Pro Tools:Create memory locations and markers

Pro Tools creating markers (memory locations)
To create markers (memory locations) follow these steps.

Make sure the marker display is visible in the ruler bar in Pro Tools. Go to View > Ruler > Marker



You can then place markers by pushing the Enter key (mac) on the numeric keypad

A dialog will appear and you can name the marker as well as define some additional properties.



Markers are one of many properties of what are called memory locations which store additional time based information.

You can access memory locations from the Memory Locations window.

Marker
This recalls a timeline references that can be either Bar/Beat/Tick or a sample based reference ([[absolute time|absolute)

Selection
This saves an edit selection that can be retrieved from the memory locations window

None
Ignores time properties.

General Properties
General properties are pieces of information that get stored with memory locations.

Number
The number can be used to reorder markers or to overwrite existing memory locations

Name
This names the marker

Zoom Settings
The current zoom setting gets stored along with the marker.

Pre/Post Roll Times
The current Pre and Post roll times get stored with the marker

Track Show/Hide
This recalls tracks that are hidden

Track Heights
Track height gets stored with marker

Group Enables
Recalls which Edit and Mix Groups are enabled.

Window Configuration
This recalls the current window configuration.

Memory Locations window
You can access the memory locations window by going to Windows > Memory locations



The view filter allows (shown below) you to hide memory locations based on the properties they contain.If a memory location has more than one property associated with it you will need to select both properties to hide it from the list



From left to right they are:

Marker, Edit selection, Zoom settings, Pre/Post roll, Show/Hide,Track heights,Active Groups, and Window configuration

Change default time reference
To set the default memory location time reference in Pro Tools you need to select a different time reference in the Pro Tools ruler bar (image below).



Also See

 * Pro Tools:Marker selection with key commands
 * Pro Tools: Automatically name markers (markers on the fly)