Hello, I am having a hard time finding the write automation to entire selection, any idea where it may be or a shortcut key for it. On Mar 18, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote:
> Steve, > > The problem with trying to do automation without a control surface is that > the automation process will change the parameters to the automated values > unless you either drag a fader or draw in the values by eye. If you did know, > for example, that you wanted to drop the level of a track by, say, 6 dB, you > can do something as specific as that fairly easily. Let's say your track is > starting out at 0 dB and you've already begun the automation process by > putting all tracks into Automation write mode at the beginning of the > session, enabled volume automation within the Automation window and engaged > the transport. > > After stopping the transport, move the transport to the playback position > where you wish to make the drop in volume. > 1. Put the track into Auto Write mode again. > 2. Change the volume level of the track to minus 6 dB. > 3. Engage playback but don't stop the transport right away. > > The last thing you need to do is write automation to the end of the session. > There's a keyboard shortcut for it that I don't remember because I use a > dedicated button for it on my control surface but you can find it in the Edit > menu. Once you press that command, Pro Tools will prompt you asking whether > you want to write the automation to the end of the session. Press OK and > you're set. > > If you don't press the command to write to the end of the session, the > automation will only write the minus 6 dB level to the track for as long as > the transport is engaged. This would be handy, of course, if you only needed > the track to be lower for a few bars or so. > > > As with many things in Pro Tools, there's another way to do this. You can > instead use Latch mode so that when you enter automation record mode, > whatever your current value is, it'll write it to the end of the session > automatically. This, of course, is great if you want that effect but not at > all helpful if you just want to overwrite some automation in the middle and > keep the rest of the automation moves. > > Further still, you can make a selection range and experiment with levels > during playback and, once you've achieved the right level, choose "Write to > Entire Selection" which will write the last level set to the entire selection > range. > > Automation is extremely powerful and at the same time very dangerous. It's > easy to have things go awry. For that reason, a control surface is really a > super handy accessory. I don't think I'd try much automation without a > surface myself. Hopefully that helps a bit. > > slau > > On Mar 18, 2012, at 2:55 PM, Steve Martin wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Been reading the manual trying to figure out how to do automation >> snapshots. Basically i have a project i am working on that starts out with >> 2 instruments and i want to drop the volume of one when the third instrument >> kick in. I cand so far see how to do fade in/out and volume automation using >> the fader and moving it during playback. But is there a way to set the >> volume at specific levels and have it automatically snap to those different >> levels during playback withough using the fader approach? >
