In sessions where there are a ton of tracks, I've come up with a workflow that works for me. I often work with large session files where I'm constantly having to move tracks. Apart from the sheer time it takes to navigate down the tracks list with VoiceOver, one of the main concerns is that, once tracks are below the visible scroll area, they are selectable with VoiceOver but dragging doesn't work because the mouse pointer doesn't click in the right spot as the tracks are off-screen. One aspect of the tracks list table that works in our favor is that, when multiple tracks are selected and one of those tracks is moved, all of the selected tracks end up in a continuous list together with the track that was dragged. Thus, if you have tracks that are at the bottom of a list of a hundred tracks, you can select the tracks you wish to move, then navigate to the top of the tracks table, select one of the top tracks and drag it one notch up. The selected tracks from the bottom of the list instantly pop up toward the top of the list, right underneath the track that was just dragged. Dragging tracks to the bottom of the list is easier, only because when you drag from the top down, the window scrolls as soon as the dragging mouse reaches the bottom of the scroll area.
Dragging tracks to the middle of a list of a hundred tracks is a little trickier. In that case, you'll need to do it within the mixer area itself. Let's say you wanted to drag tracks 90 to 99 to reside in front of track 49. It's easiest to do this by showing tracks 48 and 49 and tracks 90 through 99. With tracks 90 through 99 selected, interact with the channel strip of track 90 and move down to the track name. Issue a mouse-down command and stop interacting with the track. Navigate to Track 48 and mouse up. The tracks should now jump in front of track 49. This assumes you have your mouse pointer following the voiceOver cursor. I demoed this method on the Roger group some months ago but I'm not sure if anybody archived it. I can gladly record an mp3 of the process if anybody is interested. Hope that helps a bit. Slau P.S. Yeah, that missing files dialog isn't fun. Luckily, I rarely encounter it but, when it comes up, it's kind of a drag, so to speak. > On Feb 2, 2017, at 7:46 PM, 'Hi' via Pro Tools Accessibility > <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Martin, yes, don't bother downloading those because it's nearly impossible to > get the loops working correctly for the patches. Furthermore, I would say > more than 50% were not working at all in Structure 2.0. Yes Slau, that's > exactly what you said but I misinterpreted it thinking that Structure now had > TFX presets we could copy. On a completely different note is there any way of > addressing moving tracks with FT? Every session I have proves to be a > nightmare for moving tracks. They all are 100 plus tracks and VO is never > where it should be. Fortunately I work with engineers who can move things in > a flash for me and that takes care of the rest of the project for mixing but > I would love to be more independent with such an easy task. Another rather > daunting issue is linking missing files. Fortunately most people on this list > don't have to deal with that but we get lots of projects with hundreds of > tracks on different drives that need to be manually linked. I've gotten > pretty quick at it but not as fast as someone looking at the screen. > > -- > 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.
