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Chapter 25: Editing Regions and Selections 495
Chapter 25: 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 chapter covers basic editing functions as
they apply to regions and region groups, and se-
lections, which for the most part apply to both
MIDI and audio data.
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.
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.
For editing procedures more specific to
MIDI, see Chapter 29, “MIDI Editing.”
For editing procedures specific to video, see
“Video Regions” on page 1047.
For details on how these new regions are au-
tomatically named, see “Auto-Naming Op-
tions” on page 220.
For information on automatically-created
regions, see “Region Types” on page 428.