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5 Click OK. The General Properties Memory Lo-
cation is created and appears in the Memory Lo-
cations window.
Creating Memory Locations On-the-Fly
When the Editing preference for “Auto-Name
Memory Locations When Playing” is enabled,
Memory Locations can be created during play-
back, without raising the New Memory Location
dialog. This option can also be selected from the
pop-up menu in the Memory Locations win-
dow.
This capability is useful if you want to mark cer-
tain locations while listening during a record
pass, or if you want to mark frame locations
while viewing a video scene.
To create a Marker during playback:
1 From the pop-up menu in the Memory Loca-
tions window, select Default To Marker. This en-
sures that new Memory Locations default to
being Markers.
2 From the pop-up menu in the Memory Loca-
tions window, select Auto-Name Memory Loca-
tions.
3 For inserted Markers to have a Bar|Beat refer-
ence, make sure to set the Main Time Scale to
Bars:Beats.
4 Click Play in the Transport window.
5 When the location is reached, press Enter on
the numeric keypad. A Marker is automatically
created and appears in the Markers ruler.
Auto-created Markers are named with increasing
numbers, as in “Marker 1,” “Marker 2,” and
“Marker 3.”
When the option for Default To Marker is dese-
lected, new Memory Locations default to what-
ever type was last created. Therefore, if a Selec-
tion Memory Location was created last, it will be
the type that is created on-the-fly. In this case,
the name for the created Memory Location is
based on the start of the Edit selection using the
time format for the Main Time Scale (such as
“2|2|305” or “0:02.658”).
In the New Memory Location dialog, you
can Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click
(Mac) any General Property to enable or dis-
able all properties. You can also Control-
click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac)
any property to toggle its state and the state
of all other General Properties.
When Use Separate Play and Stop Keys op-
tion is enabled in the Operation Preferences
page, it overrides using the Enter key to add
Memory Location markers. When this op-
tion is enabled, press Period (.) and then En-
ter on the numeric keypad to add a Memory
Location marker. The new marker is created
when you press Enter.
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