Creating Memory Locations During Playback

When the Auto-Name Memory Locations When Playing option is enabled in the Editing Preferences page, Memory Locations can be created during playback, without opening the New Memory Location dialog. This option can also be selected from the Memory Locations Window menu.

This capability is useful if you want to mark certain 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 Memory Locations Window menu, select Default To Marker. This ensures that new Memory Locations default to being Markers.

2 From the Memory Locations Window menu, select Auto-Name Memory Locations.

3 For inserted Markers to have a Bar|Beat reference, make sure to set the Main Time Scale to Bars|Beats.

4 Click Play in the Transport.

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, for example, “Marker 1,” “Marker 2,” and “Marker 3.”

When the Default To Marker option is deselected, new Memory Locations default to whatever type was last created. Therefore, if a Selection Memory Location was created last, it will be the type that is created during playback. 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”).

When Use Separate Play and Stop Keys option is enabled in the Operation Preferences page, it overrides using the Enter key to add Memory Location markers. When this option is enabled, press Period (.) and then Enter on the numeric keypad to add a Memory Location marker. The new marker is created when you press Enter.