General video editing – Avid Technology Pro Tools HD 7.2 User Manual
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General Video Editing
With Pro Tools 7.2, most editing operations
that are available for audio regions can be ap-
plied to video regions. This section describes all
available video editing operations. Unless
noted, the procedure for each video editing op-
eration is the same as its audio editing counter-
part.
Basic Video Editing Features
• Nondestructive editing
• Display of region names, region times, and
other data in playlists
• Multiple video playlists
• Multiple Undo
• Video regions and video region groups in Re-
gion List
• All Edit modes
• All Edit Tools (except for Time Compression
Expansion and Pencil tools)
Playing and Selecting Video Track Material
• Selecting within video frame boundaries (see
“Selecting within Video Frame Boundaries”
on page 99)
• Selecting and editing across multiple Video
and audio tracks (see “Selecting and Editing
Across Multiple Audio and Video Tracks” on
page 99)
• Link or unlink track and edit selections
• Auto-scroll video tracks
• Loop playback
• Universe window (see “Video in the Universe
Working with Regions and Selections
• Capture regions
• Separate regions and Separate Grabber Tool
• Region overlap and underlap
• All trimming commands except for TCE
• Heal separated regions
• Place, align, slide, shuffle, and spot regions
• Sync points
• Nudging
• Shift command
• Quantize region to Grid (rounds to nearest
video frame)
• Replace region command
• Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear commands
• Special Cut, Copy, Paste, and Clear com-
mands
• Repeat to fill selection
• Editing across multiple tracks
• Duplicate command
• Repeat command
• Region groups (see “Video Region Groups” on
• Region looping
Managing Regions
• Insert “silence” (see “Inserting Black” on
• Compact Selected (nothing happens to the
video, and at least one audio track must be se-
lected)
• All naming and displaying of region com-
mands
See the Pro Tools Reference Guide for de-
tailed information on performing editing
operations.