DigiDesign Digidesign Pro Tools 8.0, Reference Manual

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Chapter 24: Making Selections 477
Making Selections While Playing
Pro Tools lets you make on-the-fly selections
with the Up and Down Arrow keys.
To make a selection while playing:
1
Enable Link Timeline and Edit Selection ( Op-
tions > Link Timeline and Edit Selection ).
2
With the Selector tool, click somewhere near
the beginning of the track in which you want to
make the selection.
3
Click Play in the Transport window (or press
the Spacebar) to begin playback.
4
When playback reaches the point where you
want the selection to begin, press the Down Ar-
row key.
5
Press the Up Arrow key at the point where you
want the selection to end. The selected range be-
comes highlighted.
6
To stop playback, click Stop in the Transport
(or press the Spacebar).
To automatically scroll to the beginning of the
selection (or to the location of the on-screen
cursor), press the Left Arrow key. To scroll to the
end of the selection, press the Right Arrow key.
While in Page Scroll or Continuous Scroll mode,
making a selection in the Timeline or a playlist
during playback as the playback cursor moves
off-screen suspends page scrolling. To resume
page scrolling and jump to the current playback
location, click the Playback Cursor locator in the
Main Timebase ruler (see “Locating the Playback
Cursor when It Is Off-Screen” on page 330).
Object Selections
Use the Object Grabber tool to select noncontig-
uous regions on one or more tracks. Noncontig-
uous selections must encompass entire regions.
If you want a noncontiguous selection to in-
clude a portion of a region, first turn the portion
into a new region with the Separate Region com-
mand (see “Separate Commands” on page 496).
To select noncontiguous regions:
1
Set the Edit mode to either Slip or Grid.
2
Click the Grabber tools pop-up menu and se-
lect
Object
.
3
Shift-click each region you want to include in
the selection. The regions can even reside on dif-
ferent tracks.
Each clicked region is surrounded by a dark bor-
der, indicating it is selected.
The Object Grabber tool ignores Edit Groups
when making selections. For instance, selecting
a region on a grouped track does not cause re-
gions in the other tracks in the group to become
selected.
The Object Grabber is not available when
the Edit mode is set to Shuffle or Spot.
Object Grabber tool
Noncontiguous selection