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Most of us are aware of the commonly used keyboard shortcuts for things like New Track, Save Session, making an Edit, etc. However, there are some less well-known keyboard shortcuts in Pro Tools based around the 3 fingered salute and it’s these we are going to focus on in this article.
To become fluent in managing automation it really helps if you can see what you need to see when you need to see it. This keyboard shortcut really helps speed things up. Find out more in this free tip.
Here’s a really handy tip which will speed up your editing. When trimming, if you want to trim exactly to the boundary of the next or previous clip, check out this article to learn all about this.
Navigating large sessions can be hard work if you’re not used to it. Once the edit window gets deeper than your screen you have a few choices, you can hide some tracks, you can reduce the size of the tracks or you can scroll up and down the edit window. Going straight to the track you’re interested in can be done by using Scroll to Track Command but there is a faster way using the Tracks List in the left hand sidebar.
If your MIDI is always either off the top or the bottom of the editor use these two shortcuts to take control of what you’re seeing.
Do you know how the keyboard modifiers affect what your scroll wheel or trackpad does? Brush up in this free Pro Tools tip article.
To get the most out of Playlists there are a few shortcuts it’s useful to have under your fingers. Here are our top three…
Learn Pro Tools In 5 Shortcuts? Maybe not but these 5 shortcuts are a great place to start if you want to speed up your editing.
Pro Tools makes it easy to identify different elements of your session and with the tools available to help there’s really no excuse for having tracks called “Audio 1” in your session. In this tip Julian looks at some of the ways you can tidy up a session’s naming
In this free Pro Tools tip Pro tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers offers a handy way of showing and hiding elements of the transport window without going into the Transport window’s menu.
Pro Tools Keyboard Shortcuts. There are just so many. Some are very well known, some really obscure but there is a middle ground of what I consider essential but in my experience aren’t as widely known as they should be. Here are six. You’ll probably know some of them. Do you know them all?
Julian considers changing how he uses tab in Pro Tools after being reminded of a useful keyboard shortcut on an Editors Keys shortcut keyboard.
Using the numeric keypad’s plus and minus keys, nudging offers a way to move clips, clip boundaries and many other things up and down the timeline by specified amounts. There are lots of variations on the nudge shortcuts. One of the simplest and most useful is adding Shift. To see what it achieves check out this free tip.
Pro Tools has SO many functions, some of which have been cleverly added over time thanks to user experience feedback, so well done you! In my first article, I covered the first 7 Pro Tools functions I could not live without and in this article I am going to cover the second batch of 7 Pro Tools functions I could not live without.
In this free video Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers demonstrates a useful tip showing how it is possible to duplicate a clip backwards down the timeline, creating a duplicate before the clip being duplicated rather than after it.
In this article, Lucy is going to share here the first 7 of 14 Pro Tools functions I could not live without. There are lots of different ways to do things in Pro Tools, which suit an individual’s needs, so this is not a list of all the shortcuts, this is purely a list of the functions themselves.
In this free video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers demonstrates how to use two features of Pro Tools to speed up the process of checking edits for issues.
this free video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers troubleshoots potential conflicts with the three record keyboard shortcuts on a Mac and demonstrates how to abort a record pass and keep your clips list tidy.
In this free video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers revisits the basics and demonstrates how to clear unused clips from the clips list.