Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide276
Finding Clips
Use the Find command to display all clips in a list
whose names contain a particular word or phrase.
To find and display clips in the Clip List:
1 Do one of the following:
• Click the Clip List menu and choose
Find.
• Press Command+Shift+F (Mac) or
Control+Shift+F (Windows).
2 In the Find Clips dialog, do any of the follow-
ing:
• Select
By Name and type the name, or any por-
tion of the name, for clips you want to find. The
search string appears at the top of the Clip List.
• Select
Include Subsequently Added Clips to
limit the display to newly added clips. A plus (+)
sign appears at the top of the Clip List to indicate
this option is selected.
• Select both options to start with a list of named
clips and allow display of added clips.
Clips of any type whose name match the word or
phrase you searched are displayed in the Clip List.
The search string is displayed at the top of the Clip
List in brackets.
3 Click OK.
To repeat a previous search:
1 Click the Clip List menu, and choose Find.
2 Click the small arrow to the right of the text
field in the Find dialog and select a text string
from the
Find History pop-up menu.
The Find History is saved with the session.
In addition to storing each text string previously
entered, you can insert multiple entries into the
Find History manually (without having to perform
each Find in order to store words or phrases).
Find Clips dialog
Found Clips in the Clip List
Text entered into the Find dialog is saved in
a Find History, letting you quickly
repeat previous searches with a minimum
of retyping.
An example of a Find history