Specifications

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3 Click the region with the Grabber. The region
will be automatically spotted to the current time
code location (or machine location).
Using the Trimmer in Spot Mode
You can use the Spot dialog to trim your regions,
including start/end/duration times and refer-
encing incoming time code addresses. If you
click a region with the Trimmer in Spot mode,
the Spot dialog will appear, allowing you to en-
ter a value in the Start or End and Duration
fields to specify exactly where you want to trim
the region’s beginning or end. Use this to edit
the length of a region to correspond to a partic-
ular visual “hit point.”
Trimming a region that contains a sync point
(see “Identifying a Synchronization Point” on
page 572) will not affect the SMPTE location of
the sync point, unless the region is trimmed
past the sync point.
Time Stamping
Pro Tools time stamps every region recorded on-
line with the original SMPTE time at which au-
dio was recorded. You can recall this original
SMPTE time for a region by clicking the Original
Time Stamp button in the Spot dialog.
You can also spot a region to a separate user-de-
fined SMPTE time stamp, defined using the
Time Stamp Selected command. Once the re-
gion is time stamped using this command, you
can click the User Time Stamp button to re-spot
a region to its user-defined SMPTE location.
Show Original Time Code in
Regions
This command displays the original “time
stamped” SMPTE times in all regions currently
placed in tracks. This SMPTE frame number rep-
resents the time at which the region was origi-
nally recorded online with Pro Tools, and does
not necessarily reflect the region’s current
SMPTE location in a track.
To display Original Time Stamps in regions:
■ Select Display > Display Time in Regions >
Original Time Stamp.
To hide Original Time Stamps:
■ Select Display > Display Time in Regions >
None.
Clicking a region with the Trimmer will al-
low you to trim the region to the current
time code location.
Auto-spotted regions are spotted by their
start times, unless you have identified a
Sync Point (see “Identifying a Synchroniza-
tion Point” on page 572). If the region con-
tains a Sync Point, the region is spotted to it.