Pro Tools LE

- Fixed: When Monitoring All Inputs on 003 Factory, Random Pops and Clicks Could Occur on Inputs 4-8 (Item #101084)
Although this is not likely to occur on 003 Rack, this update is recommended for both 003 Factory (console) and 003 Rack

- Fixed: Pro Tools Automation Thinning Could Sometimes Remove Non-Redundant Breakpoints (Item #100794)
The thinning algorithm could mistakenly classify a breakpoint as redundant

Requirements
Mac OS X "Tiger" Only

Pro ToolsŪ 7.4.2 software provides Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard compatibility to Pro Tools 7.4 HD, LE, and M-Powered owners. Pro Tools 7.4.2 software requires Mac OS X 10.5.3. If you have an earlier version of Leopard, you will need to update your Mac OS using the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Combo Update before installing Pro Tools 7.4.2.

Requirements
PT LE 7.4
Mac OS X 10.5.3

- Added: Expand to New Tracks by Time Code Only (Item # 102582)
The new Expand To New Tracks By Time Code Only feature lets you expand a track or selected region to new tracks, revealing all other regions recorded at the same time code location, regardless of channel name or number. Please Note: Time code features in Pro Tools LE require optional purchase of DV Toolkit 2.

- Background
This feature is useful when expanding edited guide tracks to original source audio which was recorded while referenced to time code, but channel names or numbers were not written to the audio files. For example, when a live concert is recorded in Pro Tools, then a guide audio track is edited along with the video, then the edited guide track is returned to Pro Tools and needs to be expanded to the original source tracks for mixing.

- Additional Information
Please see the "Expand to New Tracks by Time Code Only Read Me" included with the download for important additional information, including:
Typical Workflow
Relinking the Original Unedited Guide Track
Known Limitations with Expand to New Tracks by Time Code

Requirements
PT LE 7.4

Pro ToolsŪ 7.4.2pr software is a pre-release version of Pro Tools software that provides expanded Mac OS X 10.5.3 Leopard compatibility to Pro Tools 7.4 HD, LE, and M-Powered users. Pro Tools 7.4.2pr software requires Mac OS X 10.5.3, and is not compatible with earlier versions of Leopard.

Please Note: This software is not fully tested or supported and we recommend backing up your system and work files before installing

Requirements
PT LE 7.4
Mac OS X 10.5.3

- Fixed: The following error is generated when selecting a 256 + comment in the Workspace: "The value contained too many characters; previous value substituted". (Item# 100604)

- Fixed: WAV Files Containing Non-English Characters Are Not Visible In Pro Tools 7.4, and Can Be Corrupted if Edited (Item #100502)
Although the file comments are invisible in the DigiBase comments field, clicking in that field will delete all of the comments
This only affects non-BWF WAV files
This CS version restores the visibility of WAV file comments, as long as the field wasn't clicked in using earlier versions of Pro Tools 7.4

- Fixed: Only the First 16 MIDI Inputs Are Available In The MIDI Input Enable Window (Item #76712)
Window cannot be resized, scroll bar doesn't access other MIDI inputs

- Fixed: MIDI Playback Timing Could Become Erratic as H/W Buffer Size Increased (Item #100756)
This problem started in Pro Tools LE 7.4 for Mac OS X

- Fixed: A QuickTime Movie Played Using Mojo or Mojo SDI Could Jump Out of Sync (Item #100497)
This would only occur if playback crossed 35min-45 seconds from the session start

Requirements
PT LE 7.4

- Fixed: When Monitoring All Inputs on 003 Factory, Random Pops and Clicks Could Occur on Inputs 4-8 (Item #101084)
Although this is not likely to occur on 003 Rack, this update is recommended for both 003 Factory (console) and 003 Rack

- Fixed: Pro Tools Automation Thinning Could Sometimes Remove Non-Redundant Breakpoints (Item #100794)
The thinning algorithm could mistakenly classify a breakpoint as redundant

