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To create a Selection Memory Location:
Configure any session settings you will save
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with the Selection Memory Location, such as
zoom settings, pre- and post-roll times,
Show/Hide status for tracks, Track Heights, and
Edit and Mix Group enables.
Select a range of material in one or more
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tracks.
Do one of the following:
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• Press Enter on the numeric keypad.
– or –
• From the pop-up menu in the Memory Lo-
cations window (click the Name button),
choose Add Memory Location.
In the New Memory Location dialog, select
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the Selection option and specify the Reference
as either Bar|Beat or Absolute.
Enter a name for the new Memory Location
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and select any General Properties you want to
save with it.
Click OK. The Selection Memory Location is
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created and appears in the Memory Locations
window.
To create a General Properties Memory Location:
Configure any session settings you will save
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with the Selection Memory Location, such as
zoom settings, pre- and post-roll times,
Show/Hide status for tracks, Track Heights, and
Edit and Mix Group enables.
Press Enter on the numeric keypad.
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In the Memory Location dialog, select the
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None option.
Enter a name for the new Memory Location
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and select any General Properties you want to
save with it.
Click OK. The General Properties Memory Lo-
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cation is created and appears in the Memory Lo-
cations window.
In the New Memory Location dialog, you
can Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click
(Mac) any General Property to enable or dis-
able all properties. You can also Control-
click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac)
any property to toggle its state and the state
of all other General Properties.
Creating Memory Locations On-the-Fly
When the Editing preference for "Auto-Name
Memory Locations When Playing" is enabled,
Memory Locations can be created during play-
back, without raising the New Memory Location
dialog. This option can also be selected from the
pop-up menu in the Memory Locations win-
dow.
This capability is useful if you want to mark cer-
tain locations while listening during a record
pass, or if you want to mark frame locations
while viewing a video scene.
To create a Marker during playback:
From the pop-up menu in the Memory Loca-
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tions window, select Default To Marker. This en-
sures that new Memory Locations default to
being Markers.
From the pop-up menu in the Memory Loca-
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tions window, select Auto-Name Memory Loca-
tions.
For inserted Markers to have a Bar|Beat refer-
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ence, make sure to set the Main Time Scale to
Bars:Beats.
Click Play in the Transport window.
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