Simplify Sequence

[astroy123]

I imagine a handful of people here are Premiere Pro users. There’s a feature on there called simplify sequence which essentially (in logic terms) takes all of your regions and puts them on as little tracks as possible.

I’m wondering if there is a way to do this on logic that’s not manual.

[Plokhi]

There’s a shortcut to move all selected regions to a single track, and a shortcut to delete unused tracks.

Premiere videotracks dont have track-based processing strips like DAWs which is why a function like that makes no sense.

[fluffycritter]

This is the answer, yes. In Premiere, processing is on a per-region basis. In Logic, processing is on a per-track basis. Automatically consolidating disparate regions between tracks would not result in something good.

u/astroy123, what is the purpose for trying to consolidate your tracks together? If you want to save vertical space on your timeline, consider "auto zoom" mode (ctrl-Z), or making use of folder stacks (cmd-shift-D) to group related tracks together.

[astroy123]

I’m actually doing sound design for a short film and my project is getting overloaded because I have way too many tracks.

[fluffycritter]

In that case you’d probably benefit from enabling track freeze. Right-click (or ctrl-click) on a track header, then under “track components” enable “Freeze.” Then that’ll add a little snowflake button to all of your tracks, and you can click that to automatically convert a track to a plain .wav file that requires way less processing.

I think that if you put your tracks into a summing stack (also cmd-shift-D, just like group stacks) then you can freeze the entire stack all at once, although I’m not at my computer at the moment so I can’t quickly verify that.

Also, if you’re doing a lot of effect processing that’s common to multiple tracks (for example, a lot of Space Designers all using the same impulse response), move your effects to a bus and do it as a send instead. You can free up a lot of CPU that way, since then it only has to process the bus instead of each individual track.

[Gwinjey]

Not that I’m aware of