Adjust Session Start Time Issues

[anders]

Does anyone know a workaround when PT will not allow one to "maintain timecode" when changing session start time?

Dialog box pops up saying 'unable to maintain orig t.c. yada yada'. There are no regions, automation, alt playlists anywhere before start time I'm changing to. I seem to remember in the past finding the solution to this problem, but perhaps have forgotten it.

thanks

[Richard Fairbanks]

You must be trying to change the session start time to a later point. If there is ANYTHING existing before that later point, even one automation mark, Pro Tools will not allow you to ignore it. If your session is supposed to be blank, just select all tracks and mark from the session beginning to infinity and hit delete. That always works for me.

[roheap]

After faffing with this for a while recently, I found that midi tracks can cause this function to not work - deleting them solved the problem immediately.

Hope this helps,

Ro

[Vedat]

There's always something in the session you are not aware of that causes this message to appear.

[Peter Baird]

Originally Posted by Vedat

There's always something in the session you are not aware of that causes this message to appear.

Just discovered another one: Memory Location Slots. I killed all of those before the new start time and everything worked.

Peter

[JKD99]

Another way to adjust the session start (effectively) is to pick a point, like the 2-pop, and under the Setup menu select "Current timecode location" and you can redefine that TC to be whatever you want.

Hope that helps!

Joe

[Peter Baird]

And remember to check for tracks you've hidden. Doh!

[Peter Baird]

I suppose I should give the "why" on this just in case someone has a better idea. I'm going song by song through a musical, and I have the complete track set from two performances somewhat synced together on the timeline (which means the total track count is somewhere north of 120). With the whole session on the timeline, unless it's the first song in the show, the auto-tune buffer overloads instantly if I use host timing. I did a few of the songs using internal timing, but that became a nightmare as I started to deal with the changes and comments from the producers.

Hence the need to push the session start forward to near the song start--the Antares buffer doesn't overload if it doesn't see potential hours of time before I want to track pitch on something. Since I'm routinely hiding tracks from the unused performance (they're there to grab fixes on clams and RF hits) I sometimes forget they're even in the session.

So, to recap: show all tracks, delete everything before the new start point, delete any memory locations that may be before the new start point, delete any midi info before the new start point, throw salt over your shoulder and hope.

Peter