CONSOLIDATING A TRACK CAUSES CLICKS

[MOONMAN]

when i select an entire track with multible edits and than consolidate it i get clicks embeded in the audio. the clicks arent associated with any edits.

[KingTor]

I've noticed that before. I suspect that consolidate doesn't incorporate the "Auto Region Fade In/Out Length" setting in the Preferences (Operation tab), and have always managed to fix the clicks by manually making short crossfades on each edit that clicks. It's a major drag, but it's worked for me.

[Kurtstudio]

I always crossfade all my edits before I consolidate. Weather you do it as a whore region or seperate edits, it is important to clean up your edits before you consolidate. If you are in a hurry, cross fade at 2 Ms and you'll get ride of any pops and probably not effect the attact of any audio edit., but the down side is lose of an attack. You could do this, Dulpicate entire track, then cross fare the the duplicate then consolidate the copy, if there are no pops, delete the original file. That's what i do if i am in a hurry!! And Who isn't

[MOONMAN]

thanks for the quick replys. the clicks arent associated with edits.

[Loudnoize Ent.]

Weather you do it as a whore...

You can see Kurt needs to get out a little more often That is funny!

Okay back to the original post. I've gotten the same thing happen on my end. Nothing to do with edits as well. Although I noticed it when I used Auto-Tune (AudioSuite), this gave me clicks as well.

[Imagine]

I consolidated a guitar track with several edits, and the same thing happened.

[blairl]

thanks for the quick replys. the clicks arent associated with edits.

I have seen reports of this happening on systems with "cheap" RAM. Try removing any RAM that did not come with the computer and see if it still happens.

[sleadley]

I have also seen this if consolidating to a BAD drive. The drives to avoid are the La Cie Porche drives. This was like in the Bad old days of thermal calibration that caused clicks in the audio files.
Regards
Simon L.

[Sean Halley]

Everytime I've seen this, it turned out to be a bad stick of RAM. Anything that buffers in RAM can be affected - sometimes an overview won't compute correctly, for instance...


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[Tweakhead]

This has been asked and answered many times on this forum. A simple search will usually produce the answers, but here it is again.

You probably have autofade regions turned on in your Pro Tools preferences. This means that your TDM hardware is doing the crossfading on the fly. If you bounce to disk it will be fine as it is rendered thru your TDM hardware. If you consolidate all your regions together it will reveal all your 'bad' edits. ie Edit that do not occur at zero crossings, as they will be butt-joined together and therefore no longer subject to hardware crossfades.

I always have my autofade set to zero and x-fade manually. This way people who open my TDM sessions on LE systems get a usable session - without clicks.

BTW, your Caps Lock key also seems to be broken.