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Originally Posted by a_mendritzki
Wow. . .
So I know about the annoyingness of PT pasting your automation data to the entire timeline, when using "write automation to selection" if you start playback WITHOUT first selecting the region you want to effect. But is there another automation technique to accomplish this, if that's what you're really after?
What I mean is, 80% of the time I will need to stop, preview a section, find my automation (EQ etc.) and then I can make sure to have properly selected what I want and do my manually-write-automation-to-selection and its fine. But sometimes, especially for long, static sections (Ambience eqs, for example), it would be great to be able to do them 'on the fly', without having to stop, select, and then paste and write.
Is there no way to force PT to paste that automation data onto the selection only, and not the whole bloody timeline?
thanks
On 10HD still btw
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Here's my way to copy paste single track automation or whole blocks of automation without even using copy/past or stopping playback. More or less the same idea that Philip posted but without turning timeline/edit selection-linking on and off all the time.
It work very well for B/Gs when your settings are mostly static during track-laying.
1) Zoom your time-line out so you can see the elements that you want to copy from and the section you want to paste to.
2) Click your cursor into the section with the source scene and hit play.
3) While PT is playing that scene quickly select across the target segment. Only the tracks you want to paste to (while PT is still playing the other scene)
4) Hit command-alt-/
Result: since PT is still "reading" the automation from the source scene by hitting command-alt-/ you are essentially writing that automation to your selection. Same as doing to copy/paste must much faster and lets you stay in the flow.
Note that this only works if the target segment is on the same tracks as the source. Also note that depending on the length of the source scene you have to be quick and make sure that PT is still playing over the section you want to "copy" when you hit command-alt-/ otherwise you will flatten your target section with wrong automation. To avoid this you can put PT in loop playback so it loops around the source segment till you have "pasted".
The other thing I do is jump to the source scene. Suspend automation. Goto target section. command-alt-/. Un-suspend automation. Also pretty fast when you have a soft-key on a controller.
BTW: When using the preview and write to selection combo I don't stop before making the selection. I make the selection while still playing, tweak with preview on. THEN I stop and write to selection to force PT to recognize the selection made. Also GuardianAngel is always running in B/G to save me from fatal mistakes and to click away the nag-screens.