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Sibelius can do this -- make the video window with adjustable transparency so that you can see the arrange window beneath it. Would be useful for when you're working on a laptop and screen space is at a premium. Would also be nice if you could click behind the video window without selecting it so that you could edit without disturbing the floating "ghost" window on top.
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I use Pro Tools to both multitrack and create live broadcast mixes at the same time. VCA masters are great but it would be nice to have them work while recording. I know that they work through automation and that gets disabled on audio tracks while in record mode which essentially turns off fader control via the VCAs. Right now I use a lot of convoluted bussing through aux tracks in order to make this work, which is not ideal. It would be great if the VCA's would still work fully while controlling audio tracks in record mode.
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Hi guys, love the software. Would really help if we could name the tracks when we set them up. I.e. when create a new track, the fields would be 1) # tracks to create, 2 ) Mono or Stereo, 3) Type of track [Aux, Audio, Instrument etc...] 4) Sample or Ticks 5) Track Names. If there are multiple tracks to create, give us the option to name ALL new tracks at the create stage, or bypass the naming at this stage. This way when they are created in either mix or edit window, we simply have to rearrange them so the effects are together, voxs together etc... based on our personal layout preference. Also being able to assign a colour at creations stage would also be good. Obviously have these extra fields as optional so we are not "forced" to have to name and color them at setup. This could allow for some increased time efficiency. PLUS if we are setting up a new session and we want to set up a kick, snare, HH, O/heads, toms, cymbols, gtr1, gtr2, bass, Vox1, vox2,vox3, bass, keys1,keys2,aux1,aux2,aux3,masterfaders etc... we can name them as we set up so we don't have to "re-remember" them once they are created as un-named tracks in the edit/mix windows.
Cheers,
Mike
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This one should be easy to implement. It's very annoying for foley editors - who have to rename thousands of files in the edit window - to find this function in the region menu and by mouse only!
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Where I work, we laydown audio tracks to HDCAMSR tape from one ProTools HD system and simultaneously catch stems on a 2nd chasing ProTools HD system and the edits are consistently off by a different amount every time. Usually it's a least 4 frames and some variable amount of samples between 0 and 1500 and the offset is different every single layoff even when no offsets change. This has been happening since before we moved to PT 8. It usually takes 3-4 layoff attempts with different offsets to land an accurate layoff within 100 samples, but we should be able to find some setting that consistently delivers sample-accurate layoffs to HDCAM.
We've had experts in to validate our Sync, tried multiple HDCAM decks that work perfectly with our AVIDs, and tried using Serial Time-Code and LTC, with no improvement. This is super annoying.
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I spend a ton of time cleaning up spurious automation between audio regions.
Many times this is to smooth out instantaneous volume jumps at the start or end of a region. When automation is dense, manual selection is super tedious.
Two suggestions:
1) User selects 1 or more automation pts between two regions and a shortcut key can be invoked to "expand automation selection up to pre-post region boundaries". The "DEL" to clear them if it looks "safe" to do so.
2) Provide a "grow/Shrink" selected automation points hot key function. So that a user can pick a middle automation pt, and manually exand(or shrink)
the selected list of automation points by a point from each end per invocation.
This will help me leave just the points I want in case the automation value I want for a region happens to be defined outside that region.
3) Ability to select a whole track and "Create automation keys" at the region boundaries if there is no key present (+/- some delta of time).
-Jay-
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I work in audio editing, mainly broadcast imaging and commercials, After 9 years of Tools I'm not sure if these already exist? I never picked up a manual.
1. AUDIO SUITE RECORD MODE
So many times in a day I apply the same series of audio suite plug ins to a region. It would be great to write a script by pressing record before applying my chain of plug ins, then exciting record mode and titling it as a setting. Imagine the old reverse suck sfx application at the press of a button rather than >reverse>reverb>reverse.
2. FLOATING AUDIO WINDOW
While in a template loaded with sfx, its a laboring task to drag audio in from my region bank, especially with the size of our apple screens nowadays. I'd like to suggest at the click of a quick key a Floating Window appear at the place of cursor, with shortlisted audio that we access often, ie plane sfx, crowd sfx, clap fx, maybe some zips and zaps.... by double clicking on the file in the floating window the audio drops to where the cursor is.
