Specifications

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Managing Clips in the Clip
List
In the course of editing a session, the Clip List can
quickly fill up with many clips—with ones you
have created intentionally and also with those that
are automatically created by cutting, pasting, and
separating other clips, or importing Clip Group
files (or REX files as clip groups). Pro Tools lets
you hide or remove clips in your session so you do
not have to scroll through a long Clip List.
Hiding Auto-Created Clips
You can hide clips that were automatically created
during the course of editing.
To hide auto-created clips:
 From the Clip List menu, deselect Show > Auto-
Created
. With this option deselected, only user-
defined clips appear in the Clip List.
User-defined clips include:
• Whole-file clips
• Clips created during recording
• Imported clips
• Renamed clips
• Clips created as a result of AudioSuite process-
ing
• New clips created with the
Clip >
Capture
command or the Edit > Separate
Clip
commands
• Clips created by trimming whole-file
audio clips
When auto-created clips are hidden, Pro Tools
warns you if the number of auto-created clips ex-
ceeds a certain threshold, and gives you the option
of deleting them. If you choose to delete them, all
auto-created clips are deleted at the same time.
To ensure that you keep any specific auto-created
clips, rename them. When you name a clip, it is
promoted from being an auto-created clip to a user-
defined clip (see “Renaming Clips” on page 280).
Clearing Unwanted Clips
In the Clip List, you can select unwanted clips and
then use the
Clear command to remove them from
the session. Whole-file clips can also be perma-
nently removed from the hard drive on which they
are stored.
To find and remove unused clips in a session:
1 Do any of the following:
• For MIDI clips, from the Clip List menu, choose
Select > Unused.
• For audio clips, from the Clip List menu, choose
Select, then choose Unused, Unused Except
Whole Files
, or Offline.
The Clear command cannot be undone.