Hi Jen!
It is possible to just copy and paste a passage into a track. Press
ctrl-shift-A to unselect all tracks, then Press enter on your corrected
recording to select it.
Press j to move the cursor to the start of the track and then shift-k to select
the audio to the end. Press ctrl-c to copy to clipboard.
Press enter to unselect that track and enter again on the target track. Play up
to the point where the correct version should be inserted. During Playback,
press x to stop and set the cursor at that position. If x doesn't work, you
have an older version of Audacity and need to press shift-A instead.
Press the space bar to play and listen if the cursor is placed correctly. Press
space bar again to stop playback. This will not move the cursor. To adjust the
cursor position press left or right arrow and test again by pressing space bar.
If the passage you want to replace has already been removed, you can now press
ctrl-v to paste from clipboard. The rest of the audio in that track will be
pushed to the right to accommodate the insertion.
If the passage in question has not yet been removed, press space bar to start
playback and press right bracket at the end of the passage to set the right
selection boundary.
You can press shift-arrow-left or right to extend the selection respectively if
required. Ctrl-shift-arrow-right will move the left edge, that's to say the
start of your selection to the right and ctrl-shift-arrow-left moves the right
edge, the end, to the left.
Press c to hear a preview of the cut. You will hear a short passage before the
selected audio and a short passage after it, as if the selected audio had been
removed. When you hear no snippets from the start or end of the passage to be
removed, the selection is perfect.
Now press ctrl-v to paste from clipboard. Regardless of the lengths of the
source passage and the selection, the latter will be replaced by the former.
Cheers! Robbie
-----Original Message-----
From: audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jennifer Bose
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 6:23 AM
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Request for help inserting a missing sentence
into a narration
Hi, Robert and list.
Robert, thanks for your step-by-step answer. I confess that I’m a little more
of a beginner and would appreciate a little more guidance with this. Please
tell me how to select to the end of a track. Using keys, I’m thinking that
would be left-bracket and shift-K. Please let me know if that’s right. I was
hoping that inserting a sentence would just be a nice cut-and-paste deal, but
being a good editor means knowing more than that, I see. Thanks.
Jen
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 26, 2017, at 12:13 AM, Robert Hänggi <aarjay.robert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Jennifer
I've expected that some experienced user would give you an answer sooner.
Now, here is mine for what it is worth. ;)
First, select all from the point onwards where the phrase should be
inserted, i.e. to the end of the track.
Step 1
Go to edit -> clip boundaries -> split new.
(Shortcut Control+Shift+Alt+I)
There is now a second track that holds the tail of your narration.
You can now record your phrase.
However, the further procedure depends on what recording mode is your
default (append or to new track).
Step 2a, For the former case (append):
Select only the first track and mute the second one. Record go to Step
3 Step 2b (Record creates a new track) Mute all. Record. There are now
three tracks. Move the last one up (Context menu, shift+m) such that
the recorded track is now between head and tail.
Step 3
Select all
Go to Tracks -> Align Tracks -> End to End (Don't forget to unmute all
tracks)
All that remains is to check if all is OK. You might wish to delete
some silence etc. In this case, do the third step again after editing.
You're ready to save or export. Note that you don't have to make the
tracks into one again. The normal export feature does this
automatically.
Cheers
Robert
On 24/12/2017, Jennifer Bose <jen10514@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear listers:
I’m recording a track and need to re-record and insert a small amount
of text that didn’t record well originally. Please tell me how to do that.
Thanks.
Jen
Sent from my iPhone
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