Consolidating Clips

During the course of normal edit operations, any track can accumulate many clips. However, once a track or track range (such as a verse or chorus) reaches a satisfactory state, you may want to consolidate multiple clips into a single clip.

When consolidating an entire audio track or just an Edit selection, a new audio file is written that consists of the entire selection, including any blank space.

When consolidating, muted clips are treated as silence. Otherwise, whether or not a track is muted, or contains Mute automation, does not affect the Consolidate command.

Consolidating an audio track does not consolidate underlying automation data. To create a single file with automation data applied to the audio, use Bounce to Disk (see Bounce to Disk).

To consolidate clips within a track:

1 Do one of the following:

Using the Time Grabber or Selector tool, select the clips you want to consolidate.

– or – 

To select all clips in a track, triple-click in its playlist with the Selector tool.

2 Choose Edit > Consolidate.

 

Press Alt+Shift+3 (Windows) or Option+Shift+3 (Mac) to Consolidate.