Export Module

Inherit vs override

In the print list, every print shows either (Inherit) or its own value for its mix source and its audio formats. Inherit means the print follows the project values set once on the Print settings page. An override replaces a project value for that print only, and each of the two parameters is tracked on its own: a print can override its mix source while its formats keep inheriting.

What inherit means

The project values in Print settings, naming, mix source, bounce method, format list, and destination, are set once and describe how your studio delivers. A print marked (Inherit) follows those values: change a value in Print settings and every inheriting print follows automatically, with nothing to update print by print.

The label spells out what is being inherited. In the print editor the mix source menu shows Inherit (project default), or the inherited bus by name, for example Inherit (@DRUM BUSS), when the print derives its source from an export category or the template. The chain continues upward: the project mix source in Print settings itself defaults to Inherit (project default), and when nothing in the chain names a source, the print bounces the session's main mix.

What an override does

An override replaces a project value for one print only. There are two: picking a route in the print's Mix source menu, and turning on Custom audio formats, which seeds the print's own format list from the project formats and lets you edit it. An overridden parameter stops following the global from then on: changing the value in Print settings later leaves the override untouched. Everything the print did not override keeps inheriting as before.

Why it works this way

The common case is that everything inherits: one source, one format list, one destination for the whole delivery. Keeping those as project values makes that case trivially simple, you configure Print settings once and never think about parameters per print again. The exception, one deliverable that needs a different source or format, needs no second configuration system: you override exactly that parameter on exactly that print, and everything else stays global.

Example

Suppose every print renders from your mix bus as 48 kHz 24-bit WAV, and one client wants an instrumental from a dedicated instrumental bus. On Suite, you override the mix source on that one print and leave its formats inheriting. Later, when you change the project format list, every print follows, including the instrumental: only the value you explicitly overrode stays its own.

For the full list of parameters a print carries, see Print parameters. For how favorites and custom prints differ, see Favorite and custom prints.