[audacity4blind] Re: Does Audacity Have a Pause Function?
- From: David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:58:41 +0100 (BST)
Hi Gene,
concerning any advantage of pressing pause before pressing left bracket or
right bracket during playback.
One advantage is that you can more easily hear the point in the audio where you
pressed the key. Then, if you hear that you're a little out, you can press p to
resume, press left arrow a few times to jump back a little, and the have
another go to pause in the right place.
David.
On Tuesday, 22 April 2014, 4:30, Gene <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a way to move the cursor by tiny increments and hear where it is
after each movement? The same question for the right marker as well. I'm
not aware of any way to do this. If list members can provide such a way,
you will be able to edit as you want.
If you want to produce these kinds of very smooth edits and if the file is
going to be an mp3 file, you may want to use Mp3 Direct Cut to record and
edit files. Mp3 Direct Cut allows you to hear exactly where the left and
right markers are, move them by tiny increments, and hear exactly where
they are after you move them. You can move them and check where they are
as many times as you want.
But Mp3 Direct Cut is not a multitrack editor and it only records, plays,
and edits Mp3 files.
Also, I'm skeptical about whether using pause in Audacity makes editing
easier. It may make it more difficult. I did some experimenting editing
in Audacity and I pressed the left bracket and right bracket while the
file was playing. there is a slight lag of a part of a second, perhaps
just a small fraction between the time you press the left and right
bracket keys and the time the cursor and the right marker is set. So to
get an edit to be at the places you want to remove, you have to press
these keys a fraction of a second before the place where you want them to
be. I haven't used pause in editing but I suspect pause has the same
delay. In addition, it's an extra key stroke. I'm not expert in audacity
and those who know more may present advantages in using pause I don't know
about. but with my present knowledge, I don't see any.
Gene
----- Original Message -----
> Thank you for answering. I'm not sure whether it's just me, but I never
> seem to be able to get the cursor to just the right smidgen to make it a
> smooth-flowing recording. I used to do it with two cassette decks all the
> time. I don't know if I'm just not coordinated enough for digital audio
> or
> what my problem is. Maybe just more practice--I don't know.
>
> Linda Adams
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dang Manh Cuong
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 7:38 PM
> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Does Audacity Have a Pause Function?
>
> Hi Linda Don't have time to read other member's answer, but I'll give you
> a
> resource about find 0 crossing. To access this feature, press z after
> making
> selection. Note that you must exit the pause function before pressing, and
> I
> recommend you always do this after making your slelection. Read more at
> http://vip.chowo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/jaws/Audacity-2.0.5-Guide.html
> HTH
> HTH
> Cuong
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 11:49 PM
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Does Audacity Have a Pause Function?
>
>
>> Hi, Justin. When using the Pause and Left and Right bracket to edit
>> things out, do you still get noisy clicks when you used Pause?
>>
>> Robert said that Shift A and Z need to be used to avoid the clicks at
>> borders. Would you are someone please give me a sequence of exactly
>> when
>> to press each key from the point that I pause at the silence beginning
>> to
>> saving my edited selection that no longer contains the silence? That
>> would be so amazingly helpful. The problem with the manual broken up
>> into
>> the links is that for each section, you only get to know one aspect of
>> using a function. If it were a true one-piece manual, it would be more
>> likely to contain:
>> 1. First you ----.
>> 2. Then you ----.
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Linda Adams
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin Trevino
>> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:13 PM
>> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Does Audacity Have a Pause Function?
>>
>> Linda,
>> I do use the pause function for editing sometimes.
>> Once you've pressed P to pause the audio, you can press left or right
>> bracket to set selection boundaries.
>> Left bracket sets the selection start wherever you paused the audio.
>> Right bracket sets the selection end wherever you paused the audio.
>> Once you've established a selection boundary you then must press space
>> bar to stop before doing any actual editing.
>> Hope this is helpful.
>> Justin
>> On 4/19/2014 3:23 PM, Robert Hänggi wrote:
>>> 2014-04-19 4:26 GMT+02:00, Linda Adams <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Thank you. This might help for smoother editing, also. Anyway, I
>>>> hope
>>>> so.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Linda
>>> No, it won't. Effects, deleting and so on does not work when playback
>>> is paused. You should use Shift-a to stop the playback and set the
>>> cursor at the new position.
>>> Another useful key for smooth cuts is "Z" which searches for the
>>> nearest zero crossing, i.e. you do not have an ugly click at the
>>> border.
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