Pitch Automation?

[Turbobob]

I am working with my vocalist and have been successfully tuning and timing our vocals to our satisfaction....<not the stones song> but our current track and have been spending a lot of time making sure things sound proper for our type of sound. I am puzzled at how to finalize and perhaps a pron order of work flow. I usually record the desired tracks and then time them with in the beds and then tune them. Now I have been trying to merge certain take(chorus..etc) to move around ,but I am wondering if pitch automation is rewritten into the new file. I dont think it is. So from here do I freeze to free up cpu or will merge do the trick. I would like to merge into stem tracks for further processing later....any pro tips would be great for work flow...The manual says everything about correction but what after that...
Thanks

[Mr_Clifford]

Performing 'merge soundbites' on a soundbite with pitch automation will 'freeze' the automation into the new audio file - which is why all your automation seems to disappear, it's been rendered into the audio.

I usually do my tuning then duplicate the take and 'merge soundbites' in the new take. Then I can always go back to the original if I need to do more tweaking down the track. However, DP does use the same pre-rendering on pitch automation as on the plug-ins, so it should be pretty efficient with CPU anyway.

[Turbobob]

Thanks so much Mr Clifford thats what I wanted to hear