User`s guide

Chapter 15: Working with Regions and Selections 185
5 Click in the field for Start, Sync Point, or
End and type in a new location.
– or –
Click one of the up arrows next to Original
Time Stamp or User Time Stamp to enter
the associated values into the currently se-
lected field.
– or –
If you are using an external SMPTE time
code source, click the down arrow next to
the Current Time Code display (or press
Equal (=) on the numeric keypad) to cap-
ture an incoming time code address.
6 Click OK. The region is moved to the new
location specified for its start or sync point.
✽ If a region does not have a sync point de-
fined, the Sync Point field in the Spot dialog
functions the same as the Start field.
To learn more about using SMPTE with
Pro Tools, refer to Chapter 24: Time Code
Synchronization.
Region Time Stamps
When a region is created, it is time stamped
relative to the SMPTE start time specified
for the session. This Original Time Stamp is
permanently stored with the region and
cannot be changed. If a region is ever
moved, it can easily be placed at its original
position from the Spot dialog.
When the Original Time Stamp for a region
is initially set, this same location is also
used to define the region’s User Time
Stamp.
Unlike the Original Time Stamp, the User
Time Stamp can be redefined with the
Time Stamp Selected command in the Re-
gions List pop-up menu. For more informa-
tion, see “Time Stamping” on page 361.
Regions with identical User Time Stamps
appear together in the Takes List pop-up
when auditioning takes. For more informa-
tion, see “Auditioning from the Takes List
Pop-up Menu” on page 94.
Moving Regions in Grid Mode
In Grid mode, the movement and place-
ment of regions is constrained to the cur-
rent Grid value. Grid boundaries, depend-
ing on the Main Time Scale, can be based
on frames, bar and beat values, minutes or
seconds, or a number of samples.
This mode is especially useful for lining up
regions at precise intervals, as when work-
ing with a session that is bar/beat based.
For example, if the Grid value is set to quar-
ter-notes (0|1|000), dragging a region to a
new location causes it to snap to the near-
est quarter-note boundary.
When the Display Preference for “Draw
Grid in Edit Window” is enabled, vertical
Grid lines appear in the Edit window.
✽ Grid lines in the Edit window can also be en-
abled and disabled by Control-clicking (Mac-
intosh) or Right-clicking (Windows) the
Indicator Dot for any Timebase Ruler.