Opening a Project with Plug-Ins Deactivated
Pro Tools | First lets you open a project with all of the plug-ins set to inactive. Since projects with a lot of plug-ins can take a long time to load, this lets you quickly open any project for immediate visual inspection and audio playback (without plug-ins). If it is the project that you want to work with, you can easily reopen the project with plug-ins activated.
To open a project with all plug-ins set to inactive:
1. Choose File > Open Project.
2. In the Open panel of the Dashboard dialog, locate and select the project you want.
3. Shift-click Open.
To re-open the same project with all plug-ins set to active, do one of the following:
Choose
File > Revert To Saved.
Choose
File > Open Recent and select the most recent project in the submenu.
Press Control+Shift+O (Windows) or Command+Shift+O (Mac) to open the most recent project.
Instead of reverting to the saved version of the project to open it with all plug-ins active, you can simply make an individual plug-in active by Command-Control-clicking (Mac) or Control-Start-clicking (Windows) it. To make an entire row of plug-ins active, Command-Option-Control-click (Mac) Control-Alt-Start-click (Windows) any plug-in in the row of inserts.