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In this movie, you will learn some ways to manage the tracks in your edit window. Let's say, I consider the vocal tracks more important than the guitar tracks or the percussion tracks. I can rearrange these. If I grab by the name, I can move and look at that, see that appear right there, that's telling me that I can move this track to this new position when I let go. Do the same thing with vocs2, I can drag it between vocs1 and the guitar. If I want I could drag the tambourine up here and so forth. If we move to the bottom, it's a little bit trickier. You kind of have to be right there. It's hard to see it changed but it does change. If I were in the mix window which I can get to by Command+= or Control+= on the keyboard, I can do the same thing. Command or Control+= gets me back to the edit window and if for some reason if I decided I didn't want to add a second vocal or no tambourine, I could select the vocal track here and the tambourine by holding the Shift key and clicking on that select both items, go the file menu and choose delete selected tracks. Notice there is no keyboard equivalent predefined. Tracks move together in my mix window as well. What if I wanted to see more detail about this guitar track right here. I could go down here to this area right here, see this little measurement ruler. If I hold down my mouse button right there, I get a little pop-up menu. It's kind of tricky because there is no indicated that there is a pop-up menu there. This is pretty much par for the course of Pro Tools. There are many hidden goodies like this where they kind of break interface guidelines but not giving when obvious indication that there is a hidden menu here. But I could choose to make this track very, very small. I could choose to make it extremely large and if for some reason I realize I want to be able to see more of this, I could temporarily hide this track by clicking on its entry here in the show-hide bin. That's still doesn't let me see both waveforms at this particular screen resolution, so let's go back a little bit and bring the vocs back and get rid of the guitar. Now I can make him larger. Way too big, there we go. If I were working on a very large session with many, many tracks, I go ahead and add some here. Let's say I wanted to add 20 more mono tracks. Look at that, there's a lot of them there. It would be pretty tedious to have to go through and choose small and small. See I am having a hard time even selecting it there. Well, if I hold the option key and do the same thing, at least on the Macintosh of course if I were on a pc, I have to hold the Alt key, it forces all of the tracks to whatever height I am choosing. Let's go and bring our guitar back and you will see he changed too. It doesn't matter if I have only one of them selected or all of them selected. They all follow suit and if I want to delete all these additional tracks rather than having to go through and go like this and select all these guys, I just hold the option key on my Mac keyboard or the Alt key on the pc and click on any of them to select all of them and then hold the Shift key and unselect or deselect the two I want to keep and now I can go to the file menu and choose delete selected tracks. I will make these guys larger. Remember I used the option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the pc to do that resize where they all follow with the one that I am selecting. Here's a little feature that can help in some cases. Selecting this guitar track which is a stereo track going to the file menu, choosing split selected tracks into mono. Now I have a better granular control over the left versus the right channels because each of these original recordings, the left and the right, are now occupying their own tracks in the edit window. So whereas before, I could only select both at the same time, now I can select one or the other, make edits and so forth. And if I didn't want that, I could just delete those tracks because they are currently selected. I can even duplicate a track. If I select vocs1, go the file menu and choose duplicate selected tracks or on the Mac I type option+Shift+D or on the pc, it would be Alt+Shift+D. I can create a second copy of this called duplicate1. Notice however, it is still using the same audio file on the disk which is vocs1_01. So it didn't create a new audio file, it just created a spare track copy still using that same audio file. You could use this to create a quick and dirty delay effect. If I move this over a little bit, pan one to the left, pan the other to the right, now it sounds like this. And if I didn't want this duplicate track to contribute sound anymore, I could either mute it by clicking the M here or while its name was selected, I could go to the file menu and choose make selected tracks inactive. Now it no longer contributes. And since it's now inactive, it doesn't suck any CPU cycles from our processor.
Course: | Digidesign Pro Tools LE 6 |
Author: | Nathan Dickson |
SKU: | 33599 |
ISBN: | 1-932808-46-9 |
Release Date: | 2005-02-25 |
Duration: | 9 hrs / 101 lessons |
Work Files: |
Yes |
Captions: | No |
Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |