Hi Peter, I'm responding to this on the PTAccess list because it can often be of help to other users when they see these issues and how potentially to resolve them. Regarding the clips in the clips List, as you know, VoiceOver notoriously sees things beyond the visible boundaries of windows and tables. what's probably happening is that VoiceOver is focused on an item that is outside of the actual list. What you need to do is search for the file name you want to import. That will narrow down the list and essentially guarantee that the list only contains a handful of files. As far as dragging to the insertion, the Pro Tools command that is being issued by Flo Tools is a Control-drag which is exactly the command to drag to the insertion point. I can't see how it's possible that the file is not ending up at the insertion point unless Timeline and Edit somehow became unlinked or something having to do with the insertion not actually being seen. Again, that whole edit window scrolling thing needs to be checked whenever you're planning on doing any dragging. For what it's worth (although this probably technically doesn't quite matter), you might want to check to see if the Grabber Tool is selected when doing things like dragging.
Regarding the conforming of audio to session tempo, take a look in the Preferences dialog under the Processing tab, specifically the Import and elastic clusters. It would be easier to demo this on WhatsApp but go through those options and make sure things make sense like not automatically converting files upon import or dragging from desktop, etc. Perhaps that might help if you've found some degree of success with dragging from a workspace. Hope that helps and get well soon, Slau > On Feb 8, 2018, at 5:50 AM, Peter Bosher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Slau, > > After your help on Tuesday, I had a completely successful day's editing > yesterday, but this morning I have a new problem. I'm on a deadline, and in > a few days when the work is done and when my flu goes away so that I can talk > again, I'll do a detailed WhatsApp on this topic, but meanwhile please, if > you can help with the following, it mightsave me one more time. > > I'm assembling a programme entirely from pre-recorded clips, with voiceover, > music interviews and so-on, so the main thing I need to do is get clips into > the project on the track I want and at the correct time position. > > Yesterday, the FloTools drag from clips-list to timeline was working. It > never got to the insertion point, but I could simply cut it from where it > landed, and paste it to the right place. Today, the clip that gets dragged is > not the one I choose, but one a few places up. A sighted person sees that > the voiceover box is selecting the wrong clip, even though it's speaking the > one I want. the mouse pointer is set to follow the VO cursor, but is there > any other setting I should check which could explain this? > > That was question 1. > > Question 2 is that one other way to achieve what I want, is to find the clip > in the workspace window, and then choose 'spot to edit insertion'. However, > when I do that, it tries to conform to tempo. I don't want it to do that, but > is there an option which would stop corrupting the clip and just let me spot > it as it is? > > Those are my immediate questions, but when I come to do the Whatsapp I'll > expand on this particular process. Why, why, why, can there not be an option > in the import audio dialogue, that would simply let you spot the clip to the > edit insertion, without creating a new track which is really not helpful. > Anyway that's for another time but please do say if you can see simple > solutions to either approach 1 or 2? > > Very best, > > Peter > -- 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.
