Clips Window

To open the Clips window, open an audio montage and select Tool Windows > Clips.

Clip List

In the clip list columns, you can edit the following settings for each clip:

Name
Srce (Source)
Track number

You can click the track number to move the clip to another track.
Lane number

You can click the lane number to move the clip to another lane.
Pre-gap
Start and end time
Length
Pre-effect gain
Post-effect gain
Comment

You can also mute and lock clips, search for clip names, and play back a clip with or without pre-gap. The playback buttons work in the following way:

From Start with Pre-Roll

Playback from start with a pre-roll.

You can also press Alt and click From Start with Pre-Roll to play back from the start with a short pre-roll.

From Start

Playback from start.

The FX icon indicates that a clip contains one or more plug-ins. Double-clicking the FX icon opens the Inspector window.

To zoom in on the clip, click the name of the clip.
To select the time range corresponding to the clip, Alt-click the number to the left of the clip name.
To zoom in and select the time range at the same time, double-click the number to the left of the clip name.

Select Menu

Select All Clips: Selects all clips in the audio montage.
Select Clips on Selected Track: Selects all clips that are included in the selected track.
Select Clips Inside Selected Time Range: Selects all clips that are fully encompassed in the selected time range on all tracks.
Select Clip Located at the Cursor Position (on Active Track): Selects the first clip on the active track that overlaps with the cursor.
Select Clip Located at the Cursor Position (on All Tracks): Selects all clips on all tracks that overlap with the cursor.
Select Clips Located Before the Cursor (on Active Track): Selects all clips that have their end point to the left of the cursor on the active track.
Select Clips Located Before the Cursor (on All Tracks): Selects all clips that have their end point to the left of the cursor on all tracks.
Select Clips Located After the Cursor (on Active Track): Selects all clips that start to the right of the cursor on the active track.
Select Clips Located After the Cursor (on All Tracks): Selects all clips that start to the right of the cursor on all tracks.
Inverse Selection: Deselects all selected clips and selects all other clips.
Deselect All Clips: Deselects all selected clips.
Omit Reference Tracks from Select Commands: If this option is activated, the select commands in the Select menu are not applied to clips on reference tracks, except for Deselect All.

Functions Menu

Bounce Selected Clips

Renders the selected clips and replaces the clips with a single clip.

Create Super Clip from Selected Clips

Replaces the selected clips with a super clip that refers to a sub-montage.

Export Clip List as Text

Opens a plain text version of the clip list in the default text editor.

Batch Renaming

Opens the Batch Renaming dialog in which you can batch-rename any number of clips.

Use Audio File Name for Selected Audio Clips

Names each clip after the audio file to which it refers.

Update BWF Time Stamps (Selected Clips)

Updates the time stamp of each audio file that is referenced by a selected clip to reflect the clip position in the audio montage.

The file header of a WAV audio file may contain a time stamp in the Broadcast Wave Format. This time stamp makes it possible to insert audio at precise positions in different applications. The audio files are marked as modified and must be saved.

Move Selected Clips to Their Related BWF Time Stamp

Moves the selected clips to the positions that are contained in their source audio files, provided the audio files contain a time stamp.

Align Clips

Opens the Align Clips dialog which lets you align all selected clips on the selected track relative to one another.

Zoom in on Selected Clips

Zooms to fit all selected clips in the window.

Resize Selected Clips to Match the Active Clip

Uses the length of the active clip as reference to change the length of all selected clips.

Mute/Unmute Selected Clips

Mutes/Unmutes all selected clips.

Lock/Unlock Selected Clips

Locks the clip to avoid that it is accidentally edited.

Lock/Unlock Moving and Resizing

Locks the position and size of a clip. Other editing options are still possible.

Show/Hide Clip Ruler and Markers of Source File

Changes the visibility of the ruler and the marker display of the source audio files for all selected clips.

Options Menu

Only Show Selected Clips: If this option is activated, only clips that are selected in the montage window are displayed. This is useful to display only the clips that belong to a specific group (Clip Groups window) or to a specific audio file (File Browser window).
Show Audio Clips: If this option is activated, audio clips are displayed.
Show Clips of Reference Tracks: If this option is activated, clips that are located on reference tracks are displayed.
Show Video Clips: If this option is activated, video clips are displayed.
Show Picture Clips: If this option is activated, picture clips are displayed.
Show Global Pre-Gaps: Displays the length of the gap between the start of a clip and the end of the previous clip on any track in the Pre-Gap column. If the clips overlap, the length is displayed in red.
Show Pre-Gaps by Track: Displays the length of the gap between the start of a clip and the end of the previous clip on the same track. If the clips overlap, the length is displayed in red.
Zoom the Clip When Selected: If this option is activated when you select a clip in the list, the clip fills the track area in the most efficient way.
Make Clip Entirely Visible When Selected: If this option is activated when you select a clip in the list, the track area is scrolled and/or zoomed to display the whole clip.
Customize Command Bar: Opens the Customize Commands dialog, which contains options to hide or show specific command bar buttons.