# Clips examples

From Audacity Development Manual
An example of creating clips, and how they can be expanded.

The images on this page have RMS display turned on, the light color in the center of the waveform.

- The RMS display is now off by default .
- You can enable it with View > Show RMS in Waveform. See RMS display for more details.

:A selection in a clip

  After Edit > Audio Clips > Split (note: the clips have been renamed for clarity)

  Clip "C2" can be dragged into a new audio track and then split into three clips (note: the clips have been renamed for clarity)

Note the double-headed arrow cursor to the right of clip "C2c" indicating that it can be expanded

  After expanding clip "C2c"

When a new clip is created from an existing clip, the new clip contains all the audio contained in the clip it was created from

  Clip "C2b" can be dragged into a new audio track

  Clip "C2b" (now in the third audio track) can be expanded both left and right.

Note that clip "C2b" contains not only the visible audio in clip "C2", but all the audio in the original clip.