Selecting more than one track
Hi, I have just listened to Kevin's tutorial on ProTools. He talks about selecting tracks. I am finding it a bit of a challenge. I am in the tracks table. I can select one track with VO space, but pressing Shift and semi-colon or Shift and P does not select the next track. Also, Kevin mentions not being able to select consecutive tracks. He mentions being able to do this using a control surface but not with the keyboard. Is there anyway to select - say - track 3, 5 and 7 with the keyboard. It's a shame that PT haven't built it into the control click menu for the track. It would be so easy to do. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. -- http://www.davideagle.co.uk
Re: Selecting more than one track
Chuck, you respond to every email the same way, and I'd just like to point that, that I've ignored you every time, and my Pro Tools works fine… Alls you gotta do is check the options in the options menu about linking things up, and you're god to go. I just checked the keys myself, and they worked. Not sure if it matters, but in the edit window (may work from the mix window too but not sure), hit f4 to start absolute grid mode or whatever it's called. Hope this helps. Take care, Chris Norman Email and MSN: chris.norm...@googlemail.com Feel free to follow my music, either by following @cnproject on Twitter (www.twitter.com/cnproject), or by liking my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/thechrisnormanproject. On 16 Mar 2012, at 14:29, CHUCK REICHEL wrote: Hi David, After you move the tracks table 30% or so to the right in the mix window you can command click with the mouse! on the tracks you want to select. Some one on the list had a way to do this without sighted assistance! Please Chime in? Check options menu for other track selections. Check both track selection options. YMMV :) CHUCK REICHEL 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com In GOD I Trust On Mar 16, 2012, at 9:46 AM, David Eagle wrote: Hi, I have just listened to Kevin's tutorial on ProTools. He talks about selecting tracks. I am finding it a bit of a challenge. I am in the tracks table. I can select one track with VO space, but pressing Shift and semi-colon or Shift and P does not select the next track. Also, Kevin mentions not being able to select consecutive tracks. He mentions being able to do this using a control surface but not with the keyboard. Is there anyway to select - say - track 3, 5 and 7 with the keyboard. It's a shame that PT haven't built it into the control click menu for the track. It would be so easy to do. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. -- http://www.davideagle.co.uk
Re: Selecting more than one track
Hi David, If you want to select non-adjacent tracks without a control surface, perhaps the easiest way is to hide the tracks between the ones you wish to select. Be aware that the meer act of bringing up the contextual menu to hide the track will at the same time select it. regardless, when you've hidden the tracks you don't want to select, use the Control-p or Control-semicolon commands to move to the first track you want in your selection group and then use Control-Shift-semicolon to extend the track selection into the rest of the tracks. The selection will skip any hidden tracks. In the Tracks Table, check to make sure your selection is correct and then you might want to group the tracks. Once you've done this, whenever one of the tracks in that group is selected, the insertion cursor will run through all of the tracks in the group regardless of whether any tracks in between are hidden or not. Hope that helps. slau
Re: Selecting more than one track
Is it then possible to get them tracks out of the group? Cheers, Take care, Chris Norman Email and MSN: chris.norm...@googlemail.com Feel free to follow my music, either by following @cnproject on Twitter (www.twitter.com/cnproject), or by liking my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/thechrisnormanproject. On 16 Mar 2012, at 15:59, Slau Halatyn wrote: Hi David, If you want to select non-adjacent tracks without a control surface, perhaps the easiest way is to hide the tracks between the ones you wish to select. Be aware that the meer act of bringing up the contextual menu to hide the track will at the same time select it. regardless, when you've hidden the tracks you don't want to select, use the Control-p or Control-semicolon commands to move to the first track you want in your selection group and then use Control-Shift-semicolon to extend the track selection into the rest of the tracks. The selection will skip any hidden tracks. In the Tracks Table, check to make sure your selection is correct and then you might want to group the tracks. Once you've done this, whenever one of the tracks in that group is selected, the insertion cursor will run through all of the tracks in the group regardless of whether any tracks in between are hidden or not. Hope that helps. slau
