Oh, that shift+enter trick while on an item in the menu system is nifty!
Thanks,
David
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Selecting audio
On 25/11/2020, Stuart Lawler <stuart.lawler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Robert,
Thanks so much for your explanation. So, if I'm scrubbing right, is
that audio automatically being selected, or do I need to hold down the
shift key
to tell Audacity that I want the audio to be selected as I scrub? And,
I'm not clear on the concepts of contracting and expanding on the
right and left. The terminology and indeed the method seems rather
different to sound Forge, which is the editor I've been most familiar
with, and which seems to have a more logical set of keystrokes for close-up
editing.
Regards,
Stuart
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<audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Robert Hänggi
Sent: 25 November 2020 19:54
To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Selecting audio
Hi Stuart
Nice to see you on this list. I met you during your presentation at
the 2018 NVDACon, if I don't err.
I hope you will attend this year as visitor (4/5/6 December).
To your question:
1. The audio should be stopped, not paused (x key during playback or
left bracket and space bar to stop).
2. Reset the zoom level to normal since it will affect the step size
(Control+2) 3. You can zoom in or out with Control+1 and Control+3
respectively.
4. you can scrub to the right position with u/i (also affected by zoom) 5.
Shift+Right expands to the right and Shift+Left to the left 6.
Control+Shift+Right contracts on the left side and Left contracts on
Control+Shift+the right side.
7. When you hit "C" you can preview how it would sound when the
selected audio is deleted (e.g. with the delete key) 8. If you hear a
click, hit "Z", this places the selection boundaries at the nearest
zero crossings (= low amplitude at cut point). This often helps
This all assumes that you have enabled the full key set (Preferences
-> keyboard -> default button -> full from the opened drop down)
That should get you going.
Cheers
Robert
On 25/11/2020, Stuart Lawler
<stuart.lawler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
HI all,
I'd love some clarification please in how is best to select very
small pieces of audio.
On other editors that I have used one can pause the track and simply
hold down the shift key and arrow right. As you arrow right, the
selected audio is played, it might only be a breath for example, or a
clearing of the throat, etc.
Using the left and right brackets while playing the file does not
seem to be the most efficient way to splice out such small chunks of audio.
Am I missing something?
Regards,
Stuart
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