Pencil tools

[307]

Hi
I'm using a 2.4g cup , 1 G ram pc with the protools LE but I can't use the pencil tools , did anyone knows whats happening?
Thanks a lot

[Rail Jon Rogut]

You can only use the pencil tool when you're zoomed in pretty far..

Note that the pencil tool is destructive,.. If you want to draw a change you may want to first consolidate around the aea first.

Rail

[307]

Dear rail
I have try zoom in , zoom out all the way but still can't use the pencil tools .
Thanks
Dennis

[vocalvoodoo]

Pencil is "NOT" destructive. I have used it many times an then hit "undo" because I didn't like the result. Maybe there is an option somewhere to make it non or destructive. Hmmmmm

[vocalvoodoo]

Try searching the "answerbase" 307. I just looked in Pro Tools to see if there was an option to turn pencil on or off and there isn't. As far as I know it should just work. You have to be really far in (to where the wave form is just a wavy line) and then click the pencil buttin then click and drag on the wave form to pencil edit it. Good luck:)

[Bastiaan]

If you are using the pencil it is indeed destructable. But you still have your undo's. But this is one of the actions in protools that actually happens to the original file, unlike stuff like crossfading, chopping off some stuff, audiosuite etc.

[da BaSsTaRd!]

Originally posted by vocalvoodoo:
Pencil is "NOT" destructive. I have used it many times an then hit "undo" because I didn't like the result. Maybe there is an option somewhere to make it non or destructive. Hmmmmm

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">hehehe... see what happens after you save... [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

[Henning Z. Mortensen]

Originally posted by 307:
Hi
I'm using a 2.4g cup , 1 G ram pc with the protools LE but I can't use the pencil tools , did anyone knows whats happening?
Thanks a lot

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Set the Paging File Initial Size to 1065 or lower in Virtual Memory. 1024 is the recommended value.

To set this, go to:
SystemProperties>Advanced>Performance>Settings>Adv anced>Virtual Memory>Change

Or remove some of your RAM, so you have less than 1GB
I changed my paging file min and max to 1024, and it worked (on a TDM system)

[mlemos]

If you have too much memory you can't use the pencil tool? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

[Henning Z. Mortensen]

Originally posted by mlemos:
If you have too much memory you can't use the pencil tool? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">From Digi's answerbase:

"Regardless of my zoom level or session length, I have lost the functionality of my Pencil Tool.

This error was seen in systems containing 1GB RAM. Reducing the amount of RAM to 512MB resolved the error. "


Changing the paging file size worked for me. Didn't wanna reduce my amount of RAM. That was the most stupid solution i've ever heard from Digi!