User`s guide

Pro Tools Reference Guide260
To use the Time Trimmer in Spot Mode:
1 Set the Edit mode to Spot.
2 Select “TCE Trimmer” from the Trimmer
pop-up menu.
3 Click on the region, near its start or end
point. The Spot Dialog opens. Using any
Time Scale, enter a new start or end time
(or duration) for the region, then click OK.
A new region is automatically processed us-
ing the Time Compression/Expansion
AudioSuite Plug-In. The new region ap-
pears in the playlist and in the Regions List.
Compress/Expand Edit To
Play
(TDM Systems Only)
When the Edit and Timeline selections are
unlinked, you can compress or expand an
audio selection to fit the Timeline selec-
tion. This feature works by using the Time
Compression/Expansion Plug-In to expand
or compress the selected audio material.
To fit an Edit selection to the Timeline:
1 Deselect Operations > Link Edit and
Timeline Selection.
2 With the Selector, select the audio mate-
rial to be compressed or expanded.
3 In any Timebase Ruler, select the time
range where you want to fit the audio ma-
terial.
4 Choose Edit > Compress/Expand Edit To
Play. The Edit selection is compressed or
expanded to the length of the Timeline se-
lection.
Fitting an Audio Region to an Edit
Selection
Regions can be dragged from the Audio Re-
gions List to fit within an Edit selection.
The dragged region is compressed or ex-
panded to fit within the selection. This fea-
ture uses the Time Compression/Expan-
sion Plug-In to expand or compress the
audio region.
To fit an audio region to an Edit selection:
1 With the Selector, select the desired time
range in an audio track.
2 Command-Option-drag (Macintosh) or
Control-Alt-drag (Windows) the region
from the Audio Regions List to the track
with the selection. The start of the region is
positioned at the selection start, and the re-
gion is compressed or expanded to match
the length of the selection.
Repeat Paste To Fill
Selection
(TDM Systems Only)
The Repeat Paste To Fill Selection com-
mand allows you to automatically fill a se-
lection with audio or MIDI data without re-
quiring you to duplicate the regions
manually. To use Repeat Paste, copy an
audio or MIDI region, then make a selec-
tion and use the command to fill the selec-
tion. When pasting audio regions, you are
prompted to specify a crossfade to be used
for the pasted regions.
If you fill an area that is an exact multiple
of the copied region size (for example, fill-
ing 16 bars with a 4-bar loop), the copied