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User Guide > Animation > Animation > Nonlinear Animation > Manipulate clips > 

Merge clips

You can merge two or more clips into a single clip. The clips to be merged can be positioned sequentially in a track or can be located on different tracks.

The benefits of merging clips are as follows:

• There are fewer clips to manage
• If you merge a pair of blended clips, the resulting source clip has keys for the blended animation. You can activate the merged clip and edit its animation in the Graph Editor.
• You can merge a single clip into a new clip. This is useful for creating an absolute clip from a relative clip, or for splitting a cycled clip. See Split clips.
  NoteIf you don’t want to merge clips, you can still manage multiple clips at a time by grouping them. See Create groups.

To merge clips

1. In the Trax Editor, select the clips that you want to merge.

   You can select multiple clips from the same or different tracks.

2. Select Edit > Merge > .

   The Merge Clip Options window appears. See Merge.

3. Set the options and click the Merge Clip button.

   The selected clips merge into a single clip.

   NoteWhen clips merge, any gaps or overlapping between the animation clips are interpolated or blended.