3. VOICE TRACK EDIT PLUG IN
Along the same lines that Elastic audio read transients in music, would be cool to have an audio suite plug in that detects transient in a voice recording, to that way we can shift select multiple regions and delete, snappping a vo back in line de-breathed. Should be able to tweak the Transient reading sensitivity, how tight you can crop a marker from the transient and a cross fade option.
4. BOUNCE TEMPLATES
In the bounce window to have bounce presets at the top of the window, rather then having to reselect output options, would love to have a 16/44100/wave bounce setting, another for 48, another for mp3 etc. Users should be able to label their settings.. eg CD BURN or HI DEF RADIO .. same with Audio Export.
5. MULTIPLE PASTING
Right now we can cut and paste one region (or set of)... love to be able to cut/copy 3 or 4 peices of audio and paste them when needed. Maybe see point 2 above and have a floating window of the last 5 pasted regions to select from, while the immediate cut region still remains pasted using C
6. OFFLINE BOUNCE
Im only guessing the reason PT cant bounce offline is because of the insert set up and plug ins (?), maybe have a second window, or alternatively maybe call it PRO TOOLS BOUNCE, who knows..... simply a page that allows all the same editing and work flow options that allows us to bounce offline providing the session is free of inserts.
Soo many hours is spent in radio bouncing down 3 hour shows that dont always use inserts, simply raw files sitting in the session, packaging, announcer talk breaks and songs. Surely if Cool Edit (am i showing my age) can do this Digi can, PT needs a little brother.
Okay thats it for now, excuse the essay, and my ignorance if any of these already exist.
Thanks
KCB
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This would save me hours upon hours of zooming in and back out while editing audiobooks. And I know DP does it. Basically, when you create/split regions in a playlist, the region splits are made at the nearest 'zero-crossing' points in the waveform, thus eliminating pops and clicks and the need to go in afterward and move the edit to said zero crossing manually.
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Since PT moved to Leopard (7.4), taking the picture off-line (⇧⌘J) makes it disappear instead of just staying parked. If I wanted to make it disappear, I could could just ⌘9 to hide the video window. It was fine in 7.3.9 and below. This is a hugely important detail in keeping things transparent for clients while I edit in the background, and is the only thing keeping me on Tiger and from upgrading to PT 8.
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Please Don't Get Rid Of The Power Mac Format For Your Protools Updates Cuz I Don't Have $2,500 to Buy A New Mac !!!! Protools Customer Since 2004.
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Either I don't know how to do this, or you can't. I work in post production and set a lot of markers where scenes are, where ADR is required, where sweetening is required, etc. If I conform a session to a new cut the markers stay where they were, making them completely useless. I would like if when you're cutting a project that the markers stay with the audio that's being moved. Or at least the option to do that.
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I was wondering if ProTools will ever have a switch or mode where if you're not using any external processing, if everything is done in the box, will there ever be a mode where rendering is accomplished faster than real time?
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Track icons for visual mixing. Create a web forum with a searchable library for people to upload icon-sized pics of instruments, effects, etc.
Some people will find it too "amateur", so make it selectable.
Here's a screen grab of what I mean:
http://cloudyproject.com/protools-pic.jpg
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Heck, get rid of M-Powered while you're at it, and just have Universal Pro Tools software for goodness sake. You can still have the expensive and cheaper hardware options. But heck, even if the software is the same across the board, a big time studio is probably still going to go for the HD system while the non-big-bucks users will still take LE routes.
Though surely I'm missing some aspects of this that make it not so good an idea.
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I've been a dedicated PT users for almost 10 years. I'm always the first onboard with new releases and have been very patient over the years as the quality of new releases has gone down and the cost of getting things has gone up (almost to absurd) as the idea of ala'cart functionality (read: AIR, mp3 export, etc.) is simply frustrating. Give your customers more features, and better communication channels with your product development teams. Also, stop giving us things we dont ask for (read; eleven) and give us things we are asking for (read: ADC in LE). If you look at how long this site has been up and running, it appears only (2) items have been implemented? To AVID, ProTools is not the only good DAW on the block any more. You really need to take care of your loyal customers before we start jumping ship. Its just getting ridiculous...
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THE STEREO/MULTIPLEMONO OPTION DON´T WORK CORRECTLY. THERE IS CONFLITO WITH THE ARCHIVES WITH LETTERS L R OBLIGANDOTE HAS TO MAKE STEREO ARCHIVES OF ONE MONO.
