Avid Pro Audio Community

Avid Pro Audio Community

How to Join & Post  •  Community Terms of Use  •  Help Us Help You

Knowledge Base Search  •  Community Search  •  Learn & Support


Avid Home Page

Go Back   Avid Pro Audio Community > Pro Tools Post Production > Post - Surround - Video

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1  
Old 03-13-2007, 11:27 PM
Starcrash Starcrash is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Marin County, CA
Posts: 801
Default Unsexy feat. request #2 - Import session data & track names

Why doesn't Pro Tools include "Track Name" as an option in the Import Session Data dialog? There are dozens of other exotic things that you can import, including "Comments," why not track names?

Often, we get sessions back from the foley stage and our track names and comments are gone because either they recorded into new tracks or blew away the track names (they constantly rename the tracks so the recorded regions are named accordingly). So, we can either relabel our tracks by hand or import our template and drag the new tracks into the template tracks. Both can be a pain when you are dealing with lots of tracks and thousands of regions.

A great feature in the Import Session Data dialog is the ability to import "Some" of the data and NOT the actual playlists. We use this all the time for I/O labels and such. I like to use it to import just the comments from my template session (not the playlists) and choose my newly recorded tracks as the destination. This is great because it quickly relabels our new tracks with our template comments. Why isn't "Track Name" an option here as well? To be able to import the track names and comments in one fell swoop would be elegant.
__________________
Pascal Garneau | IMDb
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 03-14-2007, 11:22 AM
jeremiahmoore jeremiahmoore is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 517
Default Re: Unsexy feat. request #2 - Import session data & track na

I agree.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 03-18-2007, 09:04 PM
Guy McDude Guy McDude is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: US
Posts: 369
Default Re: Unsexy feat. request #2 - Import session data & track na

Quote:
Why doesn't Pro Tools include "Track Name" as an option in the Import Session Data dialog? There are dozens of other exotic things that you can import, including "Comments," why not track names?

Often, we get sessions back from the foley stage and our track names and comments are gone because either they recorded into new tracks or blew away the track names (they constantly rename the tracks so the recorded regions are named accordingly). So, we can either relabel our tracks by hand or import our template and drag the new tracks into the template tracks. Both can be a pain when you are dealing with lots of tracks and thousands of regions.

A great feature in the Import Session Data dialog is the ability to import "Some" of the data and NOT the actual playlists. We use this all the time for I/O labels and such. I like to use it to import just the comments from my template session (not the playlists) and choose my newly recorded tracks as the destination. This is great because it quickly relabels our new tracks with our template comments. Why isn't "Track Name" an option here as well? To be able to import the track names and comments in one fell swoop would be elegant.

yes, and color coding would be cool as well.
__________________
Best,
Sean

Sean McDonald
Red Medicine Recording LLC
Sofa King Music Services
http://www.seanmcdonald.com
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Feature Request - Import Session Data WITHOUT Audio files markus44uk 003, Mbox 2, Digi 002, original Mbox, Digi 001 (Win) 8 05-22-2010 10:14 PM
Feature Request: Import Session Data... vancalot Pro Tools TDM Systems (Mac) 13 01-05-2008 08:48 AM
Import track color in import session data deardaddy Pro Tools TDM Systems (Mac) 5 06-11-2007 06:35 PM
Feature Request: Import Session Data "time range" JKD99 Post - Surround - Video 5 05-11-2007 09:25 AM
Unsexy feat. request #1 - Export as Text & muted regions Starcrash Post - Surround - Video 3 03-14-2007 12:02 PM


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 03:01 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin, Copyright ©2000 - 2008, Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. Forum Hosted By: URLJet.com