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Pro Tools Reference Guide196
Consolidate Selection
Command
During the course of normal edit opera-
tions, a track may eventually contain many
regions. However, once a track or track
range (such as a verse or chorus) reaches a
satisfactory state, you may want to consol-
idate its regions into a single region—thus
making the material much more easy to
work with.
When consolidating an audio track, a new
audio file is written that encompasses the
selection range, including any blank space.
To consolidate regions within a track:
1 Using the Grabber or Selector, select the
regions to be consolidated.
– or –
To select all regions in a track, triple-click
in its playlist with the Selector.
2 Choose Edit > Consolidate.
A new, single region is created that replaces
the previously selected regions, including
any blank space. If working with an audio
track, a new audio file is written (with the
Audio Suite Duplicate Plug-In).
When consolidating audio regions with
the Consolidate Selection command, if the
selection contains muted regions, the
muted regions are treated as silence.
Whether or not a track is muted, or con-
tains Mute automation, does not affect the
Consolidate Selection command.
You can delete any unused regions from
the Regions List window. See “Removing
Unwanted Regions” on page 198 for de-
tails.
Managing Regions
A typical session can become quite busy
with many tracks and dozens of regions.
There are a number of things you can do,
however, to keep track of and manage a ses-
sion’s regions, which include:
Renaming existing regions
Specifying how auto-created regions are
named
Hiding auto-created regions
Removing unused regions
Renaming Regions
In the course of a session you can rename
regions to give them more descriptive
names, or merely to shorten or simplify an
existing name. When renaming a region
that was auto-created from an edit, the re-
gion becomes a user-defined region and is
displayed in the Regions List when auto-
created regions are hidden.
Perhaps the easiest way to rename a region,
if it resides in a track, is to double-click it
with the Grabber. However, if the region
does not yet reside in a track, or if you want
to rename several regions, use the Rename
Selected command.
To rename one or more regions:
1 If you will be renaming an auto-created
region, make sure to select Display > Auto-
Created Regions.
2 Select the region to be renamed in either
the Audio or MIDI Regions List. To rename
more than one region, Shift-click addi-
tional regions.