[audacity4blind] Re: Help using audacity
- From: "Sean Paul" <newsandtraffic@xxxxxxx>
- To: <audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:07:32 -0500
David:
Thanks so much for that. We got that finished & working great. Now one more
question. For now at least. I'm wanting to put a very small voice track ahead
of where the music starts. Best way to make this happen? Got it recorded & it's
like 7 seconds long. Then I want the music to start upon the smalltrack ending.
I've tried several different things. Like setting a cursor & trying to aline
with no luck. It's over the first part of the music. &, I'm wanting the music
to start right after it ends. Thanks again for all of your help.
----- Original Message -----
From: David Bailes
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 16:29
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Help using audacity
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.
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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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