[Ardour-Users] Cleaning up unused regions

[Thomas Vecchione]

I am not even following the second half of what you are trying to
accomplish with this, but copying and pasting regions also will not
change the size of audio on the disk, nor does it create new audio on
the disk, so this still wouldn't work for what the OP wants.

   Seablade

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:04 PM, fred <f.rech at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Le 05/10/2011 20:00, Brett McCoy a écrit :
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM, fred<f.rech at yahoo.fr>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> probably the faster "handmade" way will be :
>>> - set the edit point on mouse
>>> - grow the height and wide of the track to see the sound / silence
>>> difference (Ctrl+mouse roll and Cap+mouse roll)
>>> - put the mouse pointer after 1st sound ending
>>> - press s to split
>>> - put the mouse pointer before 2nd sound start
>>> - press s to split
>>> -click on the silence region
>>> -press del
>>>
>>
>> That doesn't delete the underlying audio, that's what the OP wanted to
>> have happen. It only cleans up the playlist.
>>
>
> Oups !
> Forget the end of the tip, was too much inside it excuse me ;-)
>
> So, it goes like this (like the rest it is HANDMADE, but can't find anything
> else ATM,
> and 1 more time any other idea is really welcome, Folks) :
>
> -when have finished the track edit, set edit point on playhead
> -create a new similar track
> -set playhead at the very beginning of 1st sound (you can use right clic
> "properties" on
> it to set at the right time)
> -create a marker at the very beginning (Alt+L and create a new marker), note
> its shortcut
> -select all regions in the track with clicked mouse movement
> -set playhead at beginning with the new marker shortcut
> -Ctrl+C
> -Ctrl+V
> -delete the original track
> -cleanup unused sources
> -close and start Ardour
> -flush wastebasket
> -close and start Ardour
> -rec time is automagically up
>
> Sorry to forget the most important side, and thanks to "the 2 Brett" to
> remind it !!!
>
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