Pasting Pro Tools Automation

Video Transcript

"The next thing I'm going to show is really about pasting automation. Now pasting automation is, you can actually take a piece of automation, copy it, bring it up, and then place it somewhere else. This is helpful if you have multiple hooks and you have multiple verses that needed the same part, kind of effected the same way. This is very helpful in the whole process of mixing it. It definitely makes the whole process easier. So what I could do is actually take this part, make sure it's on my grid, and copy these four bars, pressing Apple C, or pressing edit copy. Once this is copied I could look at the rest of my track, now looking at the rest of my track I see there's definitely another part right here. I'm going to highlight all four of these tracks to make sure that I allow all four tracks of automation to sit over this. Once that's all set I press Apple V, and it'll copy, it'll paste right over what I've already had. I could do the same thing and repeat this for any of the measures that I want. I could put it over the rest of the hooks that I have here, but I could also put it over another area that maybe not even be in the same exact spot, like I can actually bring it over here, put it over my verse if I wanted to."