Creating a montage

hello all-
i've been recording a podcast in garageband, and now that our season is over, i'm trying to create a 4-minute (or so) montage of very short clips from 20 podcasts, with music behind them.
basically, i've been grabbing the clips from the orginal podcast files (which are saved as garageband songs), copying them into a separate track, joining all the clips, copy and pasting the joined region into the montage file, deconstructing the joined region in the montage file, and arranging the clips.
this is a pretty unwieldy process and i'm hoping someone here (who knows way more about garageband than i do) can suggest a better process.
i guess i'm mostly hampered by the fact that you can only have one file open at a time. it would be much easier to just copy and paste between files. i understand there's nothing i can do about that.
thank you in advance for any suggestions.

orkpie wrote:
basically, i've been grabbing the clips from the orginal podcast files (which are saved as garageband songs), copying them into a separate track, joining all the clips, copy and pasting the joined region into the montage file, deconstructing the joined region in the montage file, and arranging the clips.
i'm not sure i quite follow your workflow, but i can tell you how i'd do it:
i'd open each podcast from which i wanted a clip/clips and export it/them, uncompressed:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#exportsections
This FAQ entry also offers a Minute GarageBand video tutorial
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)
then i'd drag and drop them into a new project and arrange them as needed

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