Expanding Alternate Channels To New Playlists Or Tracks - DigiDesign Pro Tools 8.0 Reference Manual

Expanding Alternate Channels
to New Playlists or Tracks
(Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE with Complete
Production Toolkit or DV Toolkit 2 Only)
When working with a mono region that is part
of a multichannel recording imported from a
field recorder, you can expand that region (or a
selected portion of it) to new playlists that re-
flect its matching alternate channels while pre-
serving any edits or fades.
For detailed information on working with
multichannel recordings made with field
recorders, see the Field Recorder Workflow
Guide.
Conditions for Alternate Channel
Availability
An alternate channel is available to replace the
original channel (represented by the region or
portion of a region selected on the Timeline) if
all of the following are true:
• Both channels are part of a multichannel
part of a recording made simultaneously
on one or more field recorders.
• Certain metadata matches between the
original channel and the alternate channel.
• The metadata embedded during shooting
and recording has been preserved prior to
import into Pro Tools.
With multichannel recordings from one or
more field recorders, both channels must over-
lap at least once between their start time code
and end time code positions, and must also
meet one of the following conditions:
• Matching Scene and Take
• Matching Shoot Date (applies only if Scene
and Take contain any information for both
channels)
• Matching Tape name
• Matching Sound Roll name
• Alternate channel Sound Roll name
matches current channel Tape name
• Alternate channel Tape name matches cur-
rent channel Sound Roll name
Expanding Channels to New
Playlists
To expand alternate channels to new playlists:
In the Timeline, do one of the following:
1
• To expand only a portion of the regions on
the track, make a selection that includes or
overlaps any number of regions on a track,
and Right-click (Windows or Mac) or Con-
trol-click (Mac) the selection.
– or –
• To expand all of the regions on the track,
Right-click (Windows or Mac) or Control-
click (Mac) the track name.
Choose the Expand to New Playlists pop-up
2
menu, and select one of the following methods
by which to expand alternate channels for the
selection to new tracks:
• By Channel Name
• By Channel Number
• By Channel Name and Number
• By Time Code Only
If alternate channels are available, Pro Tools ex-
pands them to new playlists (including the
channel represented in the original track) ac-
cording to the selected option.
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