Record-enabling tracks turns automation inactive

[CHD]

I'm 6 years in PT TDM, but only now this feature got me bothered: when I record-enable or even switch to "input only monitoring" an audio track, all its automation playlists become inactive (italic) and automation mode greyed out. I hate this, because I want to be sure that the faders of the tracks to which I record/monitor my mix always stay at set level. I'd like to keep them in READ and AUTO-SAFE, once I've recorded their initial state (unity gain), so that me or the second engineer couldn'ocasionally change its level. But when the auto playlists become disabled, the faders can be easily moved by accident, and when you notice it, it may be too late. The option "Link Record and Play Faders" does nothing to the problem. Does anyone know some way to be sure that your recording/monitoring channels' faders are always at the set level?

[SBP]

We'd also like to be able to record audio and automation at the same time -on the same track. -Seems strange that you can't do it.

[JKD99]

I agree. Sometimes I'll re-record a piece of dialog from one track to another (usually after noise suppression, etc) and it's very time consuming to have to do one pass to record it, and another pass to wipe whatever automation (volume. EQ etc) might have been ON the record track.
I suppose I could be writing zeroe'd automation on the record track as I'm working on the source track, but then that would require me to think ahead, which is something I try to avoid whenever possible

[yogev-sam]

Try to send the Audio track to an Aux track via bus & do the Automation there on the aux track .
in that way you can still record & hear the automation

[JKD99]

Hi Yogev,
Yes, but in my case the idea is to re-record onto another audio track, so that wouldn't work.
Another way is to have dedicated predub tracks to record to, but in situations where there's only a couple instances of re-recording in a given reel, it's a bit wasteful to use up a whole track (or tracks) just for the predub bits.
Basically, these are workarounds- it'd be nice to be able to write automation on a record-enabled track