Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide472
The main view formats are:
• Audio tracks: Blocks and Waveform
• MIDI tracks: Blocks, Regions, and Notes
For example, when an audio track is set to
Waveform or Blocks, cutting, copying and past-
ing affects the audio data and all types of auto-
mation data on that track. If the track is set to
show Pan automation, only the Pan data is af-
fected.
When a selection includes multiple tracks, if
any of those tracks is in its main view format, all
data on all selected tracks is affected.
To edit all automation types on an Auxiliary In-
put or Master Fader track, do one of the follow-
ing:
• Make an edit selection that includes at least
one audio or MIDI track that is displayed in its
main format.
– or –
• Press Control while cutting or copying the au-
tomation data.
Tips for Cutting, Copying and Pasting
◆ On audio tracks, when you are in Waveform
View and cut or copy a section of the waveform,
any automation data associated with the wave-
form is also cut or copied.
◆ On audio tracks, when you are in Waveform
View and cut audio data from a track also con-
taining automation data, breakpoints are auto-
matically created at the boundaries of the
remaining automation data.
◆ On audio tracks, pasting waveform data also
pastes any associated automation data.
◆ On Auxiliary Input or Master Fader tracks,
only the displayed automation data is cut or
copied. To cut or copy all automation data on
these types of tracks, press Control while cutting
or copying.
◆ In tracks where an automation playlist con-
tains no data (when there is only a single break-
point at the very beginning of the track), if you
cut data, no new breakpoints are created.
◆ In cases where regions overlap (such as when
moving regions in Slip mode) and an overlap-
ping region is removed, any overlapped auto-
mation breakpoints are lost.
◆ If cut or copied data contains a type of auto-
mation not currently on the target track,
Pro Tools prompts you before allowing you to
paste the data.
◆ Cut or copied automation data for plug-ins or
sends that do not exist on the target track is ig-
nored when pasted.
Special Paste Function for Automation
Data
Normally, when you copy and paste automa-
tion data, it is pasted in an automation playlist
of the exact same type (for example, Left Pan
data is pasted into the Left Pan playlist).
However, there may be times when you want to
paste from one data type to another (for exam-
ple, pasting Send 1 level data into the Send 2
level playlist, or track mute data into the send
mute playlist).
For additional flexibility, you can use play-
lists or the Duplicate Track command to
work nondestructively on a copy of the edit
data.