Last week, Digidesign released, well… PRE-released their Pro Tools update that officially brings Pro Tools to Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Pro Tools 8.03 will not only bring you official compatibility with OS X 10.6, but it also is the first Pro Tools release to not support some legacy hardware, such as: Original M-Box, All PowerPC Macs, Mix Era IO Peripherals (888 I/O, Adat Bridge) and The Expansion|HD Chassis.
Here’s a video of 8.03pr running on my mac with 10.6.
Here are some useful shortcuts for the fade window (command + F with a selection). If you are doing some hardcore editing, where one fade type is not always appropriate for every edit, these will keep you from drowning puppies in a fit of frustrated rage.
The region list is a very powerful ally in your quest for effective session management. Here are my 7 most used shortcuts that deal with the region list. (that’s not including this shortcut discussed earlier)
When using a scroll wheel on your mouse, trackball, or tablet, there are some modifiers that can be very helpful when navigating in Pro Tools. (especially the edit window)
Shift – Scroll: Horzizontal Scroll
Option – Scroll : Zooms horizontally depending on which way you scroll.
Option – Shift – Scroll : Zooms your waveform size in the edit window.
Command – Shift – Scroll: A finer horizontal scroll.
Command – Scroll: A finer vertical scroll.
This doesn’t come up very often, but when it does you’ll be glad this little shortcut is around. Control+Command+V (Paste Special: To Current Automation Type) is used when you want to copy automation data from one type of parameter (for example volume automation) and paste it onto a different parameter (for example send automation).
This Blog is where you'll find the Pro Tools shortcuts and features that we're obsessing about this week. They may be new features, old ones revisited, or just a hotkey we never knew existed.
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