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5 When you’re finished, stop playback using any method (Spacebar, K, Stop button, third-
party or Fairlight audio control panel). Automation recording stops as well. Displayed
automation turns green once recording has stopped.
If you don’t like what you’ve done, you can undo and start over, or you can edit the
automation using methods described later in this chapter. Or, you can back the
playhead up and overwrite automation at any time with new automation.
Automation Preview Mode
Preview is an additional mix automation workflow, specifically for working across scene-based
material. When enabled, mix items that are in preview are not controlled by pre-recorded
automation, so they respond manually to their controls. These can subsequently be placed into
write (or trim) to write actual automation.
Typically, Preview mode is used to audition new mix settings for one particular section of a
timeline, while other sections already have recorded automation data. Preview mode prevents
pre-recorded automation from moving the controls the user is trying to adjust in the targeted
section. As soon as the user is happy with the new adjustments, they can be written to the
targeted section.
Preview mode frees the faders (and other controls) from automation control, and lets you move
them while you experiment with different levels and settings. Ordinarily, moving one or more
controls implies writing automation data for those controls, but entering Preview mode lets you
play with the controls as much as you like without committing to anything, only writing
automation data when you’re ready.
To engage the Preview state on enabled mix items, first enter Preview mode
by doing one of the following:
Toggle Preview in the Automation toolbar.
Press the Preview key on the Mix page of the Fairlight controller.
Once Preview is engaged:
Individual parameters can be switched into Preview Touch Latch.
You can use the AUTO key next to a fader to preview all enabled parameters
on a channel.
You can use the Auto button on the screen mixer strips.
When you’re in Preview mode, all parameters in Preview are indicated by a BLUE
automation indicator.
Once in Preview mode, mix items can be placed into write (or trim) by:
Dropping in manually via the “Punch In” menu item.
Dropping in manually with the In key on the Fairlight controller.
Automatically using the Active In and Out points on the Fairlight controller.
Once enabled for Preview, parameters remain in that state regardless of transport
starts and stops. This is different from putting mix items into WRITE, which must be
done again after each transport stop.
Other Preview-related operations include:
Filling a range defined by In and Out points with all parameters currently in Preview.
Gliding all parameters from their existing values at the Range In point to the Preview
values at the Range Out point.
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