Color Palette - DigiDesign Pro Tools 8.0 Reference Manual

Color Palette

The Color Palette lets you make color selections
for tracks, regions, groups and markers.
Apply to Selected
Apply to Channel Strip
Saturation
Brightness
Last assigned color
Color Palette window
The Color Palette supports independent region
color coding in the Region List and in tracks.
To apply a color from the Color Palette:
Choose Window > Color Palette.
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Do one of the following:
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• In the Apply to Selected pop-up menu, se-
lect the destination for color coding:
Tracks, Marker, Group, Regions in Tracks, or
Regions in Region List.
– or –
• Select a track, marker, group, track region,
or Region List region in the appropriate
Pro Tools window. The Apply to Selected
menu will display the type of item you
have selected.
If selecting a marker does not display the
Marker option in the Apply to Selected
pop-up menu, then the Always Display
Marker Colors option in the Display Prefer-
ences page is deselected. See "Always Dis-
play Marker Colors" on page 193 for more
information.
Select a color from the palette, or select one of
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the following:
Default Removes any custom coloring and re-
stores the color to the default color orientation.
See "Display Page Preferences for Color Coding"
on page 193 for more information.
None Turns off color assignment. Affected re-
None
gions are drawn with black waveform or MIDI
Default
notes on light gray background. Affected tracks
and groups no longer show their color bars.
Using the Hold Button
The Color Palette provides a Hold button to sim-
plify the process of assigning the same colors to
Hold
multiple items (such as track and regions).
By default, the Hold button is off. When off, the
Color Palette automatically highlights the as-
signed color (if any) of items as you select them.
When the Hold button is enabled, the assigned
color selected in the Color Palette persists and
does not change when a different track or region
is selected.
To use the Hold button to assign the same color to
multiple items:
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button becomes white, and the currently se-
lected color is now highlighted with a wider
white outline.
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you want to assign the same color. Because the
Hold button is enabled, the Color Palette does
not follow item selection; it remains (or
"holds") at the last currently assigned color.
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the new selection of tracks or regions. Use the
Apply to Selected pop-up menu to determine
which selected elements are affected.
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its default mode, click the Hold button until it
turns off.
Click the Hold button to enable it. The Hold
Select additional tracks or regions to which
Click the assigned color again to assign it to
To turn off Hold and return the Color Palette to
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