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The selected region snaps to the following re-
gion on the track so that the two regions are
“butt-spliced.”
Slipping Regions
In Slip mode, regions can be moved with the
Time Grabber tool freely within a track, or onto
other tracks. In this mode, it is possible to place
a region so that there is space between it and
other regions in a track. When the track is
played back, this space is silent. It is also possible
to move a region so that it overlaps or com-
pletely covers another region.
To slip regions:
1
Enable Slip mode (see “Edit Modes” on
page 445).
2
Drag a region from the Region List to an
empty track.
3
Drag a second region from the Region List to
the same track, somewhere in the middle. The
second region is placed wherever you release it.
It does not snap to the first region as in Shuffle
mode.
4
Drag the regions to different locations within
the track to get a feel for moving them in Slip
mode. Try placing the second region so that it
slightly overlaps the first region. Play back the
results.
Spotting Regions
Spot mode is useful for sessions in which you
want to spot regions to precise locations based
on any of the Time Scales. This is useful when
performing post production tasks. In Spot mode
you can spot a region by specifying a SMPTE
frame (Pro Tools HD and Pro Tools LE with DV
Toolkit 2 only) or bar and beat location, by cap-
turing an incoming time code address, or by us-
ing the region’s time stamps.
Snapping a region to the next region in a track
You can also use the Snap To commands
with an Edit selection that includes multi-
ple regions on one or more tracks.
For even quicker spotting, if you are using
VITC, use the Auto-Spot Regions command
to spot a region to the current SMPTE frame
location with the Time Grabber tool. For
more information, see “Auto-Spotting Re-
gions” on page 1030.