Pro Tools 11 - #12 - Link Track and Edit Selection Video Lecture | Pro tools Tutorial: Basics to Expert - Video & Sound Editing

hello this is music tech help guy and
welcome to episode 12 of my Pro Tools 11
video tutorial series in this episode
we're gonna continue looking at some of
our different editing functions here
that are below our edit tools and in the
previous video we took a look at the
link timeline and edit selection in this
video we're going to take a look at the
link track and edit selection function
now the basics of what this function
does is it links whatever selection you
have on a track with the track itself so
if I decide to highlight the green track
down here it actually selects that track
if I select this area it highlights that
track so the track selection will follow
whatever selection you make out on the
timeline likewise if I drag over a
selection on the timeline and I hold
command and slip select other tracks it
will move that selection down along
along with the track selection by the
way if you want to deselect tracks you
just hold option and click and it D
selects all of your tracks or alt on a
PC now the way you have to do this with
the linked track and edit selection off
is you highlight an area you hold shift
and then click on the tracks that you
want to make that edit selection but it
doesn't link the tracks along with it
notice that none of the tracks are
highlighted so why is this really why is
this useful or why is it really matter
well in some specific situations where
we're working with playlists or doing
playlist tracking and playlist editing
there are some advantages to having it
on and having it off just to give you a
quick example again I'm sort of jumping
ahead because we're not going to talk
about playlist tracking until a few more
videos down the road but let's say that
I had this this on and I was making it
edit up here and maybe I wanted to
playlist this track
so I'll click on the track right and
let's say I do some editing up here and
then I realize oh I want to playlist
this I actually to go back and click on
this and use my playlist function which
is ctrl backslash to put it in a new
playlist if you turn this if you turn
the link track and edit selection off
this track will continue to be
highlighted and any key commands that
you send it will go to it regardless of
what I do on another track so I can come
up here do some edits do some
highlighting do some selecting but still
if I hit ctrl backslash to playlist the
track that that key command is going to
go to the track that's highlighted so
you can end it you can separate your
edits from maybe where your shortcuts or
your key commands are going to now I
realize this is a bit you know this is
not something you guys probably fully
understand at this point because it's
not something we've done yet in this
series but just to give you another
quick example if I have the link track
and edit selection on I can drag over
say four bars here hold command and
click on as many tracks as I want by you
know and they don't have to be in a
series either I'm gonna skip the green
track here hit command C to copy just
these three selections
then I click somewhere else select those
same three tracks and hit command V to
paste you can still do this even with
the link track and edit selection off
you just have to go about it a little
bit differently drag over the selection
hold shift and click on the the clips
that you want to select hit command C
hope by holding shift just clicking on
the the clips that you want to paste in
and hit command V to paste so it's it's
a very similar function is there's two
different ways to do it so this is why I
said it's it's not the end of the world
whether you had this on or off for the
most part it's I just like to leave it
on most of the time but when we get a
little deeper into this series and start
talking about playlist editing and
playlist tracking it will become useful
at certain times to keep it off and
useful at other times to keep it on so I
just wanted to give you a quick overview
of what the link track in its selection
really does just so it's not a complete
shock to you guys later
so I hope you enjoyed this video and
thanks for watching