Trim automation

[cachemira]

Sorry for the question, but after have read the manual three times I don´t understand what means and what it´s used for trim automation.

Any help?

[Gil Parente]

are you sure it is not thin instead of trim...
When you tell Pt to thin the automation, it actually looks at all your break points and deletes some of them. (hopefully the not so necessary ones). It takes a little load of your CPU..

[Gil Parente]

if you're are talking about the trim mode,
what it does is: it creates an offset of any previous written automation. for example, if you have a move on a track, but you realize it had to be the same move, but 5 db lower, that's how you use the trim.... got it??

[RobMacki]

I've never used this feature but it looks like (from reading p.394-396 in 5.1 Ref. Man.)
you can use trim in automation mode in order to create a "snpshot" of the playlist and add the automation to an empty playlist. Could be very useful. Maybe I'll have to try it.

Has anyone used this feature?
Do I get a gold star?
But my question would be:
Why not just duplicate playlist?

[cachemira]

I was talking about "Trim" and I think I´ve got it...

I´ll have to try. Thanks a lot.

[PTUser NYC]

Yes.

Imagine that you had made a complicated series of moves on a vocal. You had lots and lots of points, bringing out a "t" here, ducking a loud vowel there etc. Now, later in the mix, you want the vocal a little louder. What do you do?

TRIM! Move all the points relative to eachother with the trim tool. I do it all the time. Without this feature, I'd be really stuck.

[RobMacki]

I have to totally get this.
I've only used the trim tool to trim regions.
You're saying I can TRIM the automation?

[RobMacki]

I take that back. I HAVE used trim for volume,
to bring up or down selection. Very useful.

[cachemira]

Guys, I think it´s been a mistake with my question.

I was talking about the trim mode automation, not the trim Tool.

It´s when, for example, you put in trim mode (Auto touch or Auto latch trim mode) the volume and the fader becomes yellow. I still don´t konw what is that.

[RobMacki]

Someone on duc must have used this mode and had a reason to do so. If you find out let me know.

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Automation TRIM mode.. only available on TDM Pro Tools systems.. as described.. it's the same as TRIM mode on an SSL console..

Say between point A and point B you have a series of rides which peak at +3dB.. switch to TRIM mode in the automation and the fader turns yellow.. When you touch the fader, that becomes your NULL point... pushing the fader up or down will "trim" any moves relative to how much above or below the NULL point you move the fader. In the example above if you play back the mix and move the fader down 2dB between points A and B - the moves will still play as they were.. but instead of reaching a peak of +3Db, they'll reach a peak of +1dB.

Rail

[cachemira]

Great, that is waht I wanted to know.

I´ll have to buy an SSL to try it there...