Hi Slau,
I agree this way your just a "up arrow" away from a selection end point!
Years ago when i first moved from my 2 inch machine i wanted to
operate from a tape deck prospective but in PT Its much faster just to
mark a edit in and out and then just sit back and "Smoke a cigar!" If
I smoked that is! LOL
Talk soon
On Jul 17, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Slau Halatyn wrote:
Hey Clarence,
Control-Space Bar actually puts the transport into a Pause with Pre-
Prime for instant playback. This is what that means:
If you have a large session, say, 24 tracks record enabled or even
on an LE system, say, 16 tracks ready to record in QuickPunch mode,
the system is going to allocate drive space, prepare voices,
automation data (if there is any) and a few other things. If you
simply start the recording or even playback, there will be a pause
before the transport engages. This can vary from a second to several
seconds if it's a particularly large session. In order to have a
more immediate start to playback, it's possible to pre-prime the
deck, as they say, for instant playback or recording. Pressing
Control-Space Bar puts Pro Tools into this Pause mode. Simply
pressing the Space Bar after that instantly starts playback.
Further, Control-Command-Space Bar puts PT into Pre-Primed Record
mode so pressing Space Bar after that instantly puts the Transport
into record mode.
Pausing the transport, the way most people think of pausing
something, is a bit different. Pro Tools has two main behaviors: 1.
Is for the transport to remember the start position and, if the
transport is stopped, it will keep resuming playback from the same
start position unless that start position is specifically changed,
and 2. Insertion following Playback which means that wherever you
press the space bar, the transport will keep the insertion point
there and, upon pressing space bar again, will continue playing from
that location.
I would strongly suggest using the default method which is for the
insertion point to not follow playback. Here's the reason. When you
make a selection, pressing the space bar will play only the selected
range. No matter how many times you press play, it'll only play the
selected range. This is a good means to verify your selection range
quickly without even having to look at the start, End and Length
fields in the edit window. From there, one can cut, copy paste, etc.
Now, if the insertion point follows playback, as soon as you play
the selection, the selection is actually lost. It's very obvious to
a sighted user but it can be confusing to a blind user.
Here are two things one can do for alternatives:
1. If you really want to get into that other mode where it just
pauses when you hit the space bar, pressing Control-n toggles this
playback mode and the preference is also in the Setups>Preferences
dialog and is called "Insertion Follows Playback."
2. If the transport is engaged, and you find a spot you want to
start playback from, simply pressing the down arrow will
automatically populate the start field with the current transport
value. In other words, if, while the transport is engaged, you press
the down arrow at the 2 minute mark, the start field will now say
"2:00:000" and if you press space bar, the transport will stop but,
upon playback, will now start from the 2 minute mark.
Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me know if there's something that
isn't clear.
Best,
Slau
On Jul 17, 2010, at 1:23 PM, clarence griffin wrote:
I thought control + Space was to pause my project? Its not working.
Is there something I have to turn on in setup or something? I
looked all over, and didn't find anything.
Thanks.
GF
Chuck Reichel
954-742-0019
www.SoundPictureRecording.com
