[audacity4blind] Re: Help using audacity
- From: David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:29:10 +0000 (GMT)
Hi Sean,
just a few points:
1. When you align with cursor, this shifts all selected tracks, so in your case
the voice track should be selected, and the music track unselected.
2. When you playback in audacity, it plays back all tracks, unless some tracks
are set to solo or mute (see the more advanced editing section of the jaws
guide for more details). It doesn't depend on whether or not the tracks are
selected.
3. I presume that after positioning the cursor and before using align you
didn't press home or end which would have moved the cursor.
David.
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From: Sean Paul <newsandtraffic@xxxxxxx>
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, 12 December 2011, 20:21
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Help using audacity
Heyya David:
I have the voice track edited down to have almost
no silence at the beginning of it. I was able to make & edit the files with
no problems once I got the hang of doing it. I recorded the voice track &
edited it. Found the music track I wanted to use, edited & faded it. Then
saved both files. I did both of these as separate projects & then exported
them & saved them to the desktop. Then I went back & imported them both
in to a project with to different tracks there. I first went to the music
track,
selected it, found the place where I wanted the voice track to come in, set the
cursor using shift A, then deselected that track. I then went down & made
sure the voice track was there, played it, I did not do anything with it other
than play it. I then went & found aline with cursor in the tracks menu.
Then, nothing, the music file was in both places then. Hope this helps. I don't
think I left out any steps as I wrote this.
----- Original Message -----
>From: David Bailes
>To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 14:44
>Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Help using audacity
>
>
>Hi Sean,
>you appear to be doing the right sort of thing, so it's a question a working
>out what's going wrong.
>After you shift the voice track using the align with cursor command, then the
>position of cursor should remain unchanged, that is its where you wanted the
>voice track to start. So if you press space to start playback, you should
>hear the start of the voice track.
>If this isn't the case, maybe try something simpler first:
>1. Just import the voice track into a project.
>2. move the cursor to a few seconds into this voice track.
>3. time shift the voice track so that is starts at the cursor position.
>4. if you press spacebar it should start to play from the beginning of the
>audio in the voice track.
>5. If you then press home to move the cursor to time zero, and press space
>bar, there should be a few seconds of silence before the audio starts.
>Does this simple example work?
>
>
>David.
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Sean Paul <newsandtraffic@xxxxxxx>
>To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Monday, 12 December 2011, 13:56
>Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Help using audacity
>
>
>
>Well, apparently I just can't get this. That didn't work for me either. I
>imported both files, selected the music track, found the location where I
>wanted the voice track to come in, placed the cursor, unselected the music
>track, selected the spoken or voice track, alined the tracks using the aline
>with cursor, & had the music track in both tracks in the table then with no
>spoken track @ all. Exported it in MP3 just to make sure, & played the
>exported MP3 track which was just the music track.
>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Sean Paul
>>To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 08:40
>>Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Help using audacity
>>
>>
>>Perfect,
>>I'll give this a try. Thanks so much.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: Robbie
>>>To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 08:31
>>>Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Help using audacity
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Sean!
>>>Using the music track, you need to put the cursor where you want the spoken
>>>word track to begin. You can set the cursor by pressing shift-a, then
>>>adjust it with the arrow keys. Next make sure to unselect the music track
>>>and select the spoken track. Now you need to align the selected track with
>>>the cursor position. You’ll find this option in the Align Tracks submenu
>>>located in the Tracks menu. Note that if you change the length of the music
>>>track later on, this will effect the position of the cross fade.
>>>
>>>Cheers, Robbie
>>>From:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>[mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean Paul
>>>Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 1:46 PM
>>>To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Subject: [audacity4blind] Help using audacity
>>>
>>> Hello:
>>>Thanks so much for this list & any help which anyone is able to give me
>>>going forward.
>>>I have read the manual several times but I'm not able to figure out exactly
>>>what it is that I'm doing wrong.
>>>I am attempting to put together my first podcast. I have both the files I
>>>intend to use. My intro music & my recorded spoken audio. I am wanting the
>>>spoken audio to come in when the music begins to fade. I've already got the
>>>file set, the music fading in the right place but I'm not exactly sure how
>>>to place the spoken audio where I want it to go. I've tried pulling both
>>>files in to a table, selecting all of the audio on the spoken file &
>>>pasting it where I want it in the music track. No go.
>>>What is the best way to make this happen? Thanks again.
>
>
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