Render Tracks; Dragging Regions Into Tracks - Mackie HDR24 Editing Manual

Tighten up the edits if you wish, by cutting out some of the "dead air" and making
the pauses between numbers more natural. In short order, you'll have this sounding
at least as good as the automated telephone directory assistance.
So now you have the perfectly edited take and you want to make sure it stays that
way if you copy it into other places in your song. Right now it's a bunch of pieces
that can come unglued if you're not careful about handling them. Here's a look at
two more HDR24/96 functions which are not really editing tools, but you'll want to
use to solidify your editing work. These are Rendering and dragging entries from the
Regions List into tracks.

Render Tracks

Rendering is the equivalent of playing the audio as edited and recording a new track
which is all in one piece. Once the "Backwards" track is rendered, you can place it
anywhere (even in another project) with all the edits intact. A rendered track
inherits the name of the track at the time of rendering, so if you haven't renamed
your tracks yet, this is a good time to do so.
Rendering can be performed on the entire project including all the tracks from start
to end, or on individually selected tracks over a specific time range. Let's render our
two cut up tracks.
First, block out the area to be rendered. Use the I-Beam tool in the time bar (above
the tracks) to select an area to include both tracks. All the tracks will be selected,
so deselect all but the two you wish to render. Select Render Tracks from the Edit
menu. Click OK.

Dragging Regions Into Tracks

Okay, now you're an editor. Go create some music.
To bring those rendered tracks into your project, all you
need to do is click on their names in the Regions List and
drag them into the track area. Try it. Drag them to two
empty tracks in your project. You'll see that they have no
breaks in them, and they sound exactly like the cut and
spliced versions.
When the
Rendering
operation is
complete, open
the Regions List.
You'll find your
rendered tracks
there.
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