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.
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, bus record the source track to another track or use Export Audio Mix (see
“Export Audio Mix” on page 815).
To consolidate clips within a track:
1. Do one of the following:
Using the Grabber or Selector tool, select the clips you want to consolidate.
To select all clips in a track, triple-click in the track with the Selector tool.
2. Choose Edit > Consolidate.
Press Option+Shift+3 (Mac) or Alt+Shift+3 (Windows) to Consolidate.