3 Replies Latest reply: Mar 24, 2014 7:56 AM by ALLENT RSS

    Hiding & Making tracks inactive in AUDITION... i.e. PROTOOLS

    ALLENT Community Member

      I am just learning and starting to work with Audition CC (long time protools user), and loaded some OMF files into Audition (with REF video), and once I pull all my dialog (from the OMF's) to my dialog tracks I want to close/hide and make those original OMF tracks inactive, just like you can in protools (so you don't have a bunch of tracks open that are not in use).  Please tell me this is an option in AUDITION, becuase if it is NOT, this program is virtual useless when it comes to PRO-LEVEL sound designing???  HELP!

        • 1. Re: Hiding & Making tracks inactive in AUDITION... i.e. PROTOOLS
          SuiteSpot Community Member

          I'm pretty sure that hiding tracks in its self does not make a 'PRO-LEVEL' sound application and in fact there are many users on this forum that have been using Audition in all its many versions at the 'PRO-LEVEL'

           

          While the ability to 'hide' tracks is not currently available you can certainly mute them or alternatively send them all to a bus and just mute the bus.

           

          If hiding tracks is paramount to your workflow then unfortunately you will be dissapointed at this point in time.

          • 2. Re: Hiding & Making tracks inactive in AUDITION... i.e. PROTOOLS
            SteveG(AudioMasters) Community Member

            Also, you can easily set tracks to off-line, simply by closing them in the session. They remain as unlinked tracks, but it's easy to relink them if necessary.

             

            Audition is in use at the 'PRO-LEVEL' (?) as the sound design tool of choice in just about every radio station in the world. And the thing about 'PRO-LEVEL' users is that generally they find the strengths in things, and workarounds for the weaknesses where they can. What they don't do is write them off as useless at the first sign of a potential issue. Just saying...

            • 3. Re: Hiding & Making tracks inactive in AUDITION... i.e. PROTOOLS
              ALLENT Community Member

              Guys, don't get me wrong, I am a huge proponent of moving to an ALL ADOBE workflow.  I have completely made the switch to PremPro (after a long stint with FINAL CUT).  I am completely happy with this change as PP is a better program, utilizing much more updated technology.  I am learning and trying to utilize SpeedGrade with its awesome DIRECT LINK (but it does appear to have some limitations), and I am currently working on a viable workaround to those.  Over the past couple of weeks I have been "cramming" an extensive education on AUDITION (and I LOVE most aspects of it).  I do feature film sound design so it is imparitive that I am working on a "robust" program (and for the most part I am seeing good things with Audition).  But, when I typically work with a team of 4 to 5 different people contributing to the sound design (i.e. guys that are sending me Background sessions, Foley Sessions, dialog editing, Music/Score etc..etc), I have to import tons of tracks that are then analysed and discected in PROTOOLS (using just the parts we deem worthy to "make the final product").  Therefore (once we pull the appropriate parts from those external sessions) I can end up with 40-60 "dead" tracks  inside my MASTER MIX session, and for many reasons I have to be able to hide and make these "dead" tracks INACTIVE!  They will "kill" your session if you do NOT, they are a huge drain on the processors (creaing latency), and they are extremely hard to work around in your edit window (and moving them all to the bottom of the edit window is not a good option).  That was my first thought as a "work-around" in AUDITION.  I appologize for my mis-communication regarding AUDITION being a PRO-LEVEL product, as you have pointed out that it is used in RADIO, but I was specifically referring to feature film "SOUND DESIGN". STEVE G I am not "writing off" AUDITION at all, I want to use it and I am very interested to hear more about your idea of setting tracks to "off-line", I did try closing tracks in my "FILES" window, but once I did the files just disappeared from my session??? I do need the abillity to bring these "dead tracks"  back into the session at various times (i.e. "make active"), so I am a bit confused on this issue.  Any help you can push my way would be very appreciated.  Again, I want to use AUDITION, and will keep working on ways to do so.  But I need a solution to the very fundamental problem of not being able to hide (and make inactive) tracks for the work I do, it is a must for me before I can make the switch.  BTW... I have put in a request for new features to ADOBE.