro Tools Accessibility <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> > wrote: >> The big problem is that this is not a 100% fix. It's dependent on where >> the screen is scrolled as you're using page up or down. For example, in >> a session with more than 100 tracks you don't know how many times to >> press page down in order to rout the mouse let's say to the I/O field. >> So, if you want to use the modifier keys with the mouse to do something >> with tracks 60, 61 and 62 you would select those 3 tracks and use option >> shift to change the I/O on those 3 tracks. The problem becomes even with >> scroll in to view as you page down for the screen to match VO you >> wouldn't know how many times to press the page down key and it also >> depends on your track size. I've been using this method since version 9 >> and I've gotten pretty good at doing it by feel but I always end up >> double checking with one of the tracks I'm changing the field on. The >> more unfortunate part is while bank select did work on certain surfaces >> such as the C|24, Control 24 and others through version 11, version 12 >> of PT does not work where the bank select changes VO's view with the >> D-command and D-control. On the D-control you're able to do this on the >> board but again, it's visually using a combo of buttons and the scroll >> wheel so doing this by feel is not so simple. >> >> On 4/12/2015 10:37 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote: >>> One more thing just popped into my head. In the Edit window, the same (or >>> similar) behavior is seen with the tracks in a vertical orientation: at a >>> certain point, there's a group that sometimes appears earlier in the list >>> rather than together with the rest of the tracks in the timeline. the same >>> issue exists here, as far as I can tell. Surely, hiding tracks you don't >>> need is a good way to simplify but sometimes keeping more tracks visible >>> is advantageous. Anyway... >>> >>> I don't remember if I specified in my previous message but, as some folks >>> might already know, VoiceOver sometimes sees things that are concealed >>> visually. This is both an advantage and disadvantage. I became somewhat >>> exasperated with my assistant when she couldn't see something on screen >>> that VoiceOver clearly saw. I insisted it must be there and, in fact, it >>> wasn't, at least not until she clicked on a disclosure triangle and >>> finally saw it. Meanwhile, VoiceOver saw it despite the fact that it was >>> technically hidden because of the collapsed disclosure triangle. Funny... >>> and yet not funny. >>> >>> Slau >>> >>> On Apr 12, 2015, at 8:30 PM, Scott Chesworth <scottcheswo...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Nice one, never thought to try hitting page up. Thanks for the tip! >>>> >>>> Scott >>>> >>>> On 4/12/15, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> For a few years, I've been using the newer versions of Pro Tools but >>>>> only >>>>> began using the latest version at the studio as of this year. Having >>>>> spent >>>>> more time with PT 11 on a day-to-day basis, I've come to notice >>>>> something >>>>> that didn't occur to me earlier. I've never seen mention of it on the >>>>> list >>>>> although the general subject has come up. I have not, however, seen any >>>>> posts offering the following explanation. For what it's worth, here it >>>>> is: >>>>> >>>>> As, I'm sure, many of you have noticed, tracks sometimes appear, for >>>>> lack of >>>>> a better way of saying it, "to the left" of the Tracks List pop-up >>>>> button >>>>> (erroneously labeled, "Show/Hide label.") When interacting with those >>>>> tracks, VoiceOver does see all of the elements and one can certainly >>>>> interact with controls and change input paths, etc. However, when trying >>>>> to >>>>> perform actions that involve routing the mouse pointer and doing a >>>>> modified >>>>> click, things don't work as expected. Actually, they don't work at all. >>>>> The >>>>> reason is that, when the tracks appear to be to the left of that pop-up >>>>> button, they're actually not visible on screen and therefore cannot be >>>>> accessed by the mouse pointer. Scrolling into view has certainly been >>>>> suggested on the list as well as showing only the tracks in question. >>>>> That's >>>>> all good but an alternative is to simply page up or, even quicker, use >>>>> the >>>>> bank select on a control surface to expose the left-most tracks or, >>>>> conversely, the right-most bank if that's what you need. >>>>> >>>>> This is one of those things that has come up on the list a few times >>>>> but >>>>> I've never seen this particular observation. Regardless, putting it out >>>>> there. >>>>> >>>>> 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/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/d/optout. >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > -- > 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/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. 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