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Chapter 20: Working with Regions and Selections 431
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.
To spot a region:
1
Set the Edit mode to Spot by clicking its but-
ton in the upper left of the Edit window.
2
Do one of the following:
• Drag a region from the Region List, or drag
audio files or sessions from a DigiBase
browser, to an existing track.
– or –
• Click a region already in a track with the
Time Grabber tool.
3
In the Spot dialog, select a time format from
the Time Scale pop-up menu.
Each of the fields in the Spot dialog are dis-
played in the chosen Time Scale.
4
With Pro Tools HD or Pro Tools LE with DV
Toolkit 2, if the Time Scale is set to Time Code,
select the Use Subframes option to display sub-
frames in the fields for improved accuracy.
5
Do one of the following:
• Click in the field for Start, Sync Point, or
End and type in a new location. Changing
one of these locate points automatically
updates the other locate points.
• Click one of the up arrows next to Original
Time Stamp or User Time Stamp to enter
the associated values into the currently se-
lected field.
• If you are using an external SMPTE time
code source, click the down arrow next to
the Current Time Code display—or press
Equal (=) on the numeric keypad—to cap-
ture an incoming time code address.
6
Click OK. The region is moved to the new lo-
cation specified for its start, end, or sync point.
If a region does not have a sync point defined,
the Sync Point field in the Spot dialog functions
the same as the Start field.
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 814.
Spot dialog
For more information on using SMPTE with
Pro Tools, see Chapter 35, “Working with
Synchronization.”