Just a reminder that this week we have John Perry, who is a vocal producer, arranger and singer.

He has worked with some top names, including The Beatles (he is bottom right in the shot) and has a wide range of experience in many styles.

Let us have your questions before Monday and we’ll try and fit them into the show.

12:54 am  •  10 March 2012  •  View comments

Last night I headed down the the Sun and Thirteen Cantons pub in Soho, London, to meet up with fellow Pro Tools devotees and the Avid gang.

It was a great evening, with FREE booze all night on Avid, great snack food too (although it did scupper my attempts to get Max Gutnik to my favourite Indian restaurant) and a lot of fun and laughter.

There was a small amount of time set aside for Max Gutnik and David Gould to take questions from those who wished to ask them, but most of the evening was an informal gathering. There was a great representation from both sides of the Atlantic from Avid.

I spent about an hour talking with Tim Claman, Avid Chief Technology Officer - not about the inner workings of Avid, or why Pro Tools 10 isn’t 64 bit, but about our first mobile phone and summer holidays as kids. I know other people were having similar conversations.

This, I think was the best part of the evening, for Avid to spend time with the people that use their products and for all of us to realise, that neither group has two heads and an awful lot in common. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I think anything that gives us all time to understand one another a little better has to be a good thing. I’m now also acutely aware of how far my fun parody pictures of senior Avid Execs travel within the Avid network, now I have a pile of requests to fulfil!

12:54 am  •  10 March 2012  •  View comments

I had another example today where a clients session would not find the media even though they were clearly there on a connected drive. Even when I directed the Relink window only to look in the correct folder Pro tools still wouldn’t find them, and then I remembered the old Force Relink trick and so here it is for you as well…

1. Open the session with the relinking problems
2. Skip the ‘automatic find’ options as you will already at the point where these haven’t worked for you.
3. Once the session opens, there will be, of course, a number of sky blue regions denoting media Pro Tools can’t find.
4. Go into the Window menu and select Project Browser. 
5. In the Project Browser go into the session’s audio files folder and select an audio file you want Pro Tools to relink by force. 
6. Go into the Toolbox menu and select Relink, this will put that file into the Relink window.
7. Now open the Workspace Browser from the Window menu and find the file you would like Pro Tools to link to but for some reason it can’t find. 
8. Drag that file into the Candidates section of the Relink window. 
9. Click on Relink button to the left of the file in the Candidates section and then click on the Commit button at the top of the Relink window and the file will be relinked and very quickly the blue regions relating to that audio file will regain their normal look.
10. If the file you relinked was not inside the session folder you might want to consider using this final step to fix it. In the Project Browser select the relinked file and from the Toolbox menu select Copy and Relink. This will get Pro Tools to make a copy of the audio file and put it into the session’s audio file folder and link to that copy rather than the file somewhere else on the system. It is always safer to have all your audio files inside the session’s audio files folder.

12:54 am  •  10 March 2012  •  2 notes  •  View comments

I had another example today where a clients session would not find the media even though they were clearly there on a connected drive. Even when I directed the Relink window only to look in the correct folder Pro tools still wouldn’t find them, and then I remembered the old Force Relink trick and so here it is for you as well…

1. Open the session with the relinking problems
2. Skip the ‘automatic find’ options as you will already at the point where these haven’t worked for you.
3. Once the session opens, there will be, of course, a number of sky blue regions denoting media Pro Tools can’t find.
4. Go into the Window menu and select Project Browser. 
5. In the Project Browser go into the session’s audio files folder and select an audio file you want Pro Tools to relink by force. 
6. Go into the Toolbox menu and select Relink, this will put that file into the Relink window.
7. Now open the Workspace Browser from the Window menu and find the file you would like Pro Tools to link to but for some reason it can’t find. 
8. Drag that file into the Candidates section of the Relink window. 
9. Click on Relink button to the left of the file in the Candidates section and then click on the Commit button at the top of the Relink window and the file will be relinked and very quickly the blue regions relating to that audio file will regain their normal look.
10. If the file you relinked was not inside the session folder you might want to consider using this final step to fix it. In the Project Browser select the relinked file and from the Toolbox menu select Copy and Relink. This will get Pro Tools to make a copy of the audio file and put it into the session’s audio file folder and link to that copy rather than the file somewhere else on the system. It is always safer to have all your audio files inside the session’s audio files folder.

10:56 pm  •  9 March 2012  •  5 notes  •  View comments

Last night I headed down the the Sun and Thirteen Cantons pub in Soho, London, to meet up with fellow Pro Tools devotees and the Avid gang.

It was a great evening, with FREE booze all night on Avid, great snack food too (although it did scupper my attempts to get Max Gutnik to my favourite Indian restaurant) and a lot of fun and laughter.

There was a small amount of time set aside for Max Gutnik and David Gould to take questions from those who wished to ask them, but most of the evening was an informal gathering. There was a great representation from both sides of the Atlantic from Avid.

