Specifications

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Edit Window Default Length
Pro Tools lets you set a default length for the Edit
window in hours, minutes, seconds, and frames.
This is useful if you want to assemble a session of
a particular length or leave extra room to expand
the Edit window’s work area in your session. The
maximum length is 12 hours and 25 minutes at
48 kHz, and proportionally less at higher sample
rates. For best scrollbar sensitivity, set the length
to slightly longer (a minute or more) than the total
session or song length.
To set the default length for the Edit window:
1 Choose Setup > Preferences.
2 On the Display page, enter the value in hours,
minutes, seconds, and frames for the
Edit Win-
dow Default Length
setting.
3 Click OK.
Transport Window
The Transport window can be set to show basic
transport controls, counters, MIDI controls, and
expanded features. The counters in the Transport
window mirror the controls and counters at the top
of the Edit window.
To display the Transport window:
 Choose Window > Transport.
Basic Transport Controls and
Counters
Online Puts Pro Tools online so that playback and
recording is triggered by an external timecode
source.
Return to Zero Locates to the beginning of the ses-
sion.
Rewind Rewinds from the current play location.
You can also click repeatedly to rewind incremen-
tally, by an amount based on the Main Time Scale,
as follows:
Transport window showing basic transport controls
and counters (Main and Sub Counters and MIDI not
shown)
Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac) to
Return to Zero.
You can Right-click the Return to Zero but-
ton to access the Write to Start and Write to
All automation commands.
With the Numeric Keypad mode set to Trans-
port, you can rewind by pressing 1.
Start, End, and Length
Selection indicators
Online
Rewind
Fast Forward
Stop
Play
Record
Return to Zero
Go to End
Pre-
Roll
Post-
Roll
Track Record Enable indicator
TrackInput Monitor
indicator
Transport Window menu