Monthly Archives: April 2009

Scrollin’

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Evan

Control-Shift click a track to scroll into view, this will bring the track selected to the top of the screen in the edit window, as well scrolling the track to the first fader position of your control surface, if you … Continue reading →

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Advanced Video Export!

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Major

A few people have suggested this as a great hidden shortcut, so here it is:  If you hold (control-option-command) and click on ‘Bounce to Quicktime’ you will get the standard Quicktime options for converting the video to a different format.  … Continue reading →

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A Quick Way to Rename Multiple Regions

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Evan

To rename a region, select the region and press Shift-Apple-R. This shortcut by itself doesn’t save a ton of time, because you can also just double click on the region to bring up the rename dialog. However, when renaming a … Continue reading →

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Nudge Inside a Region

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Major

This is another well documented keyboard shortcut in the nudge family, but I think it is one of the most useful tools when doing delicate editing.

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kitchen sync points

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Evan

Sync points are, in my opinion, under-utilized by a lot of Pro Tools users. They have some pretty valuable and time-saving uses. The most helpful use of a sync point is snapping a region to your cursor using the sync … Continue reading →

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Export Session Info as Text: Not as useless as it sounds!

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Major

Export Session Info as Text (located in the file menu) is an often overlooked feature that has several great uses, especially in post production.  I will go over two ways that I have used it in the past week, though … Continue reading →

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