We have recently run a set of longitudinal data (FreeSurfer5.3) and are making edits to the base pial surfaces.  It is clear that there are two different ways of doing pial edits including: 1. editing the brainmask.mgz and 2. the brain.finalsurfs.mgz.  I recognize that they are specific ways to deal with different issues in the surface reconstruction.

My question is will the following command (recon-all -base <ID> -autorecon2-pial -autorecon3) pick up both edits in the -base rerun 

or

will you need to make the brainmask.mgz edits, rerun the -base recon command the make brain.finalsufs.mgz edits, rerun the -base command?

Thanks,

David