How to I close AUDIO file gaps without video?

Question

I am editing audio files on my timeline for voiceovers without any video. How do I close the gaps between audio files without manually shifting each one to snap? I only see tutorials for video gaps.

Thanks

Jeff Bellune · Accepted Answer

There can't be any un-gapped clips in any of the other tracks for Sequence>Close Gap to work. If your sequence has anything other than the gapped audio in it, it won't work.

One quick way around this is to select all of the clips in the audio track where the gaps are (and only those clips) and select Clip>Nest.
That puts them in their own sequence.
Open that nested sequence and go to Sequence>Close Gap.
Select all of the un-gapped audio and copy it.
Go back to your original sequence, delete the nested sequence and paste the un-gapped audio.

cre8vimp · Answer

I am wondering this exact same thing. Just edited a VO (using the transcrition feature made this SO MUCH EASIER, thanks engineers!). But after deleting all the bad and only keeping the good, I have an audio track with a hundred ish separate little clips. I want to string them all together to sound like it was spoken perfectly that way (as you do). But "close gaps" doesn't seem to touch audio only clips... and the only tutorials I can find show how to delete gaps between video clips. This problem is quite common for VO work... am I missing something?

I've essentially done what MtD suggested here... but really... do we have to delete all of those hundreds of gaps manually? Maybe there's a more efficient way to do this kind of work in Audition, I don't know. Although using the transcription feature in Pr was so so so nice.

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