EASIEST ways to ZOOM in PRO TOOLS | Beginners

welcome my friend and today you will learn how to zoom around in Pro Tools fast and efficiently I'll show you exactly what you need to focus on when it comes to getting around in your session fast [Music] I'm macro from mixing with macro and welcome to my channel I'm a professional recording and mixing engineer and I've done recording and mixing for major record labels and many Independent Artists and my goal is to help you streamline your recording and mixing process for fast and consistent results that is why I want to give you a gift that will take your mixing from zero to a hundred inside I'm giving you all my plug-in Secrets everything I use within my Pro Tools sessions to achieve an amazing mix in less than 30 minutes it's a quick read and you can get through it in less than 10 minutes right in the description down below check it out absolutely free now I want to show you the only thing that you need to focus on when it comes to zooming and Pro Tools all right I'm gonna show you how to zoom around in Pro Tools let me show you how I do it how I do it very efficiently the easy way to do it and I'm gonna show you some alternative ways to do it and take the ways that works best for you all right so we have the beat we have the vocals right these are all the vocals here and we want to zoom around in Pro Tools okay so here are some quick commands that I use to get around in Pro Tools and to use these quick commands you have to have keyboard Focus enabled all right so you see this little AZ at the end when it's grayed out it means that every time you try every time you try to do a shortcut or something it would not work so you have to have it enabled when you have it enabled and it's yellow like that then this keyboard shortcuts you use are going to work alright so make sure you have the keyboard focus on and that does it for the edit window so let's start my favorite my absolute favorite when it comes to zooming in Pro Tools is control F all right and what is F2 control F just puts you straight in on the audio so let's just say I wanted to zoom in on this piece of audio here I select it I hit Ctrl F boom it puts me right there up on the audio these are only horizontal Zoom that I'm showing you and then I'm going to show you vertical Zoom here is zoom on the horizontal plane so if I wanted to zoom in on this entire piece of audio here boom control F I'm back in if I wanted to zoom out I hit r okay now let's just say I zoom in on this piece of audio here but I want to see the entire session what you would then do is command a and command a fits the entire session to your screen alright so you can see the beat you can see all the vocals and if you had more vocals it would look even tinier to fit and you'd see everything is populate down there alright these are horizontal Zoom now the simplest that everyone knows is r on your keyboard and t r is a zoom out T is a zoom in and it pretty much zooms out and in on what you have selected so if I have the selected it zooms out if I have nothing selected it'll just zoom in on wherever my blinking my cursor is so it'll just zoom in on that alright so wherever it is R and T now there's alternative ways to zoom in if you have a trackpad you can just pinch it like just imagine you're zooming in on a photo and that's one way to do it on a trap pad trackpad if you do not have a mouse and to zoom out you just pinch you just pinch on there and that's that's how you can zoom like that it's a recent feature from Pro Tools but it's very good because other does have it you could use zoom pretty pretty cool like that and if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel you can hold option and then you can do to pretty much do the same thing with the scroll wheel when you hold option like that and again it just Zooms in on wherever you have Focus selected so if I have this selected I'm going to zoom in on that boom all right but my favorite instead of doing all these steps is still to select where I want to zoom in on and then option F and it just puts me right there I want to zoom back out option A now there's another set of options that you can use to zoom out so let's just say you didn't want to zoom out and see the entire session then there's different levels of Zoom so when you look at your numbers on top of your keyboard when you hit one you get assume like that two zoom in a little bit further three Zooms in a little bit further so let's just say I zoom in on this piece of audio here let's say we're really tight right and we're looking at it we're really really tight but I don't want to zoom out and see the entire session like that but we're really tight but I want to zoom out just a bit I hit three I zoom out just like that all right because that is that is a good skill to have simply because sometimes when you do the option and the scroll wheel you might overshoot it so you just want to zoom out like to there but you're so you're so in the moment you might over you might Zoom too much and then you just overshot then you gotta Zoom back in and all that stuff so I just hit three boom puts me where I need to be four that's the same thing two one and a brings everything like that all right so let's zoom in on the horizontal plane that's going in in and out like that now there's the vertical plane where you can zoom like this all right this is where you have to track Heights and all that stuff you can do track Heights you can tell that you want large mini or you can hold option and then click and then tell it what you want and it does it for all the tracks like that all right you can do it just like that all right so now for me the shortcut is much more efficient so the shortcut to zoom in and out is if you have the track selected like you can see here on lead one see that I just want to zoom this track vertically all I do is hold Ctrl and hit directional key up and it opens up the track for me and down closes the track up if I wanted it so I just say I'm doing something here and I'm done I was like all right I don't want to see this track anymore boom I can go to the next track all right just like that that's a vertical if you wanted to do all of the tracks vertically like make them big or smaller at the same time you do control option directional key up and down so up opens up everything and down closes up everything like that all right very very useful now if you have everything zoomed in like this let's just say it's pretty big like this and you're working on your beat or wherever you're working on a piece of vocal here and you want to fit everything just like how you can fit let's just zoom in here just like how you can fit the entire length of the beat within the window here but you want to fit all the tracks within the window I use control option command and I hit the up arrow and it fits all my tracks in the window like this just like that so let's just say I have more tracks I just open up our effects aux here to see what it would look like when I hit Ctrl option command to fit all of my tracks in the window right it makes it even smaller all right let's close this up fit it all in the Window Control option command boom just like that right these are the useful shortcuts that I used I don't use the zoom tool here you could do the the zoom mode if you want to there's other Zoom modes that you can use here yeah there's one more zoom mode that we should cover and it's to make the waveform bigger or smaller so let's just say you wanted the waveform to be a little bit bigger like that it's a zoom when you look at it you can zoom up on the waveform let's just zoom in on this let's just say we the waveform was small like this and then use them out and you can't really see much even if you make it bigger it's like you can't really tell the differences in between the levels within this piece of audio here so if we zoom out on the waveform and make it bigger now you can see there's Peaks there's valleys you can see there's in betweens you could see the nuances in between the vocal here so to do that it's option shift you hold option shift and then you use your scroll wheel to zoom in and out like that all right so that's a pretty good way of zooming around in Pro Tools you could use these tools to always find where you are in your session so you never get lost in your session that's the biggest biggest thing is to always know where you are when you're in your session and how to get around your session very very quickly and these are the essential tools that I use write them down practice them and use the ones that fit for you and work for you focus on these tools when it comes to zooming in Pro Tools and you will have no doubt no doubt in your mind as to where you need to be and how to get there so go ahead and implement inside of your workflow today and be sure to grab the cheat sheet down below again it's my gift to you that will make your mixes sound amazing see you in the next video peace 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Channel: Mixing With Macro

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Length: 9min 3sec (543 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 07 2023