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The Audio Montage
Adding clips to an existing group
If you already have a group, and want to add one or sev-
eral clips to that group, this is done in the following way:
1. Select the clips you want to add.
2. In the Groups view, select “Group selected Clips”
from the Grouping menu, or click the corresponding icon.
3. In the dialog that appears, select the group to which
you want to add the clips.
4. Click OK.
The clips are added to the group.
• If you want to create a new empty group, to which you
can add clips one at a time, start by selecting “Add empty
Group” from the Groups view : Grouping menu.
This creates an empty group in the list, to which you can later add clips.
• It is possible to create nested groups, by adding a
group to another group.
This can be useful, since it allows you to deactivate the grouping for
some subgroups only, as described below. For clips in nested groups, all
group names are displayed before the clip name (separated by “:”)
• A clip cannot be part of more than one group.
If you add a clip to a group, it is automatically removed from any other
group it is part of.
Group options
There are a couple of options in the Groups view that af-
fect how groups are handled:
• You can temporarily “turn off” a group by deactivating
the checkbox to the left of a group in the list.
When the group is deactivated this way, you can move individual clips in
the group, as if they were not grouped.
• If the option “A mouse click selects a group” is activated
on the Groups view : Options menu, selecting a clip in the
Track View automatically selects all clips in the same
group.
If the option is deactivated, selecting a whole group requires that you
click on the group name in the Groups view list. This is useful if you want
to be able to modify the relative positions of clips in the group, without
having to remove them from the group.
You can also turn on or off “A mouse click selects a group” by clicking
this icon.
Coloring groups
You can select a specific color for a group to make it easy
to discern it in the Track View:
1. Select the group by clicking on its name in the Groups
view list.
2. Pull down the Groups View : Grouping menu and se-
lect the desired color from the “Color selected group”
submenu.
For more information about Audio Montage colors, see “Styling Wave-
Lab Studio – Audio Montage windows” on page 251.
Removing groups
1. Select the group by clicking on its name in the Groups
view list.
2. Pull down the Grouping menu and select “Remove se-
lected group”.
The group is removed (the clips are not affected).
A nested group in the Groups view.
A clip belonging to the nested group.
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Any individual color selections for the clips will over-
ride the group color.