Super Clips

A super clip is a clip that represents the rendered state of another audio montage (mono or stereo). The source montage that the super clip is based on is a separate, independent audio montage. You can create a super clip from any audio montage, and you can insert any number of super clips into an audio montage.

Important

In this manual, as soon as a super clip is included in an audio montage, this audio montage is referred to as the parent montage, and the source montage that the super clip is based on is referred to as a sub-montage. A sub-montage can itself contain super clips.

Super clips help you to create and manage even the most complex audio montages. Instead of having to handle a single complex montage each time you want to apply a change to one of its components, you can assemble a parent montage from smaller, less complex audio montages. This saves time and resources, with regard to the performance of your system.

A super clip in a parent montage behaves like any other clip. If you perform any editing on the sub-montage that the super clip is based on, you need to render the sub-montage for the changes to be reflected in the audio file of the super clip as part of a parent montage. Once you have done that, you can easily update all super clips in a parent montage with one single click.

Example

You are working on an album that is composed of 15 songs. Each song needs to undergo complex editing processes. Instead of performing all editing in one single audio montage, you create 15 super clips, each of them a separate audio montage containing the audio material of one song. You create another audio montage and insert the 15 super clips into it, and you arrange them as you like. You can now edit the sub-montages that the super clips refer to individually. After rendering the edited sub-montages, you can update the super clips in the parent montage with a single click.