I’m not quite sure if you mean you replace old clips with new different length clips, but the only functions I know of are the Clips tab: Clips > Functions > Align Selected Clips of focused track. If you select all the clips (ctrl-a), then use “place clips one after the other” 0s or 1s or 2s (or whatever), you’ll get consistent gap between all clips.
If you mean you resize the end of one clip (or insert a clip of different length) and want all clips on the right to move to fit, engage the “auto shift clips on the right” button.
If neither of those do what you want, maybe you could take a screenshot?
1.Where -exactly- is the Clips > Functions > Align Selected Clips of focused track?
2.Where -exactly- is the “auto shift clips on the right” button" ?
I’m sure it’s =somewhere= in the PDF but frankly? If I can’t find it in 60 seconds, I swear and go elsewhere. I reached an age where I simply have zero patience with non-standard UIs. I used to LOVE WL. Now I dread firing it up.
I would rather use a Montage because my workflow is this:
I do theatre pieces. Basically 12+ songs. The size of each song changes as the show develops.
I use the montage to apply processing to each raw piece… basically to ‘pre-master’ it so listeners can hear each piece at a similar volume and which is competitive with other stuff on their iPod. It’s great to have all the plugs custom set up for each clip.
But what makes it a PITA is that every time a clip gets re-generated (in Cubase) and the length changes, I have to delete it in WL, then re-insert it in the right place in the montage and THEN re-apply the custom plug-in processing.
But if the clip could automatically ‘re-size’ itself to the WAV file’s total length (thus pushing the subsequent clips to the right) I wouldn’t have to futz with all that.
I didn’t realize there were clip plugins involved. That does complicate things.
I went on and on about this in another thread:
I need the clips to stay exactly the same, but you need the clips to expand with the soundfile. I’ve asked for an option to have it either way. As it is, clips shrink with shorter files, but don’t expand for longer files, which makes no sense at all to me. You need clips to expand and everything to the right to shift to fit it.
If you’re generally dealing with longer new files, I think the only thing you can do in 7 is temporarily save the original clip plugin chain, and then load it in the new clip. I would make a new temporary track (track 2), put the new clip on track 2, select it and ctrl-c (copy), then select the old clip on track 1, and ctrl-v (paste) with the paste option that moves everything to the right (don’t remember exactly what paste option that was, “replace with shift” or something like that).
Thanks. Yes, you understand perfectly. I take it that this behaviour is not any improved in WL8?
I -really- need this. I am using your workaround… it works, but it’s a PITA. If it were once in a blue moon, I’d be OK, but I go through that little dance EVERY DAY while composing… the time when I -least- feel like futzing with this sort of thing.