How to remove empty space from a multitrack session?
- November 21, 2023
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I often record hours of audio in multitrack sessions. I do a lot of work within the session before editing even begins. I have markers, mixing, effects, and so on, often as a result of going over the recorded material with the artists, and I keep all those markers and notes in the long multitrack session in order to know where my splices will be, and it helps keep things synced with any recorded video that I may also need to splice alongside my audio.
As a result, it is much easier to continue working within the same session. If I start a new session and copy/paste my audio in, none of my markings follow (and yes, I know you can now mark individual clips within a multritrack, but the feature is underdeveloped for my needs). So instead, I start editing in the same session (saving versions as I go). As I edit and trim the time down, the session drops from 3 hours, to 2 hours, to 1 hour, to perhaps as little as 5 minutes of audio spliced together. And then I'm left with all this &%@#$*! EMPTY SPACE I DON'T NEED.
CAPS LOCK EQUALS ANGER.
FEEL. MY. WRATH.
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Anyways, does anyone have a good solution to get rid of this empty space? I may just need guidance on importing my audio, session settings, markers, metadata, etc. into a new multitrack. The empty space sometimes accumulates before my track, depending on where I begin splicing and how everything falls into place after that, but mainly the empty space accumulates after my the main chunk of audio that I've spliced and mixed. It's ridiculously annoying having a 3 hour timeline when audio clips occupy just a few minutes of the timeline.
My included screenshot is of a simpler, more organized session with all the audio I've spliced and mixed pressed up to 0:00.000 on the timeline, so it looks fairly clean. It's just a pain working in the multitrack editor because of all the empty space after my audio.
And no, selecting all the empty space and pressing "delete", "backspace", or "cut" yields nothing. There are no small, hidden audio clips accidentally prolonging this empty timeline.
This is obviously not a life/death issue, but it has been this way for years, and I am FED UP with this nonsense. Oohoh, there are children starving in Africa? Come on, I've got real problems.
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