[audacity4blind] Re: Using the clipboard to mix packages
- From: Steve the Fiddle <stevethefiddle@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 21:43:27 +0100
There are several approaches that you can take. Whatever works for you is
the best approach.
There is nothing wrong with the way that you are doing it now, other than
it is a little arduous. I've used that approach myself when working on very
large complex projects and find it a good way to keep organised in complex
projects.
Copy and pasting between different projects as Robbie suggested is another
method, though you need to be very careful if you are using multiple WAV,
AIFF or FLAC audio files. If you use that method, go to "Edit > Preferences
> Import/Export" and set "When importing audio files" to "Make a copy of
uncompressed audio files before editing (safer)".
The method that I generally prefer is to do it all in one project but with
multiple tracks. As a simple example, if you want the start and the end
sections from a longer track, select the start section and duplicate it to
a new track, then create another new track (Tracks menu) and copy and paste
the end section from the original track to this third track. Then mute the
first (original) track. Muted tracks do not play and are not included in
the exported files, but still exist in the Audacity project, so you can
copy and paste additional sections as required.In effect, you are using the
original track as one giant clipboard, which you