Every so often I encounter things in Pro Tools that seem like second nature for me to deal with and it occasionally occurs to me that it may help some others who might not have thought of a particular workaround or solution under the same conditions or the same situation.
I often find myself using the Item Chooser to find specific things in a session. When dealing with larger sessions, the Item Chooser can get pretty lengthy and it might take VoiceOver a few seconds to compile everything. It certainly helps to hide unused tracks to narrow things down a bit whenever possible. Limiting what is being displayed in the Mix window is straightforward. The Edit window, on the other hand can be deceiving. You can hide absolutely all of the tracks and yet VoiceOver can still see a ton of items. The culprit in this case is usually the Clip List. In fact, if you're dealing with 30 or 40 tracks that have many edits and clips, the Clip List can become extremely lengthy. I sometimes work on musical cast recordings that feature more than 20 vocalists plus instruments with anywhere from 25 to 45 songs with multiple playlists. It's not uncommon for my Clip List to contain many thousands of items. When bringing up the Item Chooser, it can take upwards of 10 seconds to compile the Item Chooser list. The solution is simple: just hide the clips List. Unless, of course, you're intending to work with clips in the Clips List to delete or compact or whatever, hiding the clips list can dramatically reduce the number of items in the Item Chooser List and greatly speed up the process of compiling that list. Hope that helps someone. 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.
