Spotting made (more) easy?

[nucelar]

Hi all,
After a fatal blackout in our studio I found myself in the need of spotting many regions back to its original time stamp into a new session. I'm finding no other way than manually dragging each region from the region list into the timeline, clicking on the original timestamp arrow in the spot dialog and hitting enter. Is there a way to either: a) Select multiple regions from the list and spot them all at once? or b) directly spot the region to the original timestamp bypassing the Spot dialogue (using some secret alt-command-shift-control combo)? That would be useful.. At least for me. now.
Carles

[Craig F]

auto spot mode- no dialog box jut drop on the track and it jumps to it's original time stamp.
the toggle is under Operations drop down I think

[nucelar]

Hi Craig,
I dont't know if I'm doing something completely wrong but Auto-spot does not work for me in this case (does nothing). Actually I tried that feature and read the manual before posting, but it seems to be needing VITC or MachineControl which I don't use. Thanks for responding anyway.
Carles

[Craig F]

what file format are you using?

I don't have Machine Control and rarely use VITC and have had Auto Spot work (actually it's more like "Hay, why am I not getting the dialog window and were is my clip going!" hence my request for Spot and Auto Spot to toggle like Grid Mode dose)

[nucelar]

I'm using BWF(WAV). BTW I tried it again on another session and now when autospotting any region it always spots it to the beginning of the session.
I just noticed I have posted this in the TDM forum and that happened on one of our 6.9 LE rigs. But i doubt it would make any difference anyway.
Carles

[Craig F]

Are you trying to spot back into the original session or a new one?
if new could session start times or time in general be way different?

[Carl Sealove]

I don't use VITC or Machine Control. I want Auto-Spot mode to function in the following manner:
•In Spot Mode - select audio file or region from the region list (or from Digibase)
•Drag to desired track
•With Auto-Spot turned on the audio automatically spots to the original timestamp, bypassing the spotting dialog box.

I can't seem to make it work like this.