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Pro Tools Reference Guide116
QuickPunch with an Edit Selection
If you make an Edit selection and use
QuickPunch, the following rules apply:
If you are not online, recording begins and
stops whenever you click the Record but-
ton—regardless of the selection’s start or
end point.
If you are online, punch-in/out behavior is
controlled by the Online Options setting in
the Operations Preferences. If you select
Record Online at Insertion/Selection,
QuickPunch punches in/out only within
the selection (or in the case of an insertion
point, only after the insertion point). If you
select Record Online at Time Code Lock,
QuickPunch disregards the selection and
punches in/out whenever you want (after
Pro Tools has locked to time code).
Region and Take Numbering with
QuickPunch
After recording with QuickPunch, the new
audio regions appear in the Audio Regions
List. This includes the whole-file audio re-
gion encompassing all punches from the
record pass, along with the regions derived
for each punch.
Names for the parent audio files end with
“00” and the punch regions are numbered
consecutively starting with “01.” For in-
stance, if QuickPunch is used to punch in
twice on a track called “Lead Gtr,” a region
for the parent audio file appears and is
named “Lead Gtr-01-00,” and two regions
for the punches appear that are named
“Lead Gtr-01-01” and “Lead Gtr-01-02.”
If you stop playback and record additional
punches with QuickPunch, subsequent re-
gions are named by incrementing the first
two digits in the name. For instance, on the
second pass, regions would appear named
as “Lead Gtr-02-00,” “Lead Gtr-02-01,” and
so forth.
Recording from a Digital
Source
If you plan to use a DAT recorder or digital-
output CD player with your Pro Tools sys-
tem, make sure it supports the correct digi-
tal format. AES/EBU inputs and outputs
should only be connected to other
AES/EBU-equipped devices, and S/PDIF in-
puts and outputs should only be connected
to other S/PDIF-equipped devices.
On the 888/24 I/O and ADAT Bridge I/O,
both AES/EBU and S/PDIF outputs are ac-
tive at all times, so you can actually send
digital audio to two different digital devices
simultaneously at mix time. However,
Pro Tools can only receive digital audio
from one digital source (AES or S/PDIF) at a
time.
In addition, although the 888/24 I/O has
four stereo AES input pairs, only input pair
1–2 on the master audio interface, (the first
audio interface connected to your main
DSP card), can accept an external digital
clock source.