Specifications

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To apply a color from the Color Palette:
1 Choose Window > Color Palette.
2 Do one of the following:
• In the
Apply to Selected pop-up menu, select the
destination for color coding:
Tracks, Marker,
Group, Clips in Tracks, or Clips in Clip List.
• Select a track, marker, group, track clip, or Clip
List clip in the appropriate Pro Tools window.
The
Apply to Selected menu will display the
type of item you have selected.
3 Select a color from the palette, or select one of
the following:
Default Removes any custom coloring and restores
the color to the default color orientation. See “Dis-
play Page Preferences for Color Coding” on
page 255 for more information.
None Turns off color assignment. Affected clips
are drawn with black waveform or MIDI 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
multiple items (such as track and clips).
By default, the
Hold button is off. When off, the
Color Palette automatically highlights the assigned
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 clip is se-
lected.
To use the Hold button to assign the same color to
multiple items:
1 Click the Hold button to enable it. The Hold but-
ton becomes white, and the currently selected
color is now highlighted with a wider white out-
line.
2 Select additional tracks or clips to which you
want to assign the same color. Because the
Hold
button is enabled, the Color Palette does not fol-
low item selection; it remains (or “holds”) at the
last currently assigned color.
3 Click the assigned color again to assign it to the
new selection of tracks or clips. Use the
Apply to
Selected
pop-up menu to determine which se-
lected elements are affected.
4 To turn off Hold and return the Color Palette to
its default mode, click the
Hold button until it
turns off.
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 255 for more
information.