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Chapter 24: Making Selections 473
Chapter 24: Making Selections
Linking or Unlinking Timeline
and Edit Selections
Pro Tools lets you link or unlink the Timeline
and Edit selections.
When the Timeline and Edit selections are
linked, selecting in a track’s playlist (making an
Edit selection) also defines the play and record
range (the Timeline selection).
Unlinking Timeline and Edit selections lets you
make a selection within a track for editing pur-
poses that is distinct from the selection in the
Timeline (which determines the playback and
recording range).
To link or unlink the Timeline and Edit selections,
do one of the following:
„ Select or deselect Options > Link Timeline and
Edit Selection .
– or –
„ In the Edit window, a MIDI Editor window, or
the Score Editor window, click the Link Timeline
and Edit Selection button so it becomes high-
lighted (selected) or un-highlighted (not se-
lected). Enabling or disabling the Link Timeline
and Edit Selection button in any editor window
affects all editor windows.
If you are working on a film or video scene, you
may want to unlink the Timeline and Edit selec-
tions to find or audition material that is at a dif-
ferent location than the current Timeline selec-
tion. Edit selections can be played (choose Edit >
Selection > Play Edit
) without disrupting the cur-
rent Timeline selection. Once you find the ma-
terial, you can then go back to the Timeline se-
lection and place it within the context of the
scene.
Figure 24 illustrates another reason why you
might want to unlink the Timeline and Edit se-
lections. In this example, the Timeline selection
sets a range to be looped on playback, while a
MIDI region (residing within the loop) is se-
Link Timeline and Edit Selection button enabled in the
Edit window
Press Shift+Forward Slash (/) to toggle Link
Timeline and Edit Selection on and off.
Link Timeline and Edit Selection