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Chapter 28: Editing Regions and
Selections
Regions are the basic building blocks for arrang-
ing audio and MIDI in Pro Tools. Understanding
how regions are created, edited, and arranged is
essential to taking full advantage of the editing
capabilities of Pro Tools.
This topic covers basic editing functions as they
apply to regions and region groups, and selec-
tions, which for the most part apply to both
MIDI and audio data.
For editing procedures more specific to MIDI,
see Chapter 32, “MIDI Editing.” For editing pro-
cedures specific to video, see “Video Regions”
on page 1155.
Creating New Regions
Pro Tools provides several commands for creat-
ing regions and region groups, each of them
having a slightly different effect on the selec-
tion. When you create a new region or region
group, it appears in the Region List and in the
track’s playlist. When creating a new region
from an existing region, the original region re-
mains in the Region List. New regions are
named automatically (see “Auto-Naming Op-
tions” on page 268
).
Capture Region Command
The Capture Region command defines a selection
as a new region and adds it to the Region List.
From there, the new region can be dragged to
any existing tracks.