Three Questions related to Comps

[gdgross]

More incessant questions guys, thanks for your patience with me. Getting up to speed but I have a few questions that will help me with my workflow.

1. I usually color my tracks based on instrument for easy visual ID. I have a bunch of drum clips that I inported and made a new playlist and comped a couple of them together. My drum tracks are already colored red, but the imported clips are different colors. Is there a way to set the color of all clips in a track for all playlists?

2. Once editing is done I end up with several clips and cross faded based on notes I've nudged around. Is there a way to create a new clean looking clip from the many clips? In logic this was the "flatten and merge" function.

3. Is here a way to increase the magnitude of a track/clip's waveform display, other than increasing he clip gain? This will be useful to see waveform info but not actually increase he volume of a track or a clip. In logic there was a little button that sort of bumped up the display of the magnitude of every track in the session.

Again, forgive my newbie questins; there is just so much about PT that I have yet to learn.

Thanks!
Geoff

[albee1952]

1-no idea

2-Consolidate(read up as its something you will want to learn about). If you THINK you may want to fuss with the individual clips again, duplicate the Playlist and then consolidate the new playlist(the original will still be available in all its chopped up glory, which is also a good idea before doing much Elastic Audio editing)

3-Learn about the ZOOM buttons(upper left of the EDIT window, near the MODE buttons-GRID, SPOT, SLIP and SHUFFLE...which you also NEED to learn about)

youtube, Groove3 and pro-tools-expert.com are 3 great sources of tutorial videos to get you out of the starting gate

[gdgross]

Thanks! I didn't realize the audio zoom feature kept the track the same size....I assumes that it just enlarged the track. Super helpful, thanks.

And yeah, I'll always copy to a new playlist before consolidating. Hard drive space is cheap

Will look for a way to re-color clips, or have them follow the track color all the time.

ThankS!


Geoff

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by gdgross

Will look for a way to re-color clips, or have them follow the track color all the time.

ThankS!


Geoff

Share this if you get it sorted. I've been scratching me head for years.

[YYR123]

Prefs? It says something in there about track color and changing, or remaining the same or something in there take a look

[gdgross]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Share this if you get it sorted. I've been scratching me head for years.

Well, recoloring clips is relatively straightforward - just open the color palette window, click on your clip(s) and click a new color.

Originally Posted by YYR123

Prefs? It says something in there about track color and changing, or remaining the same or something in there take a look

This is the harder part. there's few settings like "clips follow the track color", etc. Which they do when you import a clip and drop it onto a track. It's when you record multiple takes/playlists and then comp into one that they take on different colors.

Not a huge deal, more of an annoyance than anything.

Thanks!

[YYR123]

Originally Posted by gdgross

. It's when you record multiple takes/playlists and then comp into one that they take on different colors.

Select all clips, CMD F and then CMD shift #3 consolidate and wha-la

[mesaone]

The color palette has a menu that will color clips according to the parent track color, I believe. On the top left, "Clips in Tracks"