I would REALLY love a change in the markers. Please have multiple marker rulers in the edit window. I would also like to be able to set custom colors to certain markers. Also, in the marker list, I would love to be able to re-sort alphabetically and renumber sequentially after re-sorting.
Primarily what this would allow me to do is set ADR markers, foley markers, music markers, dialog markers, etc...
Often when I am tracking a song for the first time and don't yet know the song structure I'll drop a memory location in and mislabel it. But if I want to rename it I have to double click the memory location which moves the transport time to that memory location, thus completely stopping the musicians from continuing on with their take. Only made this mistake once, but it would be nice if anytime a track was recording ...more »
Often when I am tracking a song for the first time and don't yet know the song structure I'll drop a memory location in and mislabel it. But if I want to rename it I have to double click the memory location which moves the transport time to that memory location, thus completely stopping the musicians from continuing on with their take. Only made this mistake once, but it would be nice if anytime a track was recording double-clicking would not start playback from the memory location. It would be a lot easier to fix mislabeled memory locations or going back and adding comments to memory locations before the track stops recording.
« less full details »
And while at it, it wouldn't hurt to make markers visible too :)
In elastic audio, after scrubbing or positioning a marker, it would be good to use a keyboard shortcut to create the marker without having to move the mouse and lose your marker point.
It would be really good to be able to import a video EDL as markers. You can then easily park right on a picture cut. I've used this feature in Pyramix and it saves hours when recording ADR and foley, and is invaluable when cutting fx to picture.
The need is for a "go to next/previous marker" command and corresponding pair of keyboard shortcuts. This would enable navigating through series of markers without having to click in the marker lane, distinguishing that task from tabbing to next/previous region boundaries and/or transients.
I frequently use markers to leave reminders for myself as to what sound effects I need in a given project. I would love it if I could make use of that marker list in the "Spot" window. Let me use markers instead of a time scale, then give me a pull down menu that accesses my markers list for the head/tail/sync point entry boxes.
In Commands-Keyboard-Focus mode on the Edit Window there are several keyboard shortcuts: y, u, i and = (Equal key), that are left-overs from the time, editors worked with external, TC locked video.
Today, there should at least be an option in the preferences, to replace these with more useful commands like "snap to next/previous region" or "goto next/previous marker".
Currently if you choose to manually enter a number for a particular Memory Location / Marker that currently exists, you get a dialog "Are you sure you want to replace the configuration in slot XX? This cannot be undone." It would be great if you provided an option to move the existing marker to a new slot rather than blowing it away. As it stands now, once I realize that I may erase another marker I have to cancel, ...more »
Currently if you choose to manually enter a number for a particular Memory Location / Marker that currently exists, you get a dialog "Are you sure you want to replace the configuration in slot XX? This cannot be undone." It would be great if you provided an option to move the existing marker to a new slot rather than blowing it away.
As it stands now, once I realize that I may erase another marker I have to cancel, cancel again, find the old marker, double-click, re-number the old marker. re-locate where I want the new marker, then make the new marker (again).
« less full details »
So that one can use them to mark types of things (red for fixes, yellow for mood changes, green for ideas etc)
When editing in Elastic Audio, deleting all unused analysis markers is key to a good sounding result.
It's a PITA to do this manually, so why not have an option for it like "delete all fades"? :)
Enable the ability to convert multiple selected markers from absolute to relative and back. Currently must do them one at a time in the memory location window.
Especially from iZotope RX. I'd say Peak, too, if it weren't sadly defunct. Peak and RX read each other's regions and markers perfectly and automatically, so I know it's not proprietary data. It's an unnecessary pain to have to take screen shots and manually recreate location data.
Pro Tools is great for recording ADR, but somehow it's lacking in features to aid the speed and accuracy of such tasks. I'd like to see more integration between markers and adr cue sheets, streamers and beeps. i.e. New type of track in PT, called ADR Track. Like a click track. You drop special marker here, it places beeps before spot and also logs timecode into an XML type file which brings up drop down list ...more »
Pro Tools is great for recording ADR, but somehow it's lacking in features to aid the speed and accuracy of such tasks.
I'd like to see more integration between markers and adr cue sheets, streamers and beeps.
i.e.
New type of track in PT, called ADR Track. Like a click track. You drop special marker here, it places beeps before spot and also logs timecode into an XML type file which brings up drop down list of track names, this is where you'd select actors name. Then you can fill in line and info for it.
This xml file can be saved as excel or text file or brought into a database.
That same track when activated not only contains beeps automatically from marker drops, but at the click of a button, will also activate streamers on the desired video window.
Beyond this, it would be great to see a playlist created for the recorded track, without cycle record on. then some color options for quickly marking the chosen takes from director.
I do adr often and think there are many ways pro tools could enhance and speed up this process.
« less full details »
Social Web