Pro Tools: Editing Window Options

Video Transcript

"In this clip I'm going to talk to you about different editing window options. When I say different editing window options; there's different ways to view the editing arrangement window. Right now I have it set in grid, because we have been dealing with tempo and clicks. When making a beat or recording a lot of music you want everything to be steady and in time. In this grid, these little blue lines that show you all the way down to sixteenth note subdivisions, even as far down as thirty-second notes; I believe, if you'd like. But, you can set the differences of the subdivision and how many grids you have throughout the edit window. If you want to get rid of those grids you can work in slit mode. Slit mode allows you to move everything by milliseconds; therefore it's more of an ear. When you hear where it needs to go, where it's lined up, you're the one making that decision rather than pushing it to one, one, one, one. Shuffle allows you to move everything right up to the next region that it was in. You could highlight an intro region and hit delete and the regions behind it would push forward to where that region was. Spot is similar to slip, but it doesn't give you the same millisecond view. It's not used as much as the other three. Grid and slip are the two most used views."