Poll - does anyone use "block" mode anymore?

[Danny Caccavo]

Just checking. Would anyone miss it, and if so, why?

Danny Caccavo
Product Manager
Digidesign

[John_Toolbox]

I do when I'm working with video, because I have a crappy video card. PT can't keep up in a large multitrack session if it has to playback the video and draw all of those waveforms. But I'm running 5.1.3 on a 10 year old computer. I wouldn't think that people with modern video cards would have this problem, but I guess I could be wrong.

But really, other than taking a little load off your video card, I can't see any other advantage to using it. So it's really just bestegial at this point because you can't put the newest version of PT on a G4 anyways.

[John_Toolbox]

Woah! 12/31/69? You've been on this forum longer than I've been alive!

[Brandonx1]

Just checking. Would anyone miss it, and if so, why?

Danny Caccavo
Product Manager
Digidesign

Hi danny. The only track block mode is useful for is the video track. Even with the new way tools draws video frames in that track, my computer is still a little slower with frame mode on. I use continuous scrolling. That might be why. I could care less about block mode on audio tracks.
Best
brandon

[Craig F]

what do we get in exchange?

[Shawn Simpson]

I only use it on audio tracks when I'm playing a joke on somebody...I sometimes switch a colleague's view to all blocks when he's not looking. Great fun ensues.

Other than that, I never use it on audio tracks. I do use it on video tracks usually though.

[michael c]

We still use it on the video track.....

[Dizzi45Z]

I was just wondering this myself. Being a newer user to Pro Tools, I just find the block mode annoying. Especially when some of your tracks are using elastic time and others aren't. For some reason, a few of my tracks always end up being in block mode (I always use the hotkey, cntrl-option-command left and right to switch the views of everything together). I would love the option to be able to disable block mode for audio tracks.

[EvilElfBoy]

I have never used it....

But since we are on the topic of regions, can you make a new color pallete? Some of those colors are just totally unusable on regions, maybe even black region with white wave, and vice versa?

Just an idea.

[RobMacki]

I use it for video.