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To spot a region:
Enable Spot mode (see "Edit Modes" on
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page 445).
Do one of the following:
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• Drag a region from the Region List, or drag
audio files or sessions from a DigiBase
browser, to an existing track.
– or –
• Click a region already in a track with the
Time Grabber tool.
In the Spot dialog, select a time format from
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the Time Scale pop-up menu.
Each of the fields in the Spot dialog are dis-
played in the chosen Time Scale.
Spot dialog
With Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools LE with Com-
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plete Production Toolkit or DV Toolkit 2, if the
Time Scale is set to Time Code, select the Use
Subframes option to display subframes in the
fields for improved accuracy.
Do one of the following:
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• Click in the field for Start, Sync Point, or
End and type in a new location. Changing
one of these locate points automatically
updates the other locate points.
• Click one of the up arrows next to Original
Time Stamp or User Time Stamp to enter
the associated values into the currently se-
lected field.
• If you are using an external SMPTE time
code source, click the down arrow next to
the Current Time Code display—or press
Equal (=) on the numeric keypad—to cap-
ture an incoming time code address.
Click OK. The region is moved to the new lo-
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cation specified for its start, end, or sync point.
If a region does not have a sync point defined,
the Sync Point field in the Spot dialog functions
the same as the Start field.
For more information on using SMPTE with
Pro Tools, see Chapter 47, "Working with
Synchronization."
Right-Click Commands for Spotting Regions
You can use Right-click commands with a key
combination to spot regions in a track.
In lower versions of Pro Tools, Right-click-
ing in a region with the Grabber tool would
spot the region to a selection.
To spot a region to a selection:
Click or drag with the Selector tool to locate
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the cursor or make a selection in the track where
you want to spot the region.
Control-Right-click (Windows) or Command-
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Right-click (Mac) the region and choose any of
the following from the pop-up menu:
• Move Region Start to Selection Start
• Move Region Sync to Selection Start
• Move Region End to Selection Start
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