I've been dividing my time between machines with and without FloTools for over 6 months and have found it easy, largely because of how FloTools feels like a natural augmentation rather than a redefining of PT for me, though I'm sure that will vary from person to person. I'm finding a really useful logic to the FloTools key commands.
It is way down the list of things that cost me time and money when swapping studios unfortunately Sent from my smart-ish phone! > On 7/09/2017, at 4:47 PM, CHUCK REICHEL <soundpicturerecord...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Brian, > For what its worth I and several other PT "pros" don't use flowtools mainly > because when working in other studios they wouldn't even think of letting you > install anything on their studio "work Box". > That would make it a bit sticky "slow" while trying to engineer a session in > a different studio always trying to remember which set of key commands should > I issue to accomplish a pt task. > Time is money! > JMO > > Chuck > "God does not play dice with the universe" > "Albert Einstein’ > > > >> On Sep 7, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Brian@Wavefield Recordings wrote: >> >> Slau, my apologies, I vaguely recall having been told this already, I >> think I have FloTools working as it should in that case. Are you >> sucking it up for want of a better phrase and working off Sierra >> regardless of this VO bug? My main studio machine is still on Yosemite >> and working extremely stable, but it won't allow me let VO be >> controlled by apple scripts for some reason, so I'm still weighing up >> pros and cons of upgrading for FloTools benefits or staying where I am >> for now. That VO bug in Sierra would slow me down quite a bit mixing, >> but FLoTools would speed up tracking sessions especially quite a bit, >> the modified mouse click stuff is making me quite happy right now >> although I'm only just learning the ropes. >> >> On an aside Slau, we spoke off list a while back about the track list >> table showing up to the right/the bottom of the mix window for me an >> other unpredictable behaviour, I'm not sure why this is still >> happening, but I seem to be able to solve it every time by hiding and >> then showing all tracks in the session. I'm no closer to knowing >> exactly why it was happening so consistently, but it could be partly >> down to the fact that a huge number of my projects were based off the >> same session template. >> >> Brian. >> >>> On 9/6/17, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Brian, >>> That's not a Flo Tools issue but a VoiceOver focus issue in Sierra. We've >>> talked about that here a few times but you probably missed the discussion. >>> Apple is aware of the problem and we're still waiting for them to fix it. >>> Yep, it's a hassle to be thrown back to the top of the window each time. >>> Thanks Apple :) >>> Slau >>> >>>> On Sep 6, 2017, at 7:42 AM, Brian@Wavefield Recordings >>>> <br...@wavefieldrecordings.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I had FloTools working fairly well before upgrading to sierra and had >>>> to upgrade for software for my partner to use, anyway I am only using >>>> FloTools on this secondary machine fr the moment for various reasons, >>>> so I didn't make a backup of my system pre upgrade. >>>> >>>> So the main issue I'm having is that voice over jumps to the top of >>>> the mix window after I close menus or plug-in windows I had accessed >>>> with FloTools commands i.e. I open the track output menu on track 16 >>>> of a sessions for example, and after I select a n output VO jumps back >>>> to the top of them window, instead of hanging around track 16. This >>>> didn't happen before I upgraded to Sierra. >>>> >>>> I also seem to be having some other issues with mouse clicks etc, but >>>> haven't really had time to explore those things fully. >>>> >>>> Is there anything I may be missing. >>>> >>>> I have tried reinstalling FLoTools, I am on the latest PT etc. >>>> >>>> All suggestions are welcome, >>>> >>>> Brian. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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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