Eliminating variables is good practice when troubleshooting issues with any situation. One overarching truth when editing in Pro Tools is that the way we edit anything as VoiceOver users is through the edit insertion point and keyboard shortcuts. Hiding all other tracks when editing is certainly not necessary but, if one is having any issues, it's not a bad idea to isolate things, hide all tracks and show only the track you're working on. Make sure it's the only track that's selected. Be aware that, in a large session, you might have your track selected and, even though it doesn't immediately appear so, there may be a track all the way down the list, perhaps track 29 or 30, that could be selected. You want to make sure that's not the case. One global shortcut that's right at the beginning of the shortcuts pdf is one that many users simply overlook and yet it's one of the most powerful shortcuts and that is the Option-click. This will change the state of a control and toggle all other similar tracks to the same state. So, if you want to ensure that no other tracks are selected without even having to check, move to any selected track in the table and Option-click the track name (not the show/hide status). The track will become deselected. Then just click once on the track name again, without the Option key this time, and it'll be the only track selected. If you want to verify that your process is working, move to an unselected track and Option-click it. Now you should see all of the tracks selected. Option-click again and you'll see that all of the tracks are deselected. Keeping this global shortcut in mind will help in situations where you need to be absolutely sure that no tracks are muted. Move to a mute button and Option-click it twice. the first time will mute all tracks, the second time will unmute all tracks. HTH, Slau
On Jan 17, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh wow! I'd totally forgotten about ctrl+P and semicolon. Ever since V11, > where you could toggle tracks on and off of being selected with VO+Space, I > guess I kind a just got in the habbit of throwing those commands out the > window. Probably not a smart move on my part, huh. > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Slau Halatyn > To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com > Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 12:37 PM > Subject: Re: Comping issue seems to be resolved > > Another solution, in this case, is to scrub or shuttle within the track once > to establish an insertion cursor. Your edits are guaranteed to work if > there's an insertion within the track. Having Track Selection follow Edit > Selection doesn't guarantee the creation or movement of an insertion point, > although it generally works. Hearing is believing. Scrub or shuttle, hear the > audio and you can cut and paste all you want. If you're copying to another > track, use control-semicolon or control-p to move that insertion point to the > adjacent track. > Slau > > On Jan 17, 2016, at 11:54 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland > <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Kevin might can explain better than I could what was going on, as we worked >> together and figured things out. Thank you again, by the way for that. >> >> Basically, just to recap, I was having issues where I tried selecting audio, >> then copying it to the clipboard for pasting to another playlist on the same >> track. Essentially, I was trying to comp together a vocal track. >> >> The problem was that when I'd move to my final master playlist and would try >> pasting the audio I'd just copied, nothing was happening. I'd confirmed >> that in the track list table, my vocal audio track was selected, and it was. >> Also in the edit window, I confirmed my selecter tool was selected, and it >> was. I wasn't apparently doing a single thing wrong. It just wasn't >> working. >> >> Turns out, why the heck I didn't think to do this is beyond me, but Kevin >> suggested that I deselect the track in the track list table by interacting >> with the track list table, finding the track, then vo+spacing on it to >> deselect, then select a different track, deselect that other track, then go >> back again and reselect the vocal track. Then! Try copying, and finally >> pasting in that other playlist. What can I say. Kevin? You've done it >> again! Amazing! that worked! Apparently, even though the vocal track was >> selected in the track list table, for some really really weird reason, the >> audio itself wasn't getting selected, so no audio was in escence, being >> copied to the clipboard to start with. I thought this was a Voiceover >> problem, but apparently, Kevin said it's not so. I'm still slightly >> confused then what on earth caused this. He tried explaining, and I kind of >> get it, but not really. >> >> Anyway, my point is, if you find that you're having issues with editting >> tracks, take his suggestion. deselect and reselect the tracks, then do your >> edit, and see if that helps. You just might be very surprised. >> >> Chris. >> >> -- >> 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.
