Expanding Alternate Takes to New Tracks
Pro Tools lets you copy alternate takes to new 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 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 track 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.