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Copy fader values to send in PT LE
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1. Folders in the region bin
2. Toolbar with basic Audio Suite Plugs. Gain, Reverse, Pitch, Time Compress...
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I do have a couple of suggestions for design improvements that would help the functionality of the Eleven Rack in regards to editing rig settings :
1. Enable the "save" button to do 2 things instead of one, so that if pressed once quickly (held down for less than 1 second), it will temporarily save the adjusted rig settings from an edit session so that one can compare the edited rig to some other rigs without losing the edited parameters, and then if the results are as desired, the settings can be "permanently" saved by holding the save button down for a longer period of time. If one didn't want to stay with the edited settings, the save button could be pressed quickly (held down for less than 1 second) to return to the "permanently" saved rig setting. Toggling back and forth between the saved rig setting and the edited setting could be done by just pressing the save button quickly (each time it was pressed, either the edited setting or the saved setting would be accessed). This could be done for any of the rigs at the same time. The rig would remain on the "edited" setting (maybe shown by a blinking light) until the "save" button was pressed again to return to the "saved" setting, or until the saved setting was depressed for a longer time (to save the edited setting. This would all allow one to edit several different rigs, and have the settings be retained temporarily while one compared the edited rigs to other rigs, and then more permanently saved by either pressing the "save" button for a longer duration, or reverting back to the already saved rig setting by momentarily pressing the save button. If one toggled back to the rig's saved setting, and one navigated away from the rig to another rig, the edited settings would (should) be lost. The only way to preserve the edited settings should be if the "save" button is pressed momentarily, to store the edited rig settings until a decision is made about whether to save them.
I would think this would be possible to do without hardware changes.
2. Another useful change (but it might require hardware changes) would be enable one to copy the saved settings of individual effects (or amps, cabs, etc) from one rig, and paste them into the corresponding locations in another rig, so if one had a setting they liked for certain components of a rig, they could be saved for use in another rig. I don't know whether this could be done without adding other buttons, but if so, it would be a useful feature to have for editing rig settings. I know it can be done in a more time consuming and slightly less accurate way by matching the device's control knob positions to the saved settings, and then accessing the other rig and "jockeying" the control knobs for the device so that the saved settings are transferred to the new rig. However, this takes more time and isn't as accurate as the copy and paste option would be. It could be that copy and paste could be done to device settings within ProTools, but it would be nice to be able to do this on the Eleven Rack being used in a stand-alone mode.
Let me know what you think about the possibility of using some of these changes in future updates for Eleven Rack.
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How about a touch screen control surface app for the Apple iPad?
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I have to unplug my Canopus when opening a session.
Terrible bug & hope it's fixed soon.
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A pro tools mini station in the size of a palm pilot. It would have an x-y coincident setup in the front, a trs/xlr combo jack, and a headphone port and it would allow you to record maybe 10 tracks or so. Basically, a Pro Tools on the go. Also, it would allow you to transfer the sessions to your pro tools system on your computer
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I know this will never happen, but I'm just curious to see what folks think anyway. In my fantasy world, I want them to completely overhaul, or get rid of and replace, the RTAS plugin format so we can once again bounce in non-realtime! Or heck, at the very LEAST make it an option in those rare sessions where there are no RTAS plug-ins in use! Is it just me, or does anyone else out there have problems with clients who are wanting to be able to walk away with a mix of the 1-2 hour program you just did, but they can't because they'd have to wait 1-2 hours for a mix to be done! And am I right or is PT the ONLY DAW with that outdated restriction?
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Deleting audio regions sends files to trash (or recycle bin) instead of completely erasing them. Many times, instead hitting remove, I accidentally hit delete region...this is not "undoable."
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1. Could you make a quick key for 'New Playlist'
2. Get rid of the letter 'N' as a quick key for 'Time line insertion/play'. We are all continually hitting this by accident when pressing the space bar to play. Generally you should be able to setup your own quick keys.
3. Allow multiple Audiosuite plug-ins to be open at the same time.
4. Bring back the ability to copy and paste text with the keyboard in protools dialog boxes. I.E you can't do this in the 'bounce to disk' dialog box.
Thanks a lot for a great product.
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