Audio Montage Consolidation

The Consolidate option helps you to keep track of any changes to the content of the audio montage folder and to manage the files in it, as well as further files that are associated with the audio montage.

For each of your audio montages, WaveLab Pro automatically creates a designated folder. You can choose to save the files associated with the audio montage in this location. However, you can also insert files into the audio montage from elsewhere and keep them in their original location, so that they are not included in the audio montage folder. On the other hand, the audio montage folder can also contain files that are not referenced by the audio montage file itself, such as notes or alternative versions of audio titles that you manually saved in this folder, or files that you imported into the audio montage at one point but that you removed from it again later on.

Typical use cases for the Consolidate option:

• You intend to work on your audio montage on another computer or to share it with other users, so that they can continue working on it.

  The Consolidate option allows you to create copies of all referenced files that are located outside the audio montage folder and to include them in the folder of the active audio montage. This ensures that no assets are missing when the project is transferred to another machine or user.

• Some files that you imported into the audio montage but removed from it again later on are still included in the audio montage folder and take up unnecessary memory space there.

  The Consolidate option allows you to identify and delete files that are currently not referenced by the active audio montage.