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What happen to my Pencil tool
I used to be able to zoom into a dialogue track where I heard a pop or click and redraw a smooth waveform with the pencil tool however that tool doesnt come up. Im unable to redraw the waveform. Am I doing something wrong?
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Re: What happen to my Pencil tool
Does the audio stem from an OMF or AAF?
Try selecting the part you want to draw in, then hit sft + opt + 3 to consolidate, then try drawing again.
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Re: What happen to my Pencil tool
Yes it was from an AAF and consolidating it fixed the issue. I would've never thought of that.
Thanks :)
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Re: What happen to my Pencil tool
It's a pain in the arse issue that has been there for ages...
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Re: What happen to my Pencil tool
I never have this problem with I copy the audio from the OMF on import.
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Re: What happen to my Pencil tool
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Makes perfect sense actually, since "copy" creates new files, as "consolidate" also does.
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Re: What happen to my Pencil tool
I think it's a good habit to consolidate before penciling anyway, as pencil is one of the few destructive edits in PT. It changes the original file without making a copy or denoting it was changed...
In some workflows (like mine where editors do prep just linking to the OMF/AAF media, and we relink their sessions on mix stage) it's critical to consolidate because you might do a pencil fix and then relink to an unfixed file because PT makes no name distinction between the two... \\V
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