Butting clips against each other

[HOOK]

Say I have all these clips on one track and I want to automatically butt one up against the other....not manually drag them.  Is there a command or option for this?   Thanks.

[tparker24]

You could try setting a Landmark to Clips in Preferences|Snap to Grid.  Then dragging clips should snap to start/end of the nearby clip.  (Haven't tried it myself).

[HOOK]

Nah....that doesn't do it.

[dougalex]

Trying to brainstorm and, while not the elegant feature you are looking for, I thought of this possibility:

1] Bounce all clips to one clip
2] Make manual splits at beginning and end of the wanted sections
3] Select all the unwanted blank clips in between the wanted sections
4] Delete the blank clips using Ripple edit 

[David Baay]

20 hours ago, HOOK said:

Nah....that doesn't do it.

Dragging with Clip Landmarks enabled (and musical resolution disabled) will do the trick if configured properly and is pretty much the only way to achieve this. I applaud Dougalex's creativity (my own brainstorming didn't hit on that), but it would take longer to make the splits and select the flatline clips for deletion than to just drag the clips together with Snap to Landmarks.

[Base 57]

Also, not automagical, but if you set a keyboard shortcut to "Go to Thru" you can select the first clip then use that shortcut to navigate to the clip boundary. Then just cut and paste the next clip.

Repeat steps as needed.

As always, YMMV

[HOOK]

These are a lot of do this, then try that.  And while I appreciate it, I'm really asking if there was a way to snap all of those end to end....lasso and snap without a bunch of dragging.

Obviously not.

It's fine.  I've never needed that option...just had a lot of this to do with this current project.  I'll man up and gitter done the old fashioned way.  At least it's not tape.

[mettelus]

Try the Remove Silence tool. I took all of the samples from an electronic kit by recording them, but used Audition, which allowed them to also be split as clips and saved as discrete files (macros rule). Sonar can remove the silence at least with their embedded tool and will butt them all together for you.

[HOOK]

I used remove silence to make those clips before I posted.  I know of no way to use it to snap all those clips together.

[mettelus]

Boy, its been a while since I used it in SONAR, but selecting "Split Clips" is supposed to delete the silent sections. I thought that deletion also butted them together, but my memory might be flaky.

If that actually doesn't work, a dedicated wav editor may be a better choice (just not sure of a good free one with this functionality). This is also default edit behavior in video editors (basically ripple edit based on removing silence from the audio track), which may be another option.