M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 1048)

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5 Enter the SMPTE frame location by doing one
of the following:
• If you are using VITC, you can press the
Equal (=) key on the numeric keypad, or
click Current Time Code to enter a paused
VTR’s current SMPTE location.
– or –
• If you are using LTC, when Time Code is se-
lected for the Time Scale, press the Equal
(=) key on the numeric keypad to capture
the incoming time code. When Bars|Beats
is selected for the Time Scale, press the
Equal key to capture the nearest measure.
6 If you recorded the region while online, you
can use the Original Time Stamp button to recall
and enter the SMPTE frame location at which
the region was originally recorded. You can also
access a user-defined Time Stamp by clicking the
User Time Stamp
button. See “Time Stamping”
on page 1031 for more information.
7 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 Trimmer 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 Trimmer tools in
Spot mode, the Spot dialog will appear, allowing
you to enter a value in the Start or End and Du-
ration 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
particular visual “hit point.”
Trimming a region that contains a sync point
(see “Identifying a Synchronization Point” on
page 1032) does not affect the SMPTE location
of the sync point, unless the region is trimmed
past the sync point.
Clicking a region with any of the Trimmer
tools will allow you to trim the region to the
current 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 1032). If the region con-
tains a Sync Point, the region is spotted to it.