red arrows- can't edit

[bifbangpow]

I'm sure this is a simple fix, but I am inept. While editing, I somehow accidentally created two small red arrows up in the timeline and now no matter where i click on the track with the cursor, the playback only plays from the spot marked by the red arrows. How can I fix this. I want to delete whatever I created.
correction: now the arrows are blue not red... and ive also noticed a strange yellow marking that looks like a stick and two dots not too far from the blue arrows.... ugh i cant undo this?

Attached is a screen shot.

[Carl Kolchak]

Originally Posted by bifbangpow

I'm sure this is a simple fix, but I am inept. While editing, I somehow accidentally created two small red arrows up in the timeline and now no matter where i click on the track with the cursor, the playback only plays from the spot marked by the red arrows. How can I fix this. I want to delete whatever I created.
correction: now the arrows are blue not red... and ive also noticed a strange yellow marking that looks like a stick and two dots not too far from the blue arrows.... ugh i cant undo this?

Attached is a screen shot.

First thing you want to do is go in to preferences, and turn on "tool tips".

Next thing you want to do is hover your mouse over the icons above the top left of the edit window, until the "tool tips" pop-up window tells you that you have found the "Link Edit & Time Line Selection" button.

When you've mastered that, learn the short cut :

Shift + /

You can also turn that function on from the options (if I remember correctly) menu.


The arrows are the Time Line Selection.

They're normally blue, but turn red if you have a track armed for recording, which you must have done by accident - either by errant mouse click, hardware controller, or by hitting the shortcut :

Shift + R


The "Stick with the two dots" is the Edit Selection.

By having them un-linked from the Time Line Selection, you can work on a specific section, without loosing the overall area of playback you want to hear - they can be played back independently of one another if you are in Command Focus mode (small "A..Z" button in top right of edit window) using the following shortcuts :

Edit Selection = [

Timeline Selection = ]


It sounds like you really ought to have them linked, in order to stop any confusion.

But for future reference, you make edit selections by clicking (and dragging / highlighting / Shift + clicking if you want an area selected) in the area of the track where media is placed.

You make time line selections by clicking (and dragging / highlighting / Shift + clicking if you want an area selected) in the ruler along the top of the media area.


The other fundamental thing, that people forget to do, is to actually use / read / search the PDF manual that comes installed with Pro Tools, and get it straight from the horses mouth.

[bifbangpow]

Thank you so much! It's difficult to use the manual when you don't know what you are looking for. I'm still not sure I understand what happened, to be honest.

[Carl Kolchak]

Originally Posted by bifbangpow

Thank you so much! It's difficult to use the manual when you don't know what you are looking for. I'm still not sure I understand what happened, to be honest.

You probably just inadvertently hit those shortcuts I mentioned, without knowing it.

Easily done.