- Fixed: Certain Third Party Products Could Cause Pro Tools to crash (Item #100661)
Celemony Melodyne and AudioEase Snapper would cause a crash with tick-based regions (introduced in Pro Tools 7.4)

- Fixed: Mojo - PAL QuickTime or MXF Movies Could Stutter or Display in Black and White (Item #101047)
This resulted from Mojo getting "stuck" in NTSC mode even when Pro Tools was set to PAL

- Fixed: Scrubbing Avid Video on the Computer Monitor Would Resize the Picture (Item #100657)

Requirements
PT LE 7.4

- Fixed: Pro Tools quits unexpectedly when moving a plug-in window while closing it from a control surface (Item #99442)
If a plug-in window was closed from a control surface while the plug-in window was being dragged across the screen, Pro Tools would quit unexpectedly.

- Fixed: Opening a Session with an RTAS Version of Dynamics III Could Result in a Burst of Noise (Item #99562)
This problem was intermittent.

- Fixed: Track Color Coding Saturation Was Not Adjustable (Item #94474)
Functionality is now the same as in Pro Tools 7.3.x

- Fixed: Opening a Session with an RTAS Version of Dynamics III Could Result in a Burst of Noise (Item #99562)
This problem was intermittent

- Fixed: Errors Resulting From Importing Certain Files Using Soundminer (Item #100028)
File names using an ellipsis (...) would cause the error, "Unable to create a new audio file on drive "xxx" for track "xxx" because I/O error (-36)."

- Fixed: QuickTime Movies Would Cease to Play out Avid Video Peripherals After File Import (Item #100299)
This would occur after importing audio files from the Workspace Browser

- Fixed: Quantizing Grouped Elastic Audio Tracks Produces Some Inaccurate Transient Placement (Item #100013)
Transients could be placed either before or after grid lines

- Fixed: User Can Only Promote the Confidence of an Event Marker by Moving it (Item #100378)
Clicking on any Event marker will now raise its internal confidence rating to 100%, thus preventing the marker from being removed when the Event Sensitivity setting is lowered within the Elastic Properties window

- Fixed: Using Render or Commit With "Rhythmic" Algorithm Can Produce Artifacts at End of Files (Item #100420)
This would usually occur when using extreme amounts of stretching

- Fixed: Elastic Time Warp Markers Could Move After Quantizing (Item #100423)
Quantizing a selected area could cause markers outside that selection to move

Requirements
PT LE 7.4

Fixed: Pro Tools quits unexpectedly when moving a plug-in window while closing it from a control surface (Item #99442)
If a plug-in window was closed from a control surface while the plug-in window was being dragged across the screen, Pro Tools would quit unexpectedly.

Requirements
PT LE 7.4

Elastic Audio for Real-Time and Rendered Time Compression and Expansion
- Elastic audio tracks:
Real-time
Rendered

- Optimized analysis and Time Compression and Expansion (TCE) algorithms for polyphonic, monophonic, and rhythmic material

- Varispeed resampling algorithm to link time and pitch changes

- Ability to automatically conform imported audio (AIFF, WAV, BWF, REX, and ACID files) from DigiBase or from the Desktop to local session tempo

- Ability to automatically conform audio to tempo changes on tick-based Elastic Audio tracks

- New Track Views:
Warp track view for detailed Elastic Audio editing
Analysis track view for advanced Elastic Audio analysis editing

- Elastic Properties window for audio regions on Elastic Audio-enabled tracks

- DigiBase support of Elastic Audio:
Ability to preview files in DigiBase browsers at the session tempo
Ability to preview audio in DigiBase browsers in tandem with session playback
Elastic Audio plug-in selector for preview and import
Create Elastic Audio Analysis command for batch analyzing files in DigiBase
Clear Elastic Audio Analysis command

