User`s guide

Pro Tools Reference Guide374
Consult your video capture software docu-
mentation for more information.
More Tips for Spotting Audio
◆ Specify your Movie size up front. For pur-
poses of spotting audio, 320 x 240 is usu-
ally adequate. If you are displaying the
movie on a 2nd monitor with 640 x 480
resolution, with pixel doubling, it will fill
the screen.
◆ Try to work with a window burn in your
Movie, since it will help you spot material.
You can produce your own window burns
for your capture using Digidesign's Univer-
sal Slave Driver.
◆ Use a continuous scrolling option.
Pro Tools includes two scrolling options
that are particularly useful in post-produc-
tion: Continuous Scroll During Playback,
and Continuous Scroll with Playhead. En-
able either of these scrolling options by se-
lecting them from the Operations > Scroll
Options submenu. For more information,
see Chapter 14: Playing/Selecting Track Mate-
rial.
Using Grid Mode to Spot and
Nudge Regions with Frame
Accuracy
Grid Mode allows you to constrain the
movement of regions so that they snap to
SMPTE-based measurements (minutes, sec-
onds, frames, or subframes).
To spot audio to a movie:
1 Make sure no regions are selected on
screen, and click the Grid button at the up-
per left corner of the Edit window. This en-
sures that your audio will be always be
aligned to a frame boundary.
2 Set your Grid to Time Code using the
pop-up menu.
3 Choose a desirable Grid unit setting.
Note that you can set your Grid units inde-
pendently of your Main Time display.
4 Using the Selector, place the insertion
cursor at the desired location in the movie.
If you wish, use the Nudge Units pop-up to
set the nudge units to frames. You can then
use the plus and minus keys on your com-
puter keyboard to nudge the insertion
point frame by frame.
5 Hold down the Control key and drag the
desired region from the Regions List to the
appropriate track. Pro Tools will automati-
cally spot the region to the same time loca-
tion as the cursor.
▲ To spot your elements directly to locations
in the movie, use the technique described
above. In this scenario, Auto Spot mode is not
recommended, since it uses incoming MTC for
location information.
Importing QuickTime Audio
Pro Tools allows you to import audio di-
rectly from a QuickTime movie. You can
import audio from a movie currently
loaded into a session, or from a different
movie. The procedure is the same for both.