ProTools 6.9 out
Version 6.9 of DigiDesign ProTools is out. And I’m using the occasion to ask: Why isn’t it possible to see several graphs for a track at the same time in ProTools? I must have mailed DigiDesign this feature wish 20 times the last 10 years.
If you’re looking at a volume graph in ProTools, you can’t see the pan graph at the same time. Or if you are keyframing parameters in an eq, you can’t see the graphs for all the parameters at the same time. It’s so lame. Work one hour in After Effects or Motion or almost any program that deals with keyframes on a timeline, and you’ll see how lame ProTools is on this thing.
Try this: Grab a DV-camera and have someone run in front of you, starting on the lawn outside the house, into the front door, trough a long narrow hall, into a big livingroom, then a kitchen, and out on the lawn again, screaming all the way, all in one take. Then replace the original sound (which includes your own feet tramping) with a new scream from the studio. Then add the right eq and reverb etc. on the whole take, to make it realistic.
It’s a total mess in ProTools.
You have to change between the different graphs about 8 000 times. I once discussed this with a DigiDesign representative, and aske why they don’t adobt the multiple graph approach that graphics and video applications have. All I got was a answer like “people are used to doing it this way”. Oh, then leave it the way it is.
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