Re: How to find the current number of audio/insrument/MIDI tracks and basic/routing folders in a PT session?

['John André Lium-Netland' via Pro Tools Accessibility]

Hi Slau,

Thanks a lot for the solution on how  to option-click the folder icon.  And for 
your suggestions. I have a few comments:

•The limited number of routing folders is shared with the limited numbers of 
aux tracks, so when you have used 128 routing folders like I have, there is not 
more room for aux tracks either. So even though your suggestion to add an aux 
tracks in a basic folder with other tracks is great, it won’t help.

•The option-click work-around to open/close folders is also great, but it’s not 
a good solution to use the option-shift-W shortcut to hear the number of shown 
tracks, for example audio tracks, because with such a number of tracks that I 
have in this project, and the large number of nested folders, the FloTools 
command use just so long time to calculate what to read, that it hangs.

Really, I wish there was a simple window in Pro Tools, under Setup/Session that 
simply showed me the number of tracks used in a project, grouped into different 
track types. Should be a simple thing to fix. :)

But thanks for your help Slau, and the suggestions will absolutely come in 
handy anyways. :)

Best,
John André

 

> 2. feb. 2024 kl. 20:36 skrev Slau Halatyn :
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> OK, I found a solution for your issue. To perform a modified click on the 
> folder icon, interact with the folder track and navigate toward the bottom 
> where the name plate appears. VoiceOver speaks the name of the track and 
> erroneously reports it as a pop-up button. To the left of the name plate, is 
> the track type, again, erroneously labelled. If you perform an Option-click 
> on this icon, it will expand or collapse all folders. remember, however, that 
> nested folders retain their open/close state so you might expand the top 
> level folders but have a few closed nested folders. You can repeat the 
> process on nested folders and continue expanding. Once all folders have been 
> expanded, Option-clicking a top-level folder will collapse and expand all 
> folders. That’s the expected behavior for Pro Tools. If you close one of the 
> nested folders, it’ll remember the state of that particular folder and keep 
> it closed unless you specifically expand it. This memory for the open/close 
> status extends to the show/hide status of tracks contained within folders. In 
> other words, if you explicitly hide tracks, they will remain hidden if you 
> show or hide and open or close a folder. Pro Tools remembers the state which 
> is as it should be. Anyway, I just opened a session with a bunch of nested 
> folders and tested this and, with the filtering of folders, the whole 
> reporting of numbers by flo Tools works nicely and the Option-click works 
> consistently as long as the control is visible. Don’t display all inserts and 
> all sends if you can avoid it and remember that Pro Tools displays about 16 
> tracks per view in the Mix window. beyond that, you’ll need to either scroll 
> to track to make sure it’s the first item on the left hand side of the window 
> or scroll with Option+Page Up and Page Down.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Slau
> 
> 
>> On Feb 2, 2024, at 5:44 AM, 'John André Lium-Netland' via Pro Tools 
>> Accessibility  wrote:
>> 
>> Hello again, 
>> 
>> Since I have a lot of files placed in nested folders at least 4 levels down, 
>> the option-shift-W command will only tell me the number of shown tracks of 
>> that type in the folders that are open. There is a way to open all nested 
>> folders, that is to option click on the folder icon, but even with Flo Mouse 
>> I have not had success performing this procedure, since I do not know 
>> exactly where the folder icon is in the track list.
>> 
>> Any suggestions? Or is there a shortcut to expand all folders in all levels?
>> 
>> Best,
>> John André
>> 
>> 
>>> 1. feb. 2024 kl. 16:49 skrev Slau Halatyn :
>>> 
>>> HI John,
>>> 
>>> If you use the Track List pop-up button to show only the various track 
>>> types, you can very quickly use the Flo Tools Speak Shown Tracks feature by 
>>> pressing Option+Shift+W and have VoiceOver speak the number of tracks shown 
>>> for that type. Remember, however, that the filtering doesn’t distinguish 
>>> between routing folders and basic folders. I’m not sure if there’s a limit 
>>> on the number of basic folders but, if you don’t specifically need the 
>>> routing and processing aspect, that might be a work-around for track number 
>>> limitations. Of course, doing post-production for film and video almost 
>>> requires those higher track counts.
>>> 
>>> Another work-around is to use an auxiliary input within a basic foder. That 
>>> way, you can technically get the benefit of the routing and inserts while 
>>> still being able to collapse tracks. Just a thought.
>>> 
>>> HTH,
>>> Slau
>>> 
>>> 
 On Feb 1, 2024, at 9:14 AM, 'John André Lium-Netland' via Pro Tools 
 Accessibility  wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I’ve tried to find info about this elsewhere, but with no luck.
 
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RE: Be My Eyes/ Be My AI

[clgilland07]

I don’t want to start a warfalem here, so I’m going to once give my thoughts on 
this, then leave it to rest.

 

First, I dont’ want to take your message out of context, so let me be sure I’m 
understanding correctly what you’re saying.

 

Are you saying, if I hear you correctly, that you randomly take a photo with Be 
My AI part of Be My Eyes, then, once you get the conversation thread started 
with that random question, you then turn around and start randomly asking it 
completely unrelated questions from that of the initial taken photo, now, 
asking it things about ProTools instead?

 

I’d definitely think that is not what this service is for, and thad that this 
probably would fall in the lines of violation of the Be my Eyes TOS, I’m 
willing though to stand corrected. Further, I’m also willing to give merrit to 
the fact I may be misinterpreting the meaning of your initial message, and I’m 
open for further clarification if that’s the case.

 

I think a better AI service for something like this if it were needed would be 
Chat GPT, or maybe Google Bard, or even Bing AI/Copilate.

 

Like I said, I don’t intend to drag this on. In fact, I have no intentions of 
responding further to this.

 

I welcome any thoughts to be sent to me privately, as long as they are civil in 
nature. My reason for writing this response is not to belittle nor attack 
anyone. This is just my opinion, though I realize it may not be that of others’.

 

clgillan...@gmail.com  

 

Chris.

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Be My Eyes/ Be My AI

[seanacummins]

Hi All,

 

A quick down and dirty and very handy little trick to cut your
question-and-answer time down when looking for answers about Pro Tools.

 

When using the Be My eyes app in the Be My AI tab, you all know that you can
ask questions after it analyzes your current photo shot.  Well, I now use
the AI's "ask more" text field, to ask specific question about Pro Tools.  I
couldn't believe how accurate and succinct the answers that AI came up with.
I cut my Q research down to 1 tenth of the time and the answers I now get,
result in far less mental burn-out getting back to work.  

 

I also am gathering all the result, into a Cheat sheet that gets right to
the point!

 

All I can say, is try it out, I think you'll be just as amazed as I am!

 

Sean

 

 

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