User`s guide

Chapter 14: Playing/Selecting Track Material 157
dicator can be set to any of the other Time
Scale formats for another timing reference.
Both the Main and Sub indicators also ap-
pear in the Transport window when it is set
to display Counters.
To navigate with the Location Indicators:
1 Click in one of the Location Indicators.
– or –
Press Equal (=) on the numeric keypad to
highlight the Main Location Indicator (or
the Transport Counters or Big Time win-
dow, if either are displayed).
2 Type in the new location. Press period (.)
to cycle through to the different time
fields.
3 Press Enter to accept the new value and
automatically locate there.
✽ Choose from the pop-up menus next to the
Main and Sub indicators (in either the Edit win-
dow or Transport window) to set their time for-
mats.
Scrolling in the Ruler
You can scroll the contents of the Edit win-
dow by clicking and dragging in the Ruler.
While this doesn’t actually update the ses-
sion’s Current Location, it does let you con-
veniently shift the display left or right for
the sake of finding and editing material.
This method of scrolling is especially useful
when using Continuous Scroll with Play-
head (TDM systems only), which does not
update or follow Timeline selections.
To scroll the entire contents of the Edit
window from the Ruler:
■ While pressing Comand+Option+Con-
trol (Macintosh) or Control+Alt+Start
(Windows), drag left or right in any of the
Timebase Rulers.
Scrolling Options
Pro Tools offers the following options for
how it scrolls the contents of the Edit win-
dow during playback and recording.
Choose Operations > Scrolling Options and
select one of the following from the sub-
menu:
No Auto-Scrolling With this scrolling op-
tion, the Edit window does not scroll dur-
ing or after playback. The playback cursor
moves across the Edit window, indicating
the playback location.
Scroll After Playback Causes the Edit win-
dow to scroll to the final playback location
after playback has stopped. In this mode,
the playback cursor moves across the Edit
window, indicating the playback location.
Page Scroll During Playback Causes the Edit
window to scroll during playback. With
this option, the playback cursor moves
across the Edit window, indicating the
playback location. When the right edge of
the Edit window is reached, its entire con-
tents are scrolled, and the playback cursor
continues moving from the left edge of the
window.
Scrolling in the Ruler