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Hiding Auto-Created Regions

You can hide regions that were automati-

cally created during the course of editing.

To hide auto-created regions:

■ Deselect Display > Display Auto-Created

Regions. With this option deselected, only

user-created regions appear in the Audio

and MIDI Regions List.

User-defined regions include:

• Whole-ﬁle regions

• Regions created during recording

• Imported regions

• Renamed regions

• Regions created as a result of AudioSuite

processing

• New regions created with Capture Re-

gion and Separate Region commands

• Regions created by trimming whole-ﬁle

audio regions

When auto-created regions are hidden,

Pro Tools warns you if the number of auto-

created regions exceeds a certain threshold,

and gives you the option of deleting them.

If you choose to delete them, all auto-cre-

ated regions are deleted at the same time.

This prevents a large build-up of auto-cre-

ated regions, which can affect system per-

formance.

To ensure that you keep a particular auto-

created region, turn it into a user-created

region by renaming it. For details, see “Re-

naming Regions” on page 196.

Removing Unwanted Regions

You can locate and remove any unused re-

gions in a session with the Clear Selected

command.

▲ The Clear Selected command cannot be un-

done and should be used with care.

To ﬁnd and remove unused regions in a

session:

1 For MIDI regions, choose Select Unused

from the MIDI Regions List pop-up menu.

– or –

For all audio regions, including whole-file

regions, choose Select Unused > Regions

from the Audio Regions List pop-up menu.

– or –

For all audio regions except whole-file re-

gions, choose the Select Unused > Regions

Except Whole Files.

2 After all unused regions are selected,

choose Clear Selected from the Regions List

pop-up menu.

3 Click Remove to remove the unused re-

gions from the session.

– or –

If clearing a whole-file audio region and

you want to permanently remove the

audio file from your hard drive, click De-

lete.

Clear Selected dialog (audio regions)