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Navigating and selecting with precision

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Navigating and selecting with precision

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- [Instructor] Positioning the edit cursor, or selection at a precise location, can be challenging and frustrating especially if you're not yet comfortable with the many ways to zoom and scroll in Pro Tools, and regardless, sometimes you may not want to change the visual display of your session if you don't need to. Pro Tools provides some simple techniques to help you position your edit cursor to precise events in your session. Here we'll discuss the basic techniques and then add some modifier keys to extend the functionality. For starters, we're going to use the tab key in Pro Tools. I've positioned my edit cursor at the beginning of the bass track here to demonstrate how to move forward to the beginning of the first clip. The tab function in Pro Tools does just that. Pressing the tab key here, moves the edit cursor forward to the clip boundary. Now if I press tab a second time, my edit cursor will move forward again to the end of the clip boundary. If you're having a hard time…

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