Specifications
Pro Tools Reference Guide502
QuickPunch with an Edit Selection
If you make an Edit selection and use QuickPunch,
the following rules apply:
• If the Transport is not online, recording begins
and stops whenever you click the Record button
in the Transport—regardless of the selection’s
start or end point.
• If the Transport is online, punch-in/out behavior
is controlled by the Online Options setting on
the Operation Preferences page.
• If you select
Record Online at Insertion/
Selection
, QuickPunch punches in and out
only within the selection (or in the case of an
insertion point, only after the insertion point).
• If you select
Record Online at Timecode
Lock
, QuickPunch disregards the selection
and punches in and out whenever you want
(after Pro Tools has locked to timecode).
TrackPunch Audio Recording
(Pro Tools HD
and Pro Tools with Complete
Production Toolkit Only
)
TrackPunch mode lets you punch tracks in and out
individually (one at a time) or punch multiple
tracks in and out simultaneously. TrackPunch is a
nondestructive punch mode which leaves previous
material on disk. (To destructively replace audio
on disk, see “DestructivePunch Audio Recording”
on page 506).
TrackPunch Setup
Before using TrackPunch in a record pass you
must configure Pro Tools, session, and track set-
tings.
Configuring Pro Tools
To configure Pro Tools:
1 Configure tracks, voicing, and other Track-
Punch settings as needed (see “Guidelines for
Punch Recording” on page 496).
2 Make sure Pro Tools is not recording or playing
back (the Transport is stopped).
Enabling TrackPunch Mode
To enable TrackPunch mode:
Do any of the following:
• Select
Options > TrackPunch.
• Right-click the Record button in the Transport,
and select
TrackPunch from the pop-up menu.
• Start-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac)
the Record button in the Transport to cycle
through available Record modes until Track-
Punch mode is selected (a “T” indicates Track-
Punch mode).
• Press Command+Shift+T (Mac) or Con-
trol+Shift+T (Windows).
For information about online playback with
Pro Tools, see the User Guide that came with
your system. For information about synchro-
nization with TrackPunch and Destructive-
Punch recording, see “Synchronization and
Track Arming Options for Punch Recording”
on page 500.