M-AUDIO Pro Tools Recording Studio - Manual (Page 525)

Chapter 25: Editing Regions and Selections 507
To consolidate regions within a track:
1 Do one of the following:
• Using the Time Grabber or Selector tool, se-
lect the regions you want to consolidate.
– or –
• To select all regions in a track, triple-click in
its playlist with the Selector tool.
2 Choose Edit > Consolidate.
Compacting an Audio File
The Compact command deletes unused portions
of audio files to conserve disk space, and to pre-
pare for cleaner hard drive back-ups. The Com-
pact Selected
command also deletes any audio
files for which there are no regions on tracks ref-
erencing those files.
Because it permanently deletes audio data, the
Compact
command should be used only after
you have completely finished your editing and
are sure that you have no further use for the un-
used audio data.
The Compact command can pad the regions of
the compacted file by a selectable amount. If re-
gions in your session use crossfades, or if you
want to pad the regions for the sake of any fu-
ture trimming, you should enter an appropriate
amount of padding (in milliseconds).
To compact an audio file:
1 In the Region List, select the region or regions
you want to compact.
2 From the Region List menu, choose Compact.
3 Enter the amount of padding in milliseconds
that you want for each region in the file.
4 Click Compact to compact the file or Cancel to
cancel the command.
Once the Compact command has been com-
pleted, the session is saved automatically.
Processing Audio with
AudioSuite Plug-ins
The AudioSuite plug-ins included with your
Pro Tools system can be used to process and
modify audio regions or even entire audio files.
Do this in order to apply a specific AudioSuite
process (such as Normalization or DC Offset Re-
moval) to any number of audio regions in your
session.
Press Alt+Shift+3 (Windows) or
Option+Shift+3 (Mac) to Consolidate.
The Compact command is destructive and
cannot be undone. It permanently alters the
original audio files. There is no way to
recover data deleted by this command.
For more information about AudioSuite
plug-ins, see Chapter 37, “AudioSuite Pro-
cessing.”