Strip Silence analyzes audio selections—across multiple tracks—and removes (or extracts) any areas of silence, dividing the selection into smaller clips and removing the silent areas.
You can use Strip Silence to strip (remove) silence from a clip, or instead, extract the audio and keep the silence. Getting rid of silent areas is useful when preparing to compact audio (see
Compacting an Audio File). Strip Silence automatically separates the selection into separate clips, which is useful if you want to quantize audio to musical values, or locate sound effects to SMPTE locations.