Hi Thomas
Given the value you get from shift-f7 and shift-f8, are you aware of
shift-f5 and shift-f6? They play up to the start of the selection and
from the start of the selection respectively. I did not check before
writing this, but assume they work on the Mac.
Regarding undo history, there would be times where it could be useful
and I am fairly certain that it doesn't happen at present.
Andrew
On 16/12/2016 9:45 PM, Thomas Byskov Dalgaard wrote:
Hello all!
Here some observations from me Hope it is ok that I add them to this topic.
I have now ben playing with Audacity when editing a small project using
Audacity version 2.1 screenreader edition for the Mac.
I am not finished with the project yet, but I think I might do more of my work
in Audacity in 2017 and later on.
What I have noticed is that the shift F7 and shift F8 commands are helping me
very very much when I tried to make my first attempts of edits. I am now used
to the way extending selections works. It was actually easier getting used to
than I thought while reading a discussion about it on the list.
What I really appreciate about Audacity is the way it handles multiple tracks.
Select the tracks, and you can easily make small edits and the tracks are still
synced.
Make your edits, save your projects, and when time permits reopen the project.
I was happy to find out that Audacity remembered my cursor position so I didn't
have to look for it as well as which tracks I had selected before I saved the
project.
I haven't needed to play with this yet, but I will look more into how I can get
useful information out of the edit boxes showing the time for the start or end
of the time range, thanks so much for your E-mails regarding the edit boxes
when setting the left and right positions, Andrew.
I only have one question/suggestion for a future versions of Audacity, and this
is actually not accessibility specific:
Is there a way for me to save the undo history with my project?
I see that Audacity stores all kinds of info about cursor positions, track gain
etc. so this would be great just as an option for a future release.
I can see myself use Audacity for many future projects, especially when the new
commands for adding labels are added to an official version. In fact that might
actually speed some of my work up by saving huge amounts of time. What I hope
to see is that the accessibility of 2.1.1 screenreader transfers to the next
major release of Audacity.
I hoped I could adjust the track gain with shift + G and when exporting getting
the changed gain to the exported file, that was not the case. Is there a way to
do this, or do I have to go via the effects menu and from there select the
gain-option?
Best regards Thomas
Den 16. dec. 2016 kl. 08.31 skrev Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
Here is some further information after today's further checking. Apologies for
the ramblings - should have finished investigations before posting yesterday.
Thanks David. I think I knew once about the lack of reporting, but a while
since I have used Audacity on the Mac.
I made a breakthrough today. Having pressed one of the brackets, pressing Home
fixes the issue I noted yesterday of not knowing where the cursor had landed.
The following example assumes you are as fussy as me and have set to hours,
minutes, seconds and milliseconds, but adjust according to your setup.
Let's assume you want to set the cursor at 3 minutes, seven seconds and 351
milliseconds.
1. Press left bracket ([)
2. Press Home (on the Macbook Air Function-shift-Command-left does the job)
3. Write 000307351 and press Enter
You will be placed back on the audio track. As David said, VoiceOver commands
can be used to read the value before you press Enter. That becomes important
if you want to make very small adjustments, as you will need to know current
settings before making an adjustment.
Having selected some audio, there is another way of adjusting beginning and end
points. I don't use it much because it is not as precise, but there are times
where it is effective. The following are the Mac commands. For Windows
substitute Control for Command:
Shift-left: Extend left edge of selection
Shift-right: Extend right edge of selection
Shift-Command-right: Contract left edge of selection
Shift-Command-left: Contract right edge of selection
It sort of makes mnemonic sense. Note that the amount by which you extend or
contract will depend on zoom level. That is why I prefer to use the numbers,
but each to his/her own.
Andrew
On 16/12/2016 5:41 AM, Agnieszka Svenja Ottawa wrote:
Hi there,
Thanks alot for your answers, I’ll try it out.
greets
Svenja
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