How do I flatten Audio Layers in Davinci?
Got a pretty specific question regarding keyboard shortcuts. So one of my new favorites is called "Flatten unused clips" and what it does is organizes all the video into as few tracks as possible, which keeps my timeline super clean. My question is how can I do the same thing for audio? I found one called "Flatten Audio Track Layers" but it doesn't seem to do anything. Are my audio track settings wrong? Or did I not find the right shortcut?
I made a short video to show what I'm talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7O8NsZ2Dsc
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Are they the same audio type? For example, not sure that you could flatten a mono track with a stereo track.
hold alt when you click on one and then (let go of alt) drag it to the other track
but yeah mixing stereo and mono will cause issues
I'm pretty sure everything is stereo here, but just to check i made a smaller project with just stereo tracks and again I had no luck flattening
All this does is make a duplicate of my clip, which isn't really what I'm trying to do.
I did find one situation where the "flatten audio track layers" shortcut actually worked. If you enable "layered audio editing" in the timeline menu, it allows you to move some audio on top of another piece of audio without overwriting it. All it does is add a new layer to the audio track. When I hit the shortcut here, it removes these extra layers and brings it back to just one. This leads me to believe that I just didn't understand the shortcut. Unfortunately I'm no closer to actually flattening the audio.
Hold alt, click it, let go of alt, then drag
Oooh, thats pretty cool. I can move JUST the audio now.
I think with this and the "delete empty tracks" shortcut, I can get most of the way there. Thanks for the help.