Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide530
Basic Editing Commands
Pro Tools provides many standard edit commands
(such as
Cut, Copy, and Paste). Pro Tools also pro-
vides many specialized edit commands that are op-
timized for audio and MIDI production (such as
Repeat Paste to Fill).
Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear
Use the Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear commands to
rearrange and edit track material. Edits can operate
on entire clips selected with the Time Grabber tool,
or on track ranges selected with the Selector tool.
Edits can also work across multiple tracks (see
“Editing Across Multiple Tracks” on page 534).
Track View and Edit Content
When cutting or copying track material, the Track
View determines the type of data placed on the
Clipboard. When editing in a track’s Master View
(Waveform view for audio tracks and Clips view
for MIDI or Instrument tracks), selections can in-
clude all underlying automation and controller
data (“Automation Follows Edit Option” on
page 1028). Thus, cutting an audio clip can also
cut any volume, pan, mute, send, continuous con-
troller, or plug-in automation that is also on the
track. This saves you from having to individually
cut from each automation playlist on the track.
When selecting groups of MIDI notes in Notes
view with any of the Grabber tools (by drawing a
rectangle around them), only the note data is
placed on the Clipboard. When selecting a time
range of MIDI notes (in Notes view) with the Se-
lector tool, all controller data in the track is se-
lected (similar to selecting with the Selector tool
for audio tracks in Waveform view).
When a track is displaying automation data or con-
troller data, only that data is placed on the Clip-
board. Also, whenever you cut or copy automation
data, bounding breakpoints are created at each end
of the selected area, in order to preserve the slope
of the automation both inside and outside the se-
lection.
If tracks are grouped, copying and pasting on any
of the tracks affects each of the other tracks in the
group. Tracks that are hidden—even if they are
part of a group being edited—are not affected by
edits.
You can Cut, Copy, and Paste noncontiguous
clips by selecting them with the Object Grab-
ber tool.
Audio waveform data
Automation data with Cut and Pasted audio clip
Use Control+Start+V (Windows) or Com-
mand+Control+V (Mac) to special paste
automation data into another automation
type. For example, you can copy Pan automa-
tion into a Volume automation playlist.