Pro Tools Automation Tips: Grabber Tool

Video Transcript

"Now the grabber tool acts a little bit differently. The grabber tool basically makes these little break points within whatever the automation is or the volume or whatever. And you can actually grab these little points, and move them around, all right, so what I can do is take the grabber tool, right, and I'm going to put it right to this part. What I do is press the mouse button to put these little points. Now what I can do is move these little points. Now see how it kind of moves the rest of it? It's kind of, I kind of don't want to do that 'cause it might affect things that I don't want it to affect. So what I usually do is try to do multiple ones, you know what I'm saying, so now it's only affecting within this little range that I got, you know what I'm saying, so now I'm able to kind of sculpt it to the way I want. Now, this is a pretty cool tool because it definitely helps you pick little points and create little quick changes pretty easily. I like this tool because it's part of the smart tool, and this is the one that you probably use a lot because of smart tool. You can also do different things as far as like with the mutes and things like that, like grabbing the mutes and creating you know like different breakpoints between - at the beginning and end of words so you can mute certain tracks and bring them up and bring them down."