Deleted plug in automation on the whole channel - WHY??? - please help!

[lynx lynx]

Hi! I am just mixing dialogue for a feature film, I have Waves Q10 and Waves Deesser on each channel. I make a loop (sometimes not) enable write automation, and then I do all the stuff with plugins, sometimes I even load my saved presets when in write mode. Then I return to read automation, and it works very well.

But what happened now is - I already made the first 20 minutes of dialogue and found a nice EQ for boom on the 20th minute, i saved a preset and went to try it in some scenes in the beginning of the movie, on the same channel. I did everything as usual, maybe I pressed "Setup B" button on Q10 (Waves). What happened is - all the automation on Q10 from that point onward was set to that preset, and all the automation that I was doing for the whole day (on that channel) was deleted!

I recovered my channel from the Session File Backups luckily, however, next week I am moving to the big dubbing stage where I will continue tweeking with Q10 and other plugins and I don't want that to happen again. Does anybody know something about this, can somebody help? Maybe I did something wrong or is it a bug? I have a bit older system Mac osX 10.5.8. and PT7 LE 7.3, toolkit2. Tnx,

Martin
Sound Designer

[joachim]

Maybe this thread helps : http://duc.avid.com/showthread.php?t=245754

It is about the nonsense, that when "writing-to-all-enabled with no selction made" the automation is written to the entire timeline for the track.
Maybe, you hit "write frome here to end".

[lynx lynx]

Tnx. How could I hit "write frome here to end"? Is there a shortcut? I messed with this on some TDM systems several years ago and it was scary, I even didn't know this exsists on LE. Where is this option? What is the best protection against this? To be in loop??? To check everything after each write pass?

[joachim]

I do not think there is a shortcut, it is a button in the automation window.
Whenever I do "write-to-all" I take a deep breath before, check that I have made a selection and that I hit the button "write to selection".

[lynx lynx]

I don't see that button. I have PT 7.3 LE with DV toolkit 2. I only have suspend, and write enable - volume, pan, mute... I know I've played with that on PT TDM but I cant't see that in PT 7.3? How could I erase automation without that button?

[jasonthurley]

So then just duplicate the track excluding the audio file and drag your audio files into the new tracks... whallla..... automation is the same on all tracks...