Specifications

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3 Do one of the following:
• Click at the end of the clip, and drag left or right
to the point you want the loop to stop.
• Click at the beginning of the clip, and drag left or
right to the point you want the loop to start.
Trimming Looped Clips
You can trim looped clips in two ways:
• Loop Trim a looped clip to change how long the
clip is looped. For example, Loop Trim a looped
clip from 2 bars to four bars. With a 1 bar clip,
the number of loops changes from 2 to 4. Each
loop iteration remains the same length, but the
length of the entire looped clip changes.
• Trim the source clip (loop iteration) while keep-
ing the overall loop length unchanged. The num-
ber of loop iterations within the looped clip
changes accordingly. For example, trim a 2 bar
loop iteration of a 4 bar looped clip to 1 bar. The
4 bar looped clip remains constant, but the num-
ber of loop iterations changes from 2 to 4. Each
loop iteration’s length changes, but how long the
clip is looped does not.
To Loop Trim a looped clip:
1 Select the Loop Trim tool.
2 Move the cursor over the top half of the looped
clip (not over a Loop icon). The cursor indicates
the Loop Trim tool.
3 Trim the looped clip.
The number of loops increases or decreases to fill
the new length of the entire looped clip.
Looped clip
Loop Trim tool
Loop icon
Loop Trim tool
Loop trimming a looped clip
Hold the Start key (Windows), or the
Control key (Mac) while trimming to trim
in loop iteration increments.
Trimming a looped clip does not trim any un-
derlying Fades.