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Re: Selecting more than one track
Actually, it is quite practical. Any tracks that need to be selected for editing are worth grouping, after which, one doesn't have to go through the process of reselecting tracks and can enable or disable with keystrokes alone. Further, it's possible to additionally hide or show the tracks with the same keystrokes—yet another way of working in Pro Tools. Slau On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Sonar Switcher wrote: david, I had the same problem and Chuck was the one to get it to work. I understand Slau's idea but it's not very practical if you have to move fast. I can have 40 tracks loaded and thanks to Chuck select any of them in seconds for example track 1-6-10-20-36 can be selected while leaving the others untouched without hiding, grouping etc. Use an actual mouse, go to the track table, interact with it, click the mouse or VO spacebar on the first track then just move through the table and command click the actual mouse on each track you want to select. The biggest prob I had at the beginning was not understanding you need a mouse and not VO spacebar for this. Chuck, the answer to not needing sighted help for the gray bar is to use the VO resize window command until you are sure the mouse is always where you need it to be. In my case I've had to resize different ways for different sessions because of too many tracks. Usually I get it in 2 or three tries of resizing. You also need the true mouse to do other things like solo safe and general commands that won't work with VO and mouse modifier keys. David Eagle wrote: Hi, I have just listened to Kevin's tutorial on ProTools. He talks about selecting tracks. I am finding it a bit of a challenge. I am in the tracks table. I can select one track with VO space, but pressing Shift and semi-colon or Shift and P does not select the next track. Also, Kevin mentions not being able to select consecutive tracks. He mentions being able to do this using a control surface but not with the keyboard. Is there anyway to select - say - track 3, 5 and 7 with the keyboard. It's a shame that PT haven't built it into the control click menu for the track. It would be so easy to do. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. -- http://www.davideagle.co.uk
Re: Selecting more than one track
Hi Sonar, After working with different producers on sessions the length of the track name seems to be a factor also. In other words the shorter the track name the less the Track List Table has to be moved. I came up with 30% to the right about 2 years ago and it works even for my long winded track names! :) I half to try that VO resize window command and see if it works for me! Thats 1 of the reasons I work from templates. When the clock is ticking there is no time for guesswork! LOL Since 2001 when I started using PT 5.1 resizing windows was a NO NO because my Outspoken go to marks would get messed up! ;) Thats probably why I didn't try that. YMMV again GUFFAWING :) CHUCK REICHEL 954-742-0019 www.SoundPictureRecording.com In GOD I Trust On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:39 PM, Sonar Switcher wrote: david, I had the same problem and Chuck was the one to get it to work. I understand Slau's idea but it's not very practical if you have to move fast. I can have 40 tracks loaded and thanks to Chuck select any of them in seconds for example track 1-6-10-20-36 can be selected while leaving the others untouched without hiding, grouping etc. Use an actual mouse, go to the track table, interact with it, click the mouse or VO spacebar on the first track then just move through the table and command click the actual mouse on each track you want to select. The biggest prob I had at the beginning was not understanding you need a mouse and not VO spacebar for this. Chuck, the answer to not needing sighted help for the gray bar is to use the VO resize window command until you are sure the mouse is always where you need it to be. In my case I've had to resize different ways for different sessions because of too many tracks. Usually I get it in 2 or three tries of resizing. You also need the true mouse to do other things like solo safe and general commands that won't work with VO and mouse modifier keys. David Eagle wrote: Hi, I have just listened to Kevin's tutorial on ProTools. He talks about selecting tracks. I am finding it a bit of a challenge. I am in the tracks table. I can select one track with VO space, but pressing Shift and semi-colon or Shift and P does not select the next track. Also, Kevin mentions not being able to select consecutive tracks. He mentions being able to do this using a control surface but not with the keyboard. Is there anyway to select - say - track 3, 5 and 7 with the keyboard. It's a shame that PT haven't built it into the control click menu for the track. It would be so easy to do. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. -- http://www.davideagle.co.uk