- Ability to quantize audio

Miscellaneous Pro Tools Features and
Enhancements
- Playback Engine enhancements for Elastic Audio and sampler instrument plug-ins (such as Structure):
DAE Playback Buffer Size now includes values in milliseconds
Cache Size for determining amount of memory DAE allocates to pre-buffer audio for playback and looping when using Elastic Audio
Plug-in Streaming Buffer Size for determining amount of memory DAE allocates for sample playback with sampler plug-ins
"Optimize for Streaming Content" option for improved playback of sampler plug-in samples located on your audio drive

- Separate CPU (RTAS) and CPU (Elastic) meters in System Usage window

- New Editing preferences:
Changes to Fades Editing preference
New Warp/Notes Track View in Zoom Toggle section

- New Processing preferences:
Import REX Files as Region Groups preference and Automatically Create Fades option
Drag and Drop From Desktop Conforms to Session Tempo preferences
Elastic Audio options

- General session, track, and plug-in features:
Click menu command renamed to Click/Countoff
Event Menu commands renamed
Time Shift field (in Time Shift plug-in) renamed to Speed
Waveform height for new and imported tracks follows default waveform height setting
Save Session Copy In dialog updated with options to Limit Character Set and to not copy Elastic Audio Rendered Files
Missing Files dialog updated with option to Regenerate Missing Rendered Files Without Searching

- Miscellaneous DigiBase features:
Ability to toggle between Loop Preview and Normal Preview during file preview
Preview button Right-click menu for previewing files
Ability to preview one or both channels of
a split stereo file
Volume control for previewed files
Meter display and clip indicators for previewed files
Look Ahead typing for DigiBase searches

- Language compatibility features and enhancements:
Entry and display of any language characters supported in Unicode
Ability to search across multiple languages in DigiBase
New Display preference sets language for Pro Tools application, making it possible to run one language version on a different localized version of Windows
New "Default Auto-Naming to English (ASCII)" preference
New Text Encoding menu in Import Session Data dialog, for identifying language encoding of legacy sessions
Ability to choose language encoding used when saving session materials
Database information for all languages now stored in a single Unicode folder

- Editing improvements:
Beat Detective Enhanced Resolution general analysis algorithm (Pro Tools LE with Music Production Toolkit only)
Improved transient detection for Tab to Transients and Separate Region at Transients
Tab to Transients command keyboard shortcut

- MIDI improvements:
MIDI In to Pro Tools over ReWire

- LE interface enhancements:
On/off footswitch support (003, 003 Rack, Digi 002, Digi 002 Rack, and Mbox 2 Pro only)
Ability to punch in and out with footswitch added to Mbox 2 Pro

Miscellaneous Video Enhancements and Features

Avid Mojo SDI Support for Pro Tools LE with 003 or Mbox 2:

- Support for Avid Video

- Support for video features previously only supported by Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE with DV Toolkit 2:
Multiple video tracks in the Timeline
Multiple QuickTime movies on a single video track
- Multiple playlists for video tracks
- Multiple codecs on an individual video track
- Avid and QuickTime video track icons
- Ability to drag video files from the Region List to the Timeline
- Gaps Between Regions video import option, for indicating time between each imported video clip in a video track
- General video editing
- Video region groups


General Video-Related Improvements:

- Expanded video resolution support for Pro Tools with Avid Mojo, including all video resolutions previously supported by Pro Tools with Avid Mojo SDI and AVoption|V10

- Support for co-installation of Avid Xpress Pro 5.7.x with all versions of Pro Tools 7.4

- DigiTranslator support on Pro Tools M-Powered
systems

- Support for Windows Media video created using the VC-1 Advanced Profile codec (Windows Vista only):
Import, playback, and general editing commands
Windows Media (VC-1 AP) track type icons on video tracks
Bounce to Windows Media (VC-1 AP) movie
Support for Windows Media (VC-1 AP) playback on dual monitors and/or to client monitor via DirectShow devices

Requirements
Mac OS X 10.4.9

- Fixed: In Some Circumstances, a Trim Edit Could Not Be Constrained (Item #94425)
The "constrain" command (Control+Trimmer) would not work under certain editing situations involving overlap/underlap.

