Avid Pro Tools 2020.11 - Complete List Of Bug Fixes
With each release of Pro Tools Avid squashes another raft of bugs in Pro Tools. In this article, we list out all the bug fixes that come with the Pro Tools 2020.11 release.
Control Surfaces
Automation Writing/Preview state now reflects knob state as well as fades on EUCON Control Surface display screens (Avid Control and S6 Display Modules)
Fixed a Windows-only issue where the Pro Tools screen is not drawn completely, then stops responding when using an Artist Transport.
Meters on Aux and Routing Folders correctly show input signals when the S6 has set PT meters to Off Disk Only.
Crashes and Errors
MP3's with a width greater than stereo are now correctly prevented from being attempted in the bounce dialog, avoiding a hang
Fixed a crash on quit if a 403 error was encountered while using the Cloud Collaboration feature.
Fixed a crash that may occur when clicking in and out of numeric or text entry boxes.
Fixed a SWOD that could occur when bouncing a large number of tracks.
Fixed an issue that would cause Pro Tools to crash on launch on some Windows systems
Fixed an Ableton Live crash that could occur when running on HD Native Thunderbolt.
Dolby Atmos Workflows
The Bus/Object toggle now defaults to Object for Objects imported with a Dolby Atmos ADM BWF file
Splitting stereo tracks to mono will now also correctly divide the objects between the two resulting tracks
Beds and Objects are now ordered according to renderer input index when importing a Dolby Atmos ADM BWF file
Stereo busses, with objects assigned to the sub-paths, will automatically expand when IO Setup is opened
Prevented an erroneous dialog that would claim objects could not be mapped after importing a Dolby Atmos ADM BWF file
Defaulting IO Setup, with the "Use Atmos Renderer" setting, now properly accounts for skipped renderer inputs
Editing
Fixed an issue where 'Clip Slide' was being added to the UNDO queue prematurely on mouse down, instead of mouse up.
Elastic Audio
Removed an assertion when right-clicking selected clips on an audio track's timeline with Elastic Audio enabled
Export/Bounce
The "Mono (summed)" File Format option no longer disappears after bouncing with it selected.
Field Recorder
Fixed an issue when importing embedded AAF's where the wrong channel name was appearing on clips that referenced a channel which was not the first channel index
Import
Files with a .aac extension will once again import
Fixed an issue where some AAC encoded files would import as silence
Installer
Fixed a case where on some systems installation would be prevented by the following message, "Pro Tools Helper must be closed before the software can be installed."
The video engine is once again installed with Pro Tools on Windows
Performance
Fixed an issue where the System Usage window showed DSP resources to be available when they were not.
Fixed an issue where dragging a DSP plug-in to a different insert resulted in AAE errors -30003/-30015.
Routing and I/O Setup
Subpath channel orders (7.1.2) are now correct on busses created using the track Output Selector > "New Track" or by creating Routing Folders.
User Interface
The voice meter is no longer incorrectly displayed in the Pro Tools (non-Ultimate) System Usage Window
Fixed an issue where the Ableton Link cluster was rendering in the wrong toolbar location if the project was created from a template
Video
Fixed an issue where variable frame rate (VFR) H.264 MOV files could drift sync during playback
Apple ProRes video with a Clean Aperture setting will no longer force the video engine to an 1888x1062 raster on macOS Catalina
Odd integer raster sizes are no longer allowed for the engine raster. If a file with an odd raster is imported, the engine raster size will be rounded up to the nearest even number
Workspace
Drive letters A and B are now recognized as writable drives on Windows
Fixed an issue where volumes with certain names were being ignored
Miscellaneous
Fixed an issue that would cause the Sync HD firmware update to fail on Windows when using DigiTest
Software monitoring is once again properly muted when LLM (Low Latency Monitoring) is enabled with non-HD audio interfaces
Do These Help You?
Do any of these bug fixes introduced in Pro Tools 2020.11, resolve a problem you have been having? Are there any genuine bugs in Pro Tools that continue to annoy you that haven’t yet been fixed? Either way, do let us know in the comments.