Editing your arrangement

We already looked at how we can trim, split, fade, move, duplicate, and consolidate clips in the Arrangement View in Chapter 3, Editing Audio and Warping. Most of these also apply to MIDI clips.

In this section, we will explore the Cut/Copy, Paste, and Duplicate Time commands and Insert Silence!

Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate Time commands

Let’s start with the Cut, Copy, Paste, and Duplicate Time commands:

1. The first thing that needs to be done is to make a selection in the timeline. It can be a bunch of clips, or just one, as we will be working with the chunk of time that the clip(s) occupy (not just the one clip) and affect the overall arrangement!
2. Once the clip(s) are selected, as in my example (Figure 10.10), we can visit the Edit menu (Figure 10.11).

Figure 10.10 – Clip/Time is selected to perform the Time command

Figure 10.11 – The Edit menu

3. In...