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Ghost Regions
If you decide not to copy the file, Pro Tools
will display what are called Ghost regions.
Ghost regions occur in cases where Disk
I/O SCSI chain/voice combinations make
them invalid for playback. A Ghost region
appears “grayed out” (much like a muted
region does) and signifies that the audio is
not present on the drive to which the voice
refers, and is not available for audio play-
back as currently assigned.
If you have Ghost regions in a session, each
time you open the session it will ask you if
you wish to copy the Ghost regions onto
the appropriate drive so that you will be
able to use the regions as voiced.
Ghost regions can still be selected with the
Grabber tool and moved or deleted, or au-
ditioned from the Regions List. They will
not play as currently assigned. They can be-
come regular “active” regions again if you
place them on a track/voice that is valid for
the Disk I/O associated with the region.
If you open a session which has a re-
gion/voice/hard drive assignment conflict,
a warning dialog will appear, alerting you
of this condition and offering several solu-
tions. The options in the dialog are as fol-
lows:
Look for Duplicated Files If this option is
enabled, before it begins copying files to
the necessary drive, Pro Tools will check if
the needed “parent” audio files or regions
have already been copied to the drive. This
helps prevent unnecessary duplication of
audio data.
Look for Compatible Voices If this option is
enabled, Pro Tools will try to resolve the
problem by assigning conflicting voices
from the “swapped” drive to available valid
voices.
Copy Files to New Drives. If this option is
enabled, Pro Tools will copy the files to the
necessary drive (if there is enough space). If
the Look for Duplicated Files option is also
enabled, Pro Tools will check if the needed
“parent” audio files or regions already re-
side on the drive before it begins copying.
If the Look for Duplicated Files option is
not enabled, Pro Tools will copy the re-
quired files without checking first.
Alternatives to Copying an Entire
Audio File
If you wish to move a region without copy-
ing the entire sound file, you can place the
region on a track which is routed to a drive
where the audio actually resides. Alterna-
tively, you can use the Duplicate Plug-In in
the AudioSuite menu, or you can bounce
the region to disk, thereby creating a new
audio file that consists of just the region.
Refer to the DigiRack Plug-Ins Guide to learn
how to use the Duplicate Plug-In. For infor-
mation on bouncing, refer to the Mixing
chapter in the Pro Tools Reference Guide.