Specifications

Pro Tools Reference Guide278
Nudging a Region’s Contents
Often a region’s start point will reside at the cor-
rect location, perhaps at a SMPTE frame or bar,
but the material within the region starts too late
or early. You can, in effect, nudge a region’s au-
dio waveform or MIDI notes without displacing
the region’s start and end points.
This “sliding” of region contents is only possible
if there is material residing outside the region’s
start and end points—from the region having
been trimmed, or perhaps captured from a larger
region.
To nudge the contents of a region without
changing the region start and end points:
1 Configure the Nudge value. For details, see
“Defining the Nudge Value” on page 276.
2 With the Grabber, select the region whose
contents you want to nudge.
3 While pressing the Start key (Windows) or
Control (Macintosh), press Plus (+) or Minus (–)
on the numeric keypad to move the material by
the Nudge value.
Shift Command
Use the Shift command to move track material
forward or back in time by a specified amount.
The Shift command can operate on selections,
regions, MIDI notes, MIDI controller data, and
automation breakpoints.
To shift a selection or region:
1 Using either the Selector or Grabber, select the
track material you want to shift. The selected
material can reside on multiple tracks.
2 Choose Edit > Shift. In the Shift dialog, select
whether the data will be moved Earlier or Later.
3 Click in one of the Timebase fields to specify
the amount the material will be shifted. Enter-
ing a value in one Timebase field automatically
updates the others.
4 If you want to shift material with greater pre-
cision, select the Use Subframes option.
5 Click OK. The material is shifted back or for-
ward by the specified amount.
If a portion of a region was selected, new regions
are created from the selection and from any ma-
terial outside of the selection.
Nudging region content
region contents are slid, moving waveform mate-
rial into and out of the current region boundaries
before
after
Shift dialog