I spent about an hour talking with Tim Claman, Avid Chief Technology Officer - not about the inner workings of Avid, or why Pro Tools 10 isn’t 64 bit, but about our first mobile phone and summer holidays as kids. I know other people were having similar conversations.

This, I think was the best part of the evening, for Avid to spend time with the people that use their products and for all of us to realise, that neither group has two heads and an awful lot in common. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I think anything that gives us all time to understand one another a little better has to be a good thing. I’m now also acutely aware of how far my fun parody pictures of senior Avid Execs travel within the Avid network, now I have a pile of requests to fulfil!

10:56 pm  •  9 March 2012  •  View comments

Just a reminder that this week we have John Perry, who is a vocal producer, arranger and singer.

He has worked with some top names, including The Beatles (he is bottom right in the shot) and has a wide range of experience in many styles.

Let us have your questions before Monday and we’ll try and fit them into the show.

10:56 pm  •  9 March 2012  •  View comments

I had another example today where a clients session would not find the media even though they were clearly there on a connected drive. Even when I directed the Relink window only to look in the correct folder Pro tools still wouldn’t find them, and then I remembered the old Force Relink trick and so here it is for you as well…

1. Open the session with the relinking problems
2. Skip the ‘automatic find’ options as you will already at the point where these haven’t worked for you.
3. Once the session opens, there will be, of course, a number of sky blue regions denoting media Pro Tools can’t find.
4. Go into the Window menu and select Project Browser. 
5. In the Project Browser go into the session’s audio files folder and select an audio file you want Pro Tools to relink by force. 
6. Go into the Toolbox menu and select Relink, this will put that file into the Relink window.
7. Now open the Workspace Browser from the Window menu and find the file you would like Pro Tools to link to but for some reason it can’t find. 
8. Drag that file into the Candidates section of the Relink window. 
9. Click on Relink button to the left of the file in the Candidates section and then click on the Commit button at the top of the Relink window and the file will be relinked and very quickly the blue regions relating to that audio file will regain their normal look.
10. If the file you relinked was not inside the session folder you might want to consider using this final step to fix it. In the Project Browser select the relinked file and from the Toolbox menu select Copy and Relink. This will get Pro Tools to make a copy of the audio file and put it into the session’s audio file folder and link to that copy rather than the file somewhere else on the system. It is always safer to have all your audio files inside the session’s audio files folder.

8:56 pm  •  9 March 2012  •  View comments

Last night I headed down the the Sun and Thirteen Cantons pub in Soho, London, to meet up with fellow Pro Tools devotees and the Avid gang.

It was a great evening, with FREE booze all night on Avid, great snack food too (although it did scupper my attempts to get Max Gutnik to my favourite Indian restaurant) and a lot of fun and laughter.

There was a small amount of time set aside for Max Gutnik and David Gould to take questions from those who wished to ask them, but most of the evening was an informal gathering. There was a great representation from both sides of the Atlantic from Avid.

I spent about an hour talking with Tim Claman, Avid Chief Technology Officer - not about the inner workings of Avid, or why Pro Tools 10 isn’t 64 bit, but about our first mobile phone and summer holidays as kids. I know other people were having similar conversations.

This, I think was the best part of the evening, for Avid to spend time with the people that use their products and for all of us to realise, that neither group has two heads and an awful lot in common. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I think anything that gives us all time to understand one another a little better has to be a good thing. I’m now also acutely aware of how far my fun parody pictures of senior Avid Execs travel within the Avid network, now I have a pile of requests to fulfil!

8:56 pm  •  9 March 2012  •  View comments

Just a reminder that this week we have John Perry, who is a vocal producer, arranger and singer.

He has worked with some top names, including The Beatles (he is bottom right in the shot) and has a wide range of experience in many styles.

Let us have your questions before Monday and we’ll try and fit them into the show.

8:56 pm  •  9 March 2012  •  View comments

Last night I headed down the the Sun and Thirteen Cantons pub in Soho, London, to meet up with fellow Pro Tools devotees and the Avid gang.

It was a great evening, with FREE booze all night on Avid, great snack food too (although it did scupper my attempts to get Max Gutnik to my favourite Indian restaurant) and a lot of fun and laughter.

There was a small amount of time set aside for Max Gutnik and David Gould to take questions from those who wished to ask them, but most of the evening was an informal gathering. There was a great representation from both sides of the Atlantic from Avid.

I spent about an hour talking with Tim Claman, Avid Chief Technology Officer - not about the inner workings of Avid, or why Pro Tools 10 isn’t 64 bit, but about our first mobile phone and summer holidays as kids. I know other people were having similar conversations.

This, I think was the best part of the evening, for Avid to spend time with the people that use their products and for all of us to realise, that neither group has two heads and an awful lot in common. Perhaps I’m wrong, but I think anything that gives us all time to understand one another a little better has to be a good thing. I’m now also acutely aware of how far my fun parody pictures of senior Avid Execs travel within the Avid network, now I have a pile of requests to fulfil!

6:55 pm  •  9 March 2012  •  View comments