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Status SymbolsĪ couple of additional status indicators have been added into the toolbar in 12.6. When a track contains only the main Playlist, the Playlist selector is grey when a track contains more than one Playlist, the Playlist selector turns blue. The new Layered Editing features mean that Pro Tools can create Playlists automatically, potentially without the user noticing, so Avid have added a new Playlist indicator. Under the previous behaviour, or with Layered Editing disabled, deleting the smaller clip would leave you with a hole. If the playlist option is disabled, the blue graduation at the right-hand side becomes a red graduation, warning that you will not be able to retrieve any completely obscured clips.Īnother change with Layered Editing is that when you take a smaller clip and drop it in the middle of a larger clip, then delete the smaller clip, the original clip will be restored to its complete state. Now with the Record preference enabled, every clip that is recorded over is pushed down onto another Playlist rather than being lost from the track.
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In Pro Tools 12.5 and earlier, if you were recording onto a track with clips already on it, you could easily record over a clip and it would be completely lost from the track.
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Screen 2: Layered Editing has its own toolbar button.There is also a similar feature relating specifically to the situation where you’re recording new clips over old ones. (Any clips only partially obscured can be restored using the Trim tool as before.) You can see this in action if the track is in Playlist view, but you don’t need to be in order for this to work. With this feature enabled, when you drag a clip that will completely obscure clips already on a track, those clips about to be completely obscured are moved onto a new Playlist. However, all is not lost, thanks to another related feature added in Pro Tools 12.6 called Send Overlapping Clips To Playlist, in the Editing tab of Pro Tools Preferences. If I do let go, Layered Editing won’t stop the new clip obscuring the other clips and, as before, if I subsequently delete the new clip, any clip completely obscured will be gone. You can see in Screen 1 (above) that the boundaries of the clips visible in the Edit window are all highlighted in blue and there is a blue graduation at the right-hand edge of the screen which shows that there are other clips out of sight that are going to be obscured by the clip I am dragging in. One of the things that Layered Editing does is give you a warning when this sort of thing is about to happen. Often I’ve only spotted my mistake later on when the move is no longer in the undo queue, so the only way to restore that sequence would be to import it from an earlier version of the session. Clip Coverageīefore 12.6, I have lost count of the number of times I have dragged a long clip out of the clip list and dropped it over a carefully crafted sequence of clips and edits without noticing what I’ve done. There are two ways to turn the Layered Editing feature on and off: either go into the Options menu and select or deselect Layered Editing, or use the new Layered Editing button in the toolbar. The easiest way to explain how this Layered Editing feature works is to demonstrate a number of scenarios with and without layered editing enabled. However, with the release of Pro Tools 12.6 Avid have added a Layered Editing feature that can help with, and warn against, dropping clips over the top of existing clips on tracks. If you dragged one clip over another, all you’d see (and hear) was the top layer and if you deleted the top layer, anything underneath it was deleted too. Prior to version 12.6 Pro Tools was a what-you-see-is-what-you-get or ‘WYSIWYG’ application, at least as far as overlapping clips were concerned. We explain how the new editing features in Pro Tools 12.6 will benefit everyone. The blue shading at the right indicates that further clips off screen will also be affected. Screen 1: Layered Editing in Pro Tools 12.6 provides visual warnings when you’re about to obscure clips on a track by moving another clip over them.