In this tutorial, aimed at both Pro Tools and Pro Tools First users, I will have a look at something very fundamental in Pro Tools, the Time Displays. There are lots of small and big (mostly green) numbers displayed everywhere for various purposes, but they all fall into two categories, "Time Locations" or "Time Durations".

Time Display Windows

Please note that this discussion about the time displays applies to any time scale, for example, Absolute Time in minutes and seconds or Relative Time (Musical Time) in bars and beats. In this tutorial, I use Musical Time in bars and beats.

Let's start with an overview to see which windows in Pro Tools display time information.