Hi Abdul, Editing in Pro Tools is a vast subject but I'll try to explain why what you're doing will not work.
First, using the down and up arrows only works when the transport is engaged, either in Play back or shuttle mode. Once you scrub, the edit fields follow the insertion point which follows the scrubbing. So, in other words, once you begin scrubbing, your in point immediately changes to the scrub position. So, if you wish to use the down and up arrows, you have to engage the transport, use the down and up arrows to create the in and out points, stop the transport and then perform cut or copy or whatever you need. Here's what most people do: Play or scrub to the position you wish to be the beginning of the cut. Press Command-e to split the region. Scrub to the second point and use the same command for splitting regions, Command-e. Since you're at the end of a newly created region, press Shift-Option-tab to select back to the previous region boundary and now you can cut. Of course, if all you wanted to do was copy, then the first method is adequate. HTH, Slau On Sep 24, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Abdul D Kamara wrote: > Hello All, > > Ok, so here is another behaviour of PT that I just don't understand. > > I am using an MC Transport to edit my Audio. > So I down-mark from one point, scrub to the next and up-mark, which should > (apparently) select what I have scrubbed through right? Well assuming this > is right, not so... At least, when I play back it's almost as if I have not > made a selection and PT plays the whole of the region. Can anyone explain to > me what I am doing wrong? > > Abdul
