Steve, I thought there was a dedicated menu item for writing to the end of the session. There's certainly a button in the Automation window for it but, as I said, I'm so used to pressing a button for it.
HTH, Slau On Mar 18, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Stephen Martin wrote: > 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? >> >
