Specifications

Chapter 27: Editing Clips and Selections 587
Chapter 27: Editing Clips and Selections
Clips are the basic building blocks for arranging
audio and MIDI in Pro Tools. Understanding how
clips are created, edited, and arranged is essential
to taking full advantage of the editing capabilities
of Pro Tools.
This topic covers basic editing functions as they
apply to clips and clip groups, and selections,
which for the most part apply to both MIDI and au-
dio data.
For editing procedures more specific to MIDI, see
Chapter 31, “MIDI Editing.” For editing proce-
dures specific to video, see “Video Clips” on
page 1203.
Creating New Clips
Pro Tools provides several commands for creating
clips and clip groups, each of them having a
slightly different effect on the selection. When you
create a new clip or clip group, it appears in the
Clip List and in the track’s playlist. When creating
a new clip from an existing clip, the original clip
remains in the Clip List. New clips are named au-
tomatically (see “Auto-Naming Options” on
page 281
).
Capture Clip Command
The Capture Clip command defines a selection as a
new clip and adds it to the Clip List. From there,
the new clip can be dragged to any existing tracks.