User Manual

Chapter 38: Time, Tempo, Meter, Key, and Chords 849
Tempo Event-generated Warp markers cannot be
edited. They only show where the audio has been
warped in order to conform to tempo changes.
Tempo Changes and Tick-Based
Audio Tracks
When a tick-based audio track has multiple clips,
and Elastic Audio is not enabled, an increase in
tempo can cause neighboring clips to overlap. Au-
dio clips can be set to display a “shadow” to indi-
cate overlapping clip boundaries.
To toggle the display of Overlap Shadows:
 Choose View > Clip > Overlap Shadows.
Changing Clip Overlap/Underlap
After tempo changes with tick-based audio, and
other edits, clips may overlap in undesired ways.
To correct this, a clip can be brought to the front, or
sent behind neighboring clips as needed.
To change the clip overlap or underlap:
1 In the Edit window, choose the clip or clips you
want to re-order.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose
Clip > Bring to Front to make the clip
overlap the neighboring clips.
• Choose
Clip > Send to Back to make the clip
underlap the neighboring clips.
If multiple overlapping clips are selected,
Pro Tools will apply the command to each clip as
that clip relates to the neighboring clip on the right.
Conform to Tempo
Pro Tools lets you conform clips on Elastic Audio-
enabled tracks (both sample- and tick-based) to the
session tempo. If necessary, the
Conform to Tempo
command analyzes the selected clips to determine
its tempo and duration (in bars and beats), and then
applies Elastic Audio processing to conform the
clip to match the session tempo.
To conform a clip to the session tempo:
1 Select the clip you want to conform to the ses-
sion tempo.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose
Clip > Conform to Tempo.
• Right-click the clip you wan to conform to
tempo and select
Conform to Tempo.
Pro Tools analyzes the clip’s entire file for Elastic
Audio events and tempo. If a tempo is detected,
and a duration in bars and beats is determined, the
clip conforms automatically to the session tempo.
If a tempo and duration is not detected (such as
with a clip that is a single drum hit or with a long
clip with no clear tempo), the clip is not conformed
to the session tempo.
If you change the track timebase from ticks to
samples, any Tempo Event–generated Warp
markers convert to regular, editable Warp
markers.
Outer clips overlapping middle clip, Overlap Shadows
enabled
Overlap clip
Underlap clip
Overlap clip
You can also use telescoping warp in Warp
view to manually conform a long clip to the
session tempo. See “Telescoping Warp” on
page 981.