Pro Tools 11 on mac not showing waveforms

[digitaltracks]

Hey,
for some reason when i import audio into pro tools 11 on mac the audio waveform is not showing,
the audio file is still there and playing you just can't see the waveform,
anyone have any idea why?

[digitaltracks]

its ok i think i worked this one out,
i was adding the file to the session rather than copying it.
when i copy it the waveform shows up fine.

[joachim]

Originally Posted by digitaltracks

Hey,
for some reason when i import audio into pro tools 11 on mac the audio waveform is not showing,
the audio file is still there and playing you just can't see the waveform,
anyone have any idea why?

Track View set to "Blocks" ?

Originally Posted by digitaltracks

its ok i think i worked this one out,
i was adding the file to the session rather than copying it.
when i copy it the waveform shows up fine.

"Add" or "Copy" does not have anything to do with showing waveforms or not.

Did you try "recalculate waveform" ?

[digitaltracks]

Track view is set to "Waveform",
and i tried recalculate "Waveform" & thats not working either.
still no luck

[digitaltracks]

Ok,
so i tried with some different files & everything worked fine,

possibly just bad files or a bad hard drive.

[DrDub]

Hi

Actually I'm getting a similar problem. If I look in the task menu PT is constantly trying to calculate the waveform overview but never succeeds. Clicking recalculate doesn't help.

PT 11.1.3 on a late 2013 iMac running OSX10.9.2

Any ideas?

[GTBannah]

Me too. It's only a problem if I have to edit the file after I import it. Once, I had to edit in Audacity, then re-import.

[Shifted Music]

I had this happen with the 11.2 version.

I simply had to recalculate waveform overviews from the region bin and all good.

[GTBannah]

Originally Posted by Shifted Music

I had this happen with the 11.2 version.

I simply had to recalculate waveform overviews from the region bin and all good.

.... by that, do you mean, right click on the clip in the regions bin, then select, "Recalculate Waveform Overview"? Still no improvement here.

[conleec]

Yeah, I now have a project in 11.2 where the waveforms no longer draw. It was working fine yesterday in 11.1.3. This is a show-stopper in post.

UPDATE: Ok, I'm super embarrassed, but I did finally notice that all audio tracks were in "block" mode. I'm positive this wasn't the case under 11.1.3. Is it possible this is a new default behavior, or something? In any event, it's all squared away now, but still a head-scratcher about how it got that way.

Chris