Educator

Clips

• If you are running an earlier version of Pro Tools, this will apply to you as Regions. Regions are called Clips in Pro Tools 10 Edition.
• Clips: are building clocks of your sessions. They contain information such as Audio, MIDI & Video.
• Clip List
• Show Clips
• Zoom Toggle to Finding Clips: if you have a busy session when you select a clip in the clip list, you may not be able to see it on the edit view. You can zoom toggle to view, “E”.
• Sort By
• Finding Clips: Under the clip list drop down menu arrow, you can choose “Find Clips” or use the short cut Shift Com F.
• When you search, Title of search will appear at the top.
• Clear Find: to get back to clip view.
• Auditioning Clips: option clicking on clips in the clip window lets you audition path defined under I/O settings.
• Placing Clips: We can drag clips from clip list to our edit window.
• Timeline Drop Order will define the track & clip look on our edit window.
• We can choose “snap to previous” or “snap to next” options to snap clips.
• Placing Clips with Playback Cursor
• Control + dragging a clip will align the start of the clip with the playback cursor.
• Command + control + dragging a clip will align the end of the clip with the playback cursor.
• Spot Mode: Use to manually type where you want to bring your clips in.
• Sync Point: Choose Identify Sync Point under Clip menu bar or (Command +,) short cut to get to it. We can only have one sync point on a clip.
• Clearing Clips:
  • Remove will remove the clip out of your session.
  • Delete will permanently delete the clip as a file in your desk as well.
• Renaming Clips: You can double click the clips with the grabber tool to rename clips or right click the clips in the clip list.
• You can also rename a bunch of clips all at once by “Auto Rename” under the drop down arrow in the clips list.
• Clip Info: You can choose rating under the clip menu bar. You can also choose current time for timebase info (bar/ beats or timecode etc), overlap and more.