User`s guide

Pro Tools Reference Guide360
To spot a region to a specific SMPTE frame:
1 Choose Display > Show Edit Window.
2 Choose Display > Time Code.
3 Click the Spot button at the top left of
the Edit window to put Pro Tools into Spot
mode.
4 Identify the SMPTE frame location where
you wish to trigger playback of your region
by pausing your video deck on that frame.
5 With the Grabber, click a region in a
track (or drag a region from the Region’s
List into a track). The Spot dialog appears.
6 Enter the desired SMPTE frame location.
7 If you are using VITC, you can press the
“=” key on your numeric keypad, or click
Current Time Code to enter a paused VTR’s
current SMPTE location.
8 If you are using LTC, when SMPTE Time
Code is selected for the Time Scale, press
the “=” key on the numeric keypad to cap-
ture the incoming time code. When Bars &
Beats is selected for the Time Scale, press
the “=” key to capture to the nearest mea-
sure.
9 If you recorded the region while online,
you can use the Original Time Stamp but-
ton to recall and enter the SMPTE frame lo-
cation at which the region was originally
recorded. You can also access a user-defined
Time Stamp in the same fashion. See “Time
Stamping” on page 133 for more informa-
tion.
10 Click OK to close this dialog. The region
spotted to the chosen SMPTE frame loca-
tion. When the session is online, this frame
number will trigger playback of the region.
Auto-Spotting Regions
The Pro Tools Auto-Spot Regions option
simplifies the task of spotting regions even
further. If you are using VITC with this op-
tion enabled, or MachineControl software,
you can pause your video at an appropriate
SMPTE frame location, click on a region
with the Grabber, and the region will be au-
tomatically spotted to the current time
code location.
To Auto-Spot a region:
1 Choose Operations > Auto-Spot Regions.
2 If you are using VITC, identify the SMPTE
frame location where you wish to trigger
playback of your region by pausing your
video deck on that frame.
3 Click the desired region with the Grab-
ber. The region will be automatically spot-
ted to the current time code location (or
machine location).
✽ Clicking a region with the Trimmer will allow
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 Sync Point” on
page 362). If the region contains a Sync Point,
the region is spotted to it.
Using the Trimmer in Spot Mode
You can use the Spot dialog to trim your re-
gions, including start/end/duration times
and referencing incoming time code ad-
dresses. If you click a region with the Trim-
mer in Spot mode, the Spot dialog will ap-
pear, allowing you to enter a value in the
Spot Mode button