Brilliant Slau. That works perfectly. Thanks so much for all your help.

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> On 4 Dec 2014, at 20:38, Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> Control-n toggles the insertion following playback or not. Simple.
> 
> Further, if you have an in point, why not split the region? Command-e will 
> split the region where the insertion is. Then you can get to anywhere in the 
> timeline by pressing asterisk on the num pad, entering the value and pressing 
> enter. When you get to where you want to make the out point, pause the 
> transport, press Option-Tab while holding down the Shift key to select to the 
> previous region boundary (which would be the place where you split the region 
> and that's it. If you need to select across multiple regions, just press 
> those commands multiple times and you should be good.
> 
> Slau
> 
>> On Dec 4, 2014, at 3:31 PM, David Eagle <onlineea...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for that Slau, very helpful as ever.
>> 
>> What I liked about Sonar was that I could make a start selection, press 
>> space bar to stop audio, then skip forward quickly into another part of the 
>> project, then make an end selection. Pressing space bar would not get rid of 
>> my start selection point. This was very useful, especially for the work I do 
>> which is largely with speech. I also liked the fact that the space bar would 
>> essentially pause the audio, whereas in PT, the space bar starts playback at 
>> the selection point. There doesn’t seem to be a way of pausing playback and 
>> restarting from where I stopped. The closest I can get to recreating this is 
>> to press number 2 on the numeric keypad, which stops playback and moves the 
>> project on about half a second. The only way to be able to make a selection 
>> where I select a start point, stop the audio and move through the file 
>> quickly and then restart playback and make an end selection, is to unlink 
>> timeline and edit selection and track and edit selection. But you and others 
>> seem to warn against this.
>> 
>> I don’t know whether there are anyways to do this. I suppose I could use 
>> markers to get past the issue of PT unselecting my audio whenever I change 
>> position and press the space bar. 
>> 
>> Sorry to be contrary. I’m just trying to get used to doing quick audio 
>> editing in PT, and it doesn’t seem practical to have to sit and wait for the 
>> part of the project to come along when I want to make my end selection 
>> point. I know that I want to cut the next minute of audio, so I don’t need 
>> to listen to it, I need to get to my end point quickly.
>> 
>> Thanks for you patients and help.
>> 
>> 
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