[museman]

Ben you were correct that I had the Pre-roll activated. That solution was also in the ProToolsQwikTips video. I actually discovered that this morning when I was comparing the edit window of other projects (with no issue) to this one and noticed that the small triangle at the very upper left of the edit/tracks window was yellow as opposed to white, which it was on my other projects. I’ve not used the pre-roll function yet but was exploring the feature with an instructional video and apparently did not deactivate it. I could have also seen that pre-roll was activated right on the transport, it just never dawned on me. Thanks for everyone’s input!!! This is the first time I’ve used this forum. What a wonderful resource! And I'll definitely spend time on the QwukTips videos.