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Preview Mode

Preview Mode

Here’s another quick video to demonstrate a key automation feature from the PTHD7.2 release. Its called Preview mode. Many clients want to audition a change in their automation from region to region, scene to scene, before committing to “Writing” it. The most common way of doing that pre-7.2 was to suspend your automation, find the sweet spot for your settings, then Write them to your selection and re-engage automation.

Preview mode allows you to skip the “suspend automation” step, and “dynamically suspends” only the parameters of your mix that you touch. So you can hear your changes in the context of your mix, without turning off global automation families like Inserts or volume.

Preview mode and Latch Prime in Stop

“ICON Bootcamp” up next…

Spanning disks with large trackcounts

Spanning disks with large trackcounts

Of late, Ive seen quite a few clients get themselves into corners, with poor system performance due to track count issues and large sessions. There seems to be an assumption out there that you can run 100+ tracks off the average 5200rpm Firewire drive…that is simply not the case! In this video I show how easy it is to manage the process of spanning your session across multiple hard drives, explain a few caveats, and show how to bring it back to one volume for backups etc

Spanning Hard Drives from Brent Heber on Vimeo.

Atmos/Ambience beds and Region Looping

Atmos/Ambience beds and Region Looping

The only shortcuts I used in the above video were fairly straight forward editing ones:

Region Loop = Option/alt + Command/Start + L
Using the trim tool at the bottom edge of a looped region to edit the selected content

Here is an excerpt of a short cut list I assembled for guys doing quick turnaround/churn and burn editing:

Grabber modifiers
Snap region “Head” to Cursor location Ctrl/Win + Grab
Snap region “Tail” to Cursor location Ctrl/Win + Command/Ctrl + Grab
Snap region Sync point to Cursor location Ctrl/Win + Shift + Grab
Insert Sync point Command/Win + Comma (,)
Copy region to Cursor Location As above + Option/Alt

Trims (with keyboard focus enabled)
Top trim to cursor location A
Tail trim to cursor location S
Top and tail (Trim to Selection) Command/Win + T

Fades
Fade from beginning of region to cursor location D
Fade from end of region to cursor location G
Create crossfade across selection without popup Ctrl/Win + Command/Ctrl + F

Nudging
Nudge left/right + or – on numeric keys
Nudge left/right , or . (in CF mode)
Nudge left/right by next higher nudge value M or / (in CF mode)
Nudge content of region left or right Ctrl/Win and +/- on numeric keys
Shift Selection Opt/Alt + H

Navigation
Go to and select next region Ctrl/Win + TAB
Go to and select previous region Ctrl/Win + Opt/Ctrl + TAB
Enter main counter * on numeric keys (in CF mode)
Enter Start/End/Length counters / on numeric keys (in CF mode)

Multiples
Duplicate at end of selection Command/Ctrl + D
Repeat selection Opt/Alt + R then enter quantity
Region Loop Opt/alt + Command/Win + L

Hope these are useful!

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