Hi Brian, Well, you've sure chosen to dive in at the deep end, eh? No pressure ;)
It's odd that you would have seen the tracks list table after all of your tracks. I've never seen that behavior. To be clear, though, you are, in fact, seeing the tracks list table in the Mix window? Under the view menu, you can show or hide the tracks list table. I'm not at the studio so I'm not 100% sure but I believe it's under the Other Displays menu. If you're seeing any tracks in the Mix window, that would suggest that they're being shown and, unless you have something on the order of 24 tracks, pretty much all of them should be visible and displaying correctly. Make sure you don't have the "narrow mix window" displayed (under the view menu). I don't know what else to tell you on such short notice. Yeah, good thing you know your preamps and, as long as you're recording at 24 bits, you have loads of headroom. Even at your most conservative, you should be fine. Slau On Apr 20, 2015, at 10:58 PM, CaseyBrian Casey <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, I've just jumped on the PT band waggon, and am all ready to go > tracking my first session in studio, but meter reading issues have come out > of no where, leading me to be very much less prepared than I had thought. > > The catch may well be that I'm using PT 12 on osx 10.10 so if someone has > that around and can chime in I'd really appreciate it. I didn't know any > means of sticking to PT 11 on the subscription plan I have so thought 12 > should be fairly consistent in terms of its behaviour with Voice over. > > I was reading peaks just fine before but can't get any consistent behaviour > now with the tips in this thread or any combination of hiding and unhiding > tracks. Luckily I know my pre-amps ok and should be able to track without > input metering for tomorrows session, but I'll probably get some strange > looks from some observing musician at some stage when I record super low > accidentally or something. > > I'm not sure if it is something that has changed in PT 12 but I don't seem > to be getting a pop up list button for the track list in the mix window, I > have a track list table and a group list table. From using PT ages ago on > version 8 and listen to the PT with speech tutorials I seem to be under the > impression there was a pop up button somewhere for a track list. > > When I am VO and right arrowing over from the close button of the mix window, > the track list table and other bits and pieces come after all the tracks in > my session. > > No amount of paging up or down and such has seemed to have solved this for me > and even shrinking down the session to only showing 4 or so tracks doesn't > allow me to read meters on all 4 tracks, just a couple. > > Voice Over does speak that there is a level meter, just not a value for it. > > Also when trying to option click or command click stuff I'm not getting any > real luck after routing the mouse to the Voice Over curser, but I'm new to > all this, so there are probably any number of ways I'm shooting myself in the > foot. > > Any quick feedback is much appreciated. > > > On Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 11:16:58 PM UTC+1, Slau Halatyn wrote: > For a few years, I've been using the newer versions of Pro Tools but only > began using the latest version at the studio as of this year. Having spent > more time with PT 11 on a day-to-day basis, I've come to notice something > that didn't occur to me earlier. I've never seen mention of it on the list > although the general subject has come up. I have not, however, seen any posts > offering the following explanation. For what it's worth, here it is: > > As, I'm sure, many of you have noticed, tracks sometimes appear, for lack of > a better way of saying it, "to the left" of the Tracks List pop-up button > (erroneously labeled, "Show/Hide label.") When interacting with those tracks, > VoiceOver does see all of the elements and one can certainly interact with > controls and change input paths, etc. However, when trying to perform actions > that involve routing the mouse pointer and doing a modified click, things > don't work as expected. Actually, they don't work at all. The reason is that, > when the tracks appear to be to the left of that pop-up button, they're > actually not visible on screen and therefore cannot be accessed by the mouse > pointer. Scrolling into view has certainly been suggested on the list as well > as showing only the tracks in question. That's all good but an alternative is > to simply page up or, even quicker, use the bank select on a control surface > to expose the left-most tracks or, conversely, the right-most bank if that's > what you need. > > This is one of those things that has come up on the list a few times but I've > never seen this particular observation. Regardless, putting it out there. > > Slau > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
