Locking Clips; Grouping Clips; Gain Window; Clip And Selection Editing - Merging Pyramix 4.3 User Manual

Locking Clips

Clips can be protected from being displaced during editing by selecting Clips > Lock. A locked clip can-
not be moved in time or to another track until it is unlocked. Clips > Unlock. If you simply wish to pre-
vent loss of sync select Clips > Lock Horizontal Drag.

Grouping Clips

To Group multiple clips, whether they are on the same or different Tracks, select the clips you wish to
Group together. Now choose Clips > Group. When any clip in a Group is selected, copied, deleted or
moved, all clips in its Group will be similarly selected, copied, deleted or moved.
To ungroup previously Grouped clips to treat them separately, select the Group and choose Clips >
Ungroup.
Groups can be nested. I.e. one group may be inside another group. For example a stereo or multi-
channel clip is simply a group of mono clips. Stereo or Multi-channel clips may be ungrouped into indi-
vidual mono ones in the same way as any other group.

Gain WIndow

Gain Window

Clip and Selection Editing

Master Clips appear in the Timeline as blocks which can be edited on a track (or tracks, depending on
how many tracks the Master Clip contains) The clip can be trimmed, split, crossfaded, and have many
other operations performed on it without ever affecting the underlying media file. Each instance of a clip
references the entire media file, and can always be "opened up" by using the Trim Handles to reveal
more of the clip until the complete underlying Media File is visible. Clips can be dragged in the Timeline
while the transport is playing.
The Gain window allows the gain to be set for the current selection. The gain value can be
typed into the box at the top of the strip or set by clicking and dragging the fader
Mute when checked, mutes the selection but retains the gain value
Sel. box (Selection). When checked, the gain change will be applied to the whole
selection (default is checked)
Rel. box (Relative) When checked and a series of clips are grouped, the gain
change is relative to pre-existing levels
When neither box is checked any gain change is only applied to the clip which was
last right clicked (even if others are selected)
OK button makes any changes selected in the Gain window and closes it
Cancel button cancels any changes selected in the Gain window and closes it
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