Copying Alternate Playlists to the Main Playlist

Once you have found a selection in an alternate playlist that you want to use in the main playlist, copy and paste the selection to the main playlist. In this way you can construct the best combination of selections from alternate playlists.

In addition to manually copying and then pasting to the main playlist, Pro Tools provides several commands for copying and pasting the selection to the main playlist:

Copy Selection To Main Playlist

Copies and pastes the selection to the main playlist. Any material already on the main playlist at the same location is overwritten.

Copy Selection to New Playlist

Creates a new, empty main playlist and copies and pastes the selection to the new main playlist

Copy Selection to Duplicate Playlist

Duplicates the current main playlist and copies and pastes the selection to the duplicate of the main playlist. The previous main playlist moves to a new Playlist lane.

To copy a selection in an alternate playlist to the main playlist:

1 In Playlists view, make a selection in an alternate playlist.

 

Making a selection in an alternate playlist

2 Do one of the following:

Click the Copy Selection To Main Playlist button in the Playlist Lane controls.

Choose Edit > Copy Selection to Main Playlist.

Right-click the selection and choose Copy Selection To Main Playlist.

Press Alt+Start+V (Windows) or Option+Control+V (Mac) to copy the selection to the main playlist.

The selection from the alternate playlist is copied to the same time location in the main playlist.

To copy a selection in an alternate playlist to a new main playlist:

1 In Playlists view, make a selection in an alternate playlist.

2 Choose Edit > Copy Selection to New Playlist.

To copy a selection in an alternate playlist to a duplicate of the main playlist:

1 In Playlists view, make a selection in an alternate playlist.

2 Choose Edit > Copy Selection to Duplicate Playlist.