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Pro Tools Reference Guide630
Expanding Alternate Takes to
New Playlists or Tracks
Pro Tools lets you copy alternate takes and
channels to new playlists or tracks. This is useful
for auditioning, editing, and mixing multiple al-
ternate takes or channels. Alternate takes are
created when punch and loop recording. Alter-
nate channels are included with files imported
into Pro Tools from field recorders.
Expanding Alternate Takes to New
Playlists
Expanding alternate takes to new playlists read-
ily facilitates track compositing. Once you have
expanded alternate takes to new playlists on a
track, you can audition and edit them in Play-
lists view to assemble the best takes in the main
playlist.
To expand alternate takes to new playlists:
1 Identify the region on the main playlist with
matching alternate regions (takes).
2 Do one of the following:
• Right-click the region and choose Matches
> Expand Alternates To New Playlists.
• If the region is selected, with the Selector
tool, Control-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac) anywhere on the se-
lected region and choose Matches > Expand
Alternates To New Playlists.
• If the region is not selected, with the Selec-
tor tool, Control-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac) at the precise begin-
ning of the loop or punch range and
choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New
Playlists.
All matching alternate regions are copied to new
playlists on the track. To view all playlists for the
track, select Playlists view. In any track view,
you can also select any available alternate play-
list as the main playlist from the Playlist selec-
tor.
Expanding Alternate Takes to New
Tracks
Expanding alternate takes to new tracks readily
facilitates auditioning, editing, and mixing al-
ternate takes, each on separate tracks.
To expand alternate takes to new tracks:
1 Identify the region on the main playlist with
matching alternate regions (takes).
2 Do one of the following:
• Right-click the region and choose Matches
> Expand Alternates To New Tracks.
• If the region is selected, with the Selector
tool, Control-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac) anywhere on the se-
lected region and choose Matches > Expand
Alternates To New Tracks.
• If the region is not selected, with the Selec-
tor tool, Control-click (Windows) or
Command-click (Mac) at the precise begin-
ning of the loop or punch range and
choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New
Tracks.
3 Then choose one of the following from the Ex-
pand Alternates To New Tracks sub-menu:
By Track Name Names all new tracks after the
source track name.
By Region Name Names each new tracks after
the corresponding original region names that
you see in the Matches list.