Useful Library Commands - Merging Pyramix User Manual

If you have a section of a tracklay that you could edit in a number of different ways and want to give the dubbing
mixer and/or director options during the mix you can:
• Highlight the initial edit version.
• Color it with a pre-agreed color for "alternate versions available" to be recognized.
• Save it into a Global Library.
• Delete it from the Timeline and complete another fresh edit, coloring it in the same manner once com-
pleted.
• Repeat the process as many times as needed.
When it comes to the mix the dubbing mixer can see that there is an alternative version and use the Place func-
tion in the Library to put into place any of the other versions. The dubbing mixer can even use the Trimmer in the
Global Libraries tab to audition the edit on its own before placing it on the Timeline.
Creating a Folder Structure Independent of Sound Library Structure
Depending on the editor's personal preferences and the working practices in facilities, sound effects may exist in
numerous physical libraries and be in an order that does not make a lot of sense in an everyday workflow. Global
Libraries allow for complete reordering and restructuring, with the ability to create a folder structure manually.
This allows for a sound editor to create and refine their tools as time goes by, creating more and more streamlined
methods of organizing (and thus finding!) files for use in editing.
Libraries as Sharing Tools for Multiple Pyramix's Working Together
Global Libraries are multi-read files since they do not actually require saving in order to update them on the disk.
Thus, it is possible for a user on one Pyramix computer to place information and edits in a Global Library, and if
that same Library is open on another, network connected Pyramix, then that editor can simply grab the Library
item and place it on their Timeline.
Uses of this Feature:
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Saving Mixer Information Away from a Timeline
By using the same method as one would for saving a part of the Timeline to a library, users can also save an entire
Mixer's worth of parameters, or that of any individual VS3 plug-in in the Mixer.
Some reasons for saving parameters to a library
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Useful Library Commands

SHIFT+ALT Click and Drag to drag Mixers and composite edits into a Library.
Right-click on a composite edit in a Library and choose Place and then select: Original Timecode , Original
Track to return a composite edit to its original placing in the Timeline
New Shelf in the Library menu in the Global Libraries tab makes new sub folders.
A Dialogue editor can send updates to the FX editor(s) without having to save Projects and ask them
to open/copy/paste.
FX editors can make available any additional sounds they are working on for other editors to use as a
reference.
A common library folder can be used a repository for any series based sounds that anyone might
need access to.
EQ settings for standard use. (Source music from a radio effect for example.)
Mixer Snapshot for a scene that will be occurring again in the Timeline.
Aux sends for reverbs.
Basic levels of individual Tracks.
Mic Pre amp settings for Horus Mic-Pres.
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