Specifications

Chapter 26: Making Selections 569
Making Selections While Playing
Pro Tools lets you make selections during play-
back with the Up and Down Arrow keys.
To make a selection while playing:
1 Enable Link Timeline and Edit Selection
(
Options > Link Timeline and Edit Selection).
2 With the Selector tool, click somewhere near
the beginning of the track in which you want to
make the selection.
3 Click Play in the Transport window (or press
the Spacebar) to begin playback.
4 When playback reaches the point where you
want the selection to begin, press the Down Ar-
row key.
5 Press the Up Arrow key at the point where you
want the selection to end. The selected range
becomes highlighted.
6 To stop playback, click Stop in the Transport (or
press the Spacebar).
To automatically scroll to the beginning of the se-
lection (or to the location of the on-screen cursor),
press the Left Arrow key. To scroll to the end of
the selection, press the Right Arrow key.
While in Page Scroll or Continuous Scroll mode,
making a selection in the Timeline or a playlist
during playback as the playback cursor moves off-
screen suspends page scrolling. To resume page
scrolling and jump to the current playback loca-
tion, click the Playback Cursor locator in the Main
Timebase ruler (see “Locating the Playback Cur-
sor when It Is Off-Screen” on page 416).
Object Selections
Use the Object Grabber tool to select noncontigu-
ous clips on one or more tracks. Noncontiguous se-
lections must encompass entire clips. If you want a
noncontiguous selection to include a portion of a
clip, first turn the portion into a new clip with the
Separate Clip command (see “Separate Com-
mands” on page 588).
To select noncontiguous clips:
1 Set the Edit mode to either Slip or Grid.
2 Click the Grabber tools pop-up menu and
select
Object.
3 Shift-click each clip you want to include in the
selection. The clips can even reside on different
tracks.
Each clicked clip is surrounded by a dark border,
indicating it is selected.
The Object Grabber tool ignores Edit Groups when
making selections. For instance, selecting a clip on
a grouped track does not cause clips in the other
tracks in the group to become selected.
The Object Grabber is not available when the
Edit mode is set to Shuffle or Spot.
Object Grabber tool
Noncontiguous selection