User Manual

Chapter 40: Arranging Clips 911
4 In the Strip Silence window, adjust the settings
for
Strip Threshold and Minimum Strip Dura-
tion (
Min Strip) until the Strip Silence rectangles
appear in the selection.
5 Click the Extract button.
All audio above the designated threshold is deleted
and the “silent” portions of the track are left.
To separate clips using Strip Silence:
1 Make an Edit or Timeline selection.
2 Choose Edit > Strip Silence.
3 To set the naming scheme for clips created with
Strip Silence, click
Rename to open the Re-
name Selected Clips dialog (see “Auto-Naming
for Strip Silence” on page 909).
4 In the Strip Silence window, adjust the settings
for
Strip Threshold and Minimum Strip Dura-
tion (
Min Strip) until the Strip Silence rectangles
appear in the selection.
5 Click the Separate button.
New clips are created based on the boundaries de-
tected by Strip Silence.
The Strip Silence Window
The Strip Silence window contains the following
controls that let you set the parameters by which si-
lence is defined when using Strip Silence.
Adjusting these controls causes rectangles to tem-
porarily appear in the selection, indicating areas of
silence that will be affected by the Strip, Extract, or
Separate commands.
Strip Threshold Sets the amplitude threshold
(from –96 dB to 0 dB) for Strip Silence. Audio
falling below this threshold is considered silence
and removed. Audio above the threshold is re-
tained and defined as new clips.
Minimum Strip Duration Sets the minimum dura-
tion (from 0 to 4,000 ms) that the material above
the threshold must last to be considered silence.
Use this control to avoid countless small clips that
may occur within a selection.
Clip Start Pad Specifies a time value to be added
to the beginning of each new clip created with
Strip Silence. This is useful for preserving musical
material that falls below the threshold, such as the
breath before a vocal phrase, or the finger slide be-
fore a guitar chord.
Clip End Pad Specifies a time value to be ap-
pended to the end of each new clip created with
Strip Silence, thereby preserving the nuances in
the decay of the material.
Strip Clears the detected silence, but leaves the
clips containing audio on the track.
Extract Clears the audio and leaves the silent por-
tions of the track (in other words, an “inverse” strip
silence feature that is ideal for generating room
tone or ambience to use elsewhere).
Strip Silence window
Strip Silence rectangles