- Fixed: Regions Could Disappear From a Session After Neo Assertion Errors (Item #97360)
In some cases, having to force quit after getting Neo Assertion errors could cause all regions to be removed from a session.

- Fixed: Intermittent Graphic Freeze When Using Pro Tools (Item #82932)
Pro Tools would continue to play while the GUI was frozen, with intermittent plug-in automation and MIDI playback, and then unfreeze.

- Fixed: Random Disappearance or Corruption of Regions On Tracks When Editing Or Punching In (Item #85976)
Although this could occur while editing or recording over regions, the problem was most evident when QuickPunching over existing regions.

- Fixed: Attempting To Play From The Beginning Of A Session May Fail (Item #85674, 93283, 93289)
After the play command, the Play and Stop buttons flash, but Pro Tools does not play
Repeated attempts may result in a successful play

- Fixed: Importing Audio Files From A Sound Devices 744T Field Recorder Causes Multiple Problems (Item #90570, 90726)
Audio files would not have a Unique ID assigned to them
An assertion, "FF AudioProperty.cpp, line 33" would be thrown when overviews were being calulated
Audio could be unreadable by Pro Tools
Note: The following problem has not yet been addressed. We expect this fix in a future version of Pro Tools:Pro Tools cannot access the time stamp information in Spot mode

- Fixed: Enabling Low Latency Monitoring Could Cause Loss Of Output Signal With a Pro Tools LE FireWire Audio Interface: 003 Family, Digi 002 Family , Mbox 2 Pro (Item #89073)
Note that although the output signal would stop, the meter would still indicate signal present

- Fixed: Random Disappearance or Corruption of Regions On Tracks When Editing Or Punching In (Item #85976)
Although this could occur while editing or recording over regions, the problem was most evident when QuickPunching over existing regions.

- Fixed: Attempting To Play From The Beginning Of A Session May Fail (Item #85674, 93283, 93289)
After the play command, the Play and Stop buttons flash, but Pro Tools does not play
Repeated attempts may result in a successful play

- Fixed: Importing Audio Files From A Sound Devices 744T Field Recorder Causes Multiple Problems (Item #90570, 90726)
Audio files would not have a Unique ID assigned to them
An assertion, "FF AudioProperty.cpp, line 33" would be thrown when overviews were being calulated
Audio could be unreadable by Pro Tools
Note: The following problem has not yet been addressed. We expect this fix in a future version of Pro Tools:Pro Tools cannot access the time stamp information in Spot mode

- Fixed: Enabling Low Latency Monitoring Could Cause Loss Of Output Signal With a Pro Tools LE FireWire Audio Interface: 003 Family, Digi 002 Family , Mbox 2 Pro (Item #89073)
Note that although the output signal would stop, the meter would still indicate signal present

- Fixed: Previewing Audio in the Workspace Could Cause an Assertion Error (Item #87627)
This would occur if the previewed audio was the result of a search. Note that clicking on the waveform was not problematic.

- Fixed: Under Certain Circumstances, Creating New Memory Locations Could Cause an Unexpected Quit (Item #87164)
This would occur if the preference "Default Region Color Coding" was set to "Marker locations."

- Fixed: The Parameters and Values in the Display Bar of 003 Could Be Focused on the Wrong Plug-In (Item #85007)
After focusing to a new plug-in, the top row of the scribble strip would reflect the new plug-in, but the bottom row display and controls would continue to be focused on the previously selected plug-in.

- Fixed: Upon First Playback, DAE -6085 Error With Mbox 2 Pro on Mac OS X (Item #83789)
The workaround was to unplug/replug the Mbox 2 Pro after booting the computer.

Fixed: Adjusting Send Levels While Recording Audio Can Result in the Send Levels Resetting to "0" When Reopening The Session (Item #86186)
This would occur if no automation had been written on the Send.