Specifications
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You can allocate tracks to drives in the following
ways:
• To assign a track to a different hard drive,
click the track and select a drive name.
• To assign all tracks to the same hard drive,
press Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) while
selecting a drive name.
• To make a consecutive selection, Shift-click
a track name (in the Track column) to ex-
tend the selection to include already-se-
lected tracks and all tracks in between.
• To make a nonconsecutive selection, Com-
mand-click (Mac) or Control-click (Win-
dows) a track name in the Track column to
extend the selection to include already-se-
lected tracks without including tracks in-
between.
A folder with the session name is created on
each hard drive, containing subfolders for audio
and fade files.
4 To save recorded audio files to an existing
folder (without creating another session folder),
select
Customize Allocation Options, then click
Change and choose the folder. To create subfold-
ers in this folder, select the
Create Subfolders for
Audio, Video, and Fade Files
option.
5 When you are finished, click OK.
Saving Disk Allocation Settings
To save Disk Allocation settings for use with fu-
ture sessions, save the session as a template. See
“Creating Custom Templates” on page 26.
Disk Allocation and Cross-Platform
Sessions
To ensure cross-platform operation, it is re-
quired that Mac Pro Tools sessions and their as-
sociated audio files be on Mac-formatted (HFS
or HFS+) drives. Windows Pro Tools sessions
and their associated audio files must be on Win-
dows-formatted NTFS drives.
Reallocating Tracks
When opening a session where some of the pre-
viously assigned hard drives are no longer avail-
able (or do not match the current session plat-
form), Pro Tools automatically reassigns tracks
to the volume where the session file is stored. In
such cases, use Disk Allocation if you need to re-
allocate tracks to other drives.
On Windows, with the Digidesign HFS+
Disk Support option installed, you can re-
cord to and play back from Mac-formatted
HFS+ drives. For more information, see the
Mac HFS+ Disk Support Option Guide.