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Chapter 41: Clip Loops and Groups 919
To copy and paste automation from the source clip
to loop iterations:
1 Select the source clip.
2 Choose Edit > Copy Special and one of the Copy
Special
commands (All Automation, Pan Auto-
mation
, or Plug-In Automation), depending on
what automation you want to copy.
3 Select the entire looped clip.
4 Choose Edit > Paste Special > Repeat to Fill
Selection
.
Clip Groups
A clip group is a collection of any combination of
audio and MIDI clips that looks and acts like a sin-
gle clip. Clip groups are essentially containers
holding one or more clips. Clip groups can be cre-
ated on single or multiple adjacent audio, MIDI,
and Instrument tracks. Clip groups let you “nest”
multiple clips into “macro” clips for groove and
tempo manipulation, editing, and arranging.
Clip groups can be placed on tracks alongside stan-
dard clips, and edited using many of the same ed-
iting techniques as regular clips. Certain edits to a
clip group will apply to all clips contained by the
clip group, such as
Cut or Delete. Other edits only
apply to the boundaries of the clip group and do not
affect the underlining clips, such as
Trim.
Each clip group is saved with the session as a Clip
Group file (.rgrp). Clip group files can be exported
from and imported into different Pro Tools ses-
sions.
Clip groups are especially useful for:
• Grouping tick-based audio clips that have been
separated into many small clips, such as with in-
dividual hits of a drum pattern. Many such small
clips can easily be created with Beat Detective
or the
Separate Clip At Transients command, or
imported as REX or ACID files.
• Grouping parts and sections of your session to
facilitate composition and arranging. For exam-
ple, grouping the clips of a brass section during
the chorus to copy it to the next chorus.
Selected Pan automation for Special Copy
Pan automation Special Paste to Fill Selection
Clip groups are completely independent of
and unique from Mix and Edit Groups.
Editing Elastic Properties is disallowed for
clip groups.
Clip groups are not supported on audio
tracks set to Playlists view. Changing an
audio track to Playlist View automatically
ungroups any clip groups on the track.