Specifications

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To slip regions:
1 Set the Edit mode to Slip by clicking its button
in the upper left of the Edit window.
2 Drag a region from the Regions List to an
empty track.
3 Drag a second region from the Regions List to
the same track, somewhere in the middle. The
second region is placed wherever you release it.
It doesn’t snap to the first region as in Shuffle
mode.
4 Drag the regions to different locations within
the track to get a feel for moving them in Slip
mode. Try placing the second region so that it
slightly overlaps the first region. Play back the
results.
Spotting Regions
Spot mode is useful for sessions in which you
want to spot regions to precise locations based
on any of the Time Scales. This can be particu-
larly useful when performing post production
tasks. In Spot mode you can spot a region by
specifying a SMPTE frame (all TDM systems and
LE systems with DV Toolkit only) or bar and
beat location, by capturing an incoming time
code address, or by using the region’s time
stamps.
To spot a region:
1 Set the Edit mode to Spot by clicking its but-
ton in the upper left of the Edit window.
2 Drag a region from the Regions List, or drag
audio files or sessions from a DigiBase browser,
to an existing track.
– or –
Click a region already in a track with the Grab-
ber.
3 In the Spot dialog, select a time format from
the Time Scale pop-up menu.
Each of the fields in the Spot dialog are dis-
played in the chosen Time Scale.
4 For TDM systems or LE systems with DV Tool-
kit, if the Time Scale is set to Time Code, select
the Use Subframes option to display subframes
in the fields for improved accuracy.
For even quicker spotting, if you are using
VITC, use the Auto-Spot Regions command
to spot a region to the current SMPTE frame
location with the Grabber. For more infor-
mation, see “Auto-Spotting Regions” on
page 569.
Spot dialog