Expanding Alternate Takes to New Playlists or Tracks

Pro Tools lets you copy alternate takes to new playlists or tracks. This is especially useful for auditioning, editing, and mixing multiple alternate takes or channels. Alternate takes are created when punch and loop recording.

Expanding Alternate Takes to New Playlists

Expanding alternate takes to new playlists readily facilitates track compositing. Once you have expanded alternate takes to new playlists on a track, you can audition and edit them in Playlists view to assemble the best takes in the main playlist.

To expand alternate takes to new playlists:

1 Identify the clip on the main playlist with matching alternate clips (takes).

2 Do one of the following:

Right-click the clip and choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New Playlists.

If the clip is selected, with the Selector tool, Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) anywhere on the selected clip and choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New Playlists.

If the clip is not selected, with the Selector tool, Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) at the precise beginning of the loop or punch range and choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New Playlists.

All matching alternate clips 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 playlist as the main playlist from the Playlist selector. For more information, see Playlists View.

Expanding Alternate Takes to New Tracks

Expanding alternate takes to new tracks readily facilitates auditioning, editing, and mixing alternate takes, each on separate tracks.

To expand alternate takes to new tracks:

1 Identify the clip on the main playlist with matching alternate clips (takes).

2 Do one of the following:

Right-click the clip and choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New Tracks.

If the clip is selected, with the Selector tool, Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) anywhere on the selected clip and choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New Tracks.

If the clip is not selected, with the Selector tool, Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) at the precise beginning of the loop or punch range and choose Matches > Expand Alternates To New Tracks.

3 Then choose one of the following from the Expand Alternates To New Tracks sub-menu:

By Track Name

Names all new tracks after the source track name.

By Clip Name

Names each new tracks after the corresponding original clip names that you see in the Matches list.

By Track and Clip Name

Names all new tracks after the source track name, but with the corresponding original clip names in parenthesis.

All matching alternate clips are copied to new tracks.