FR: Multiple Clip Gains

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

Not sure if this is already a thing that can be done but if more than one clip is selected I would have expected to be able to apply multiple clip gains at the same time but it only works on the one you have your mouse over. Which means you can only do one at a time which seems a bit restrictive. 

 

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

5 hours ago, Lord Tim said:

This feels bug-ish to me, honestly. It's a weird limitation.

Wow thanks...It's awesome that you even know that - it's pretty obscure ?

Maybe we can pass this idea on to @msmcleod for consideration in an update to make it more streamlined and intuitive.

[David Baay]

Works without jumping through any hoops here if I lasso-select (right-click+drag) the multiple clip gain envelopes (use Ctrl to add non-adjacent clips to the selection).

[msmcleod]

The subtlety here is the difference in the type of selection.

When you lasso select, you're selecting the nodes ( which are a UI representation of the underlying envelope shapes in the envelope stream ), whereas when you do a time range selection, it's selecting a time range selection of the clip envelope streams themselves.

The envelope code treats the two selections in a completely different way.

I suspect this will not be an easy one to fix, but worth looking into.

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

4 hours ago, David Baay said:

Works without jumping through any hoops here if I lasso-select (right-click+drag) the multiple clip gain envelopes (use Ctrl to add non-adjacent clips to the selection).

I can't get it to work the way I think it would / should.  Any animated Gifs might help

 

 

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

3 hours ago, msmcleod said:

I suspect this will not be an easy one to fix, but worth looking into.

Am I right in thinking that currently it's not possible to change multiple clip gains simultaneously from the track's "clips" mode ? I can only get it to do one at a time.

Only by changing it to " Clip Automation - Gain " does it seem to let me change multiple clips gains together.

  

[David Baay]

32 minutes ago, Mark MoreThan-Shaw said:

Am I right in thinking that currently it's not possible to change multiple clip gains simultaneously from the track's "clips" mode ? I can only get it to do one at a time.

Only by changing it to " Clip Automation - Gain " does it seem to let me change multiple clips gains together.

Yes, I'm switching the Edit Filter to Clip Gain first by Shift+clicking one of the envelopes.  I did not consider that a 'hoop' ;^) 

[Mark Morgon-Shaw]

On 3/4/2022 at 10:58 PM, David Baay said:

Yes, I'm switching the Edit Filter to Clip Gain first by Shift+clicking one of the envelopes.  I did not consider that a 'hoop' ;^) 

Ahh okay...my point was if you can change one clip gain at a time and remain in Clips mode then it doesn't seem logical that you can't do it to a multiple selection of them .

The main reason it came up is my Pro Tools using friend is switching to CBB as he can't justify the cost of updating Pro Tools, and he was a Sonar user many years back.

But basically  he thought it was a fairly standard thing to want to do and there's no faffing with track modes it PT you can just do it....and I think he makes a good point.

 

[msmcleod]

Alternatively, there is the "Toggle Track/Clip Gain in the Edit Filter"  keyboard shortcut. 

This toggles between what the edit filter is currently set to, and Clip Gain Automation so you can quickly switch back and forth.

I normally bind this to '\' as it's right next to SHIFT on a UK keyboard.