[studiorecorder] the scrubbing is fantastic

  • From: "Don Barrett" <donter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <studiorecorder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:58:01 -0400

Hello all,

I found that most of my editing on my 30-minute file involved huge amounts 
of scrubbing in order to remove a plethora of clicks, coughs, ums, etc.  The 
accuracy I experienced when removing unwanted pieces of the file was just 
amazing to me.  what a superb feature.

I was thinking that one feature which might be of assistance would be an 
automatic snap to the low or no volume point between two points in order to 
facilitate quicker scrubbing.

Consider this:  suppose I say the phrase "the quick brown fox jumped over 
the lazy dogs," and someone nearby made a noise during brown fox.  My 
objective is to eliminate that phrase with its offending noise.
What I have to do is stop play when I hear the q of quick and begin 
scrubbing until I get to the low or no volume point between quick and brown. 
It is there that I put my beginning selection marker.
Next, I do the same with the f of fox; I stop when I hear the f of fox, and 
scrub to the right again until I reach the small blank between fox and 
jumped, and put the right selection marker there; then I hit delete and it 
works really well.
The only problem is that scrubbing takes time which is ok.  But, what if I 
could mark the q of quick and the b of brown, and then hit a keystroke which 
would find the no or low volume point between those two marks and 
automatically put the first selection mark there.
Then, I could mark the f of fox and the j of jumped, and hitting the 
keystroke again, I would snap to the lowest or no volume point between fox 
and jumped and the right selection mark would be placed there.  I could then 
simply hit delete and the edit would be completed in a much faster and more 
efficient manner.
I would imagine that many might believe that looking for the no or low 
volume point between two words might not give you the accuracy you wanted, 
but that's all I did when scrubbing my errors out, and it seemed to work 
just fine.
I think automating the same process could be very very useful, as at least 
for me, it was the scrubbing which took the most time.

Don


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