Chapter 20: Working with Regions and Selections 437
Nudging a Region’s Contents
Often a region’s start point will reside at the cor-
rect location, perhaps at a SMPTE frame or bar,
but the material within the region starts too late
or early. You can, in effect, nudge a region’s au-
dio waveform or MIDI notes without displacing
the region’s start and end points.
This “sliding” of region contents is only possible
if there is material residing outside the region’s
start and end points—from the region having
been trimmed, or perhaps captured from a larger
region.
To nudge the contents of a region without
changing the region start and end points:
1 Configure the Nudge value (see “Defining the
Nudge Value” on page 435).
2 With the Time Grabber tool, select the region
whose contents you want to nudge.
3 While pressing the Start key (Windows) or
Control (Mac), press Plus (+) or Minus (–) on the
numeric keypad to move the material by the
Nudge value.
Shift Command
Use the Shift command to move track material
forward or back in time by a specified amount.
The Shift command can operate on selections,
regions, MIDI notes, MIDI controller data, and
automation breakpoints.
To shift a selection or region:
1 With the Selector or Time Grabber tool, select
the track material you want to shift. The se-
lected material can reside on multiple tracks.
2 Choose Edit > Shift. In the Shift dialog, select
whether the data will be moved Earlier or Later.
3 Click in one of the Timebase fields to specify
the amount by which the material will be
shifted. Entering a value in one Timebase field
automatically updates the others.
4 If you want to shift material with greater pre-
cision, select the Use Subframes option.
5 Click OK. The material is shifted earlier or
later by the specified amount.
If a portion of a region was selected, new regions
are created from the selection and from any ma-
terial outside of the selection.
Nudging region content
Region contents are slid, moving waveform material
into and out of the current region boundaries
before
after
Shift dialog
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