DigiDesign Pro Tools 8.0 Reference Manual page 752

Using Strip Silence
To strip silence from an audio selection:
Select one or more audio regions.
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Choose Edit > Strip Silence.
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Press Control+U (Windows) or Com-
mand+U (Mac) to open the Strip Silence
window.
To set the naming scheme for regions created
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with Strip Silence, click Rename to open the Re-
name Selected Regions dialog. For details, see
"Auto-Naming for Strip Silence" on page 733.
In the Strip Silence window, adjust the set-
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tings for Strip Threshold and Minimum Strip Du-
ration (Min Strip) until Strip Silence rectangles
appear in the selection.
Figure 43. Strip Silence rectangles
For finer resolution on these controls, press
Control (Windows) or Command (Mac) while
adjusting them.
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To retain material before and after the new re-
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gions, adjust the settings for Region Start Pad
and Region End Pad.
Attack to be padded Decay to be padded
Strip Silence, padding region start and end points
Once the Strip Silence rectangles encompass
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the audio that you want to keep, press the Strip
button.
The material defined as silence is removed from
the selection and new regions are created, which
also appear in the Region List.
Strip Silence is nondestructive and does not re-
move audio data from parent audio files. In ad-
dition to the Undo command, you can use the
Heal Separation command to restore stripped
material.
Strip Silence works with stereo and multi-
channel tracks, and keeps their audio re-
gions phase-coherent.