Specifications

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Field Recorder Workflow
Improvements
(Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools with Complete
Production Toolkit Only)
Field Recorder Guide Track
With Pro Tools 10, to enable Field Recorder
functionality on a track, you designate it as a
Field Recorder Guide Track. This allows
Pro Tools to optimize performance by only cre-
ating match lists for designated tracks.
In lower versions of Pro Tools, match lists were
created for every audio track in a session, which
took additional time and system resources.
Search for Matches Outside the
Session
Pro Tools 10 lets you search outside the current
session for field recorder files, so that you can
import only the audio you need, saving time and
disk space.
Lower versions of Pro Tools can only search the
contents of the Clip List for matching field re-
corder channels. Due to the large amount of raw
production field recorder files in many projects,
having to import all of these into the session can
be problematic.
Don’t Convert Preference
In some workflows, production audio is re-
corded at 48,048 Hz to compensate for a pull
down that is applied downstream in the work-
flow. With Pro Tools 10, you can choose to pull
these files down to 48,000 Hz in real time during
playback, by enabling the
Don’t Convert Sample
Rate on Import from Workspace/Desktop
option
in Pro Tools Preferences (
Preferences > Process-
ing > Import
).
In lower versions of Pro Tools, enabling this
function requires a more complex procedure,
done during each import.
For more information on Pro Tools field
recorder workflows and features, see the
Pro Tools Reference Guide.
Press Command+Option+Up/Down Arrow
(Mac) or Control+Alt+Up/Down Arrow
(Windows) to toggle field recorder matches
found inside the session.