Importing and Exporting Clip Group Files

Pro Tools can export and import clip groups as clip group files (.cgrp) to do any of the following:

Separate clip group metadata from audio files to avoid unnecessary file copy operations when exporting audio clip groups composed from multiple source files

Export MIDI data as part of a clip group

Create multitrack loops

Clip groups created in Pro Tools 10 (.cgrp) cannot be imported into lower versions of Pro Tools, but region groups (.rgp) created in lower versions of Pro Tools can be imported into Pro Tools 10.

Clip group files store the following metadata:

References to all audio files within the clip group

Clip names and relative location in tracks

Embedded fades and crossfades

Clip gain settings for the clip groups as well as for individual clips within the group

Clip group names and format (single or multitrack)

All MIDI data present in the clip group (such as notes, controllers, Sysex, and so on)

Track names

Elastic Audio Warp markers and TCE factor

Clip timebase (samples or ticks)

Sync points

Loops

Tempo map

Clip group files do not store the following:

Automation

Plug-ins

Track routing

Meter map

Clip List information

For more information, see Importing and Exporting Clip Group Files.