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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