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Click OK to close this dialog. The region spots
to the chosen SMPTE frame location. When the
session is online, this frame number will trigger
playback of the region.
Auto-Spotting Regions
The Pro Tools Auto-Spot Regions option simpli-
fies the task of spotting regions even further. If
you are using VITC with this option enabled, or
MachineControl software, you can pause your
video at an appropriate SMPTE frame location,
click a region with the Time Grabber tool, and
the region will be automatically spotted to the
current time code location.
You can also use MachineControl’s serial time
code ability to auto-spot by enabling Machine-
Control and enabling serial time code in the pe-
ripheral.
To Auto-Spot a region:
1
Choose Options > Auto-Spot Regions.
2
If you are using VITC, identify the SMPTE
frame location where you want to trigger play-
back of your region by pausing your video deck
on that frame.
3
Click the region with the Time Grabber tool.
The region will be automatically spotted to the
current time code location (or machine loca-
tion).
Using the Trim Tools in Spot Mode
You can use the Spot dialog to trim your regions,
including start/end/duration times and refer-
encing incoming time code addresses. If you
click a region with any of the Trim tools in Spot
mode, the Spot dialog will appear, allowing you
to enter a value in the Start or End and Duration
fields to specify exactly where you want to trim
the region’s beginning or end. Use this to edit
the length of a region to correspond to a partic-
ular visual “hit point.”
Trimming a region that contains a sync point
(see “Identifying a Synchronization Point” on
page 816) does not affect the SMPTE location of
the sync point, unless the region is trimmed
past the sync point.
Time Stamping
Pro Tools time stamps every region recorded on-
line with the original SMPTE time at which au-
dio was recorded. You can recall this original
SMPTE time for a region by clicking the Original
Time Stamp button in the Spot dialog.
You can also spot a region to a separate user-de-
fined SMPTE time stamp, defined using the
Time Stamp command in the Region List pop-
up menu. Once the region is time stamped using
this command, you can click the User Time
Stamp button to re-spot a region to its user-de-
fined SMPTE location.
Clicking a region with any of the Trim tools
will allow you to trim the region to the cur-
rent time code location.
Auto-spotted regions are spotted by their
start times, unless you have identified a
Sync Point (see “Identifying a Synchroniza-
tion Point” on page 816). If the region con-
tains a Sync Point, the region is spotted to it.