help selecting with protools

[Jose Ignacio Triay]

Hey all. I'm a beginner using protools, with flowtools installed. I was checking the keyboard shortcuts, and it says that down arrow is used to start selection. So, I have an audio track imported into the protools session, but lets say I want to delete the beginning of the track. How do I do this. When i press down arrow to start selection, I don't get any feedback as to say if I have started selection or anything like that, and the scrubber tool is kind of out of the question for obvious reasons. Please Any help would be appreciated.
Igna

[Slau Halatyn]

Hi Ignasi

The arrow keys will only work when there's an insertion cursor in the track. There are a few things that need to be set up before being able to edit. You need to make sure that track and edit selections are linked under the Options menu. You should not have insertion following playback. Also, after importing audio, even though a track may be "selected," it does not have an insertion point until you either scrub or shuttle in a track or use Control P or Control semicolon to create or move the insertion cursor away from and back to the track you wish to edit. Other thing is that insertion needs to follow scrub in the Pro Tools Preferences. As you can see there are a number of variables that need to be in place. Once they're in place, you're good to go but I'm giving you the Reader's Digest version.

Hope that helps,

Slau

On Jan 15, 2020, at 12:35 PM, Jose Ignacio Triay <igna...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey all. I'm a beginner using protools, with flowtools installed. I was checking the keyboard shortcuts, and it says that down arrow is used to start selection. So, I have an audio track imported into the protools session, but lets say I want to delete the beginning of the track. How do I do this. When i press down arrow to start selection, I don't get any feedback as to say if I have started selection or anything  like that, and the scrubber tool is kind of out of the question for obvious reasons. Please Any help would be appreciated.
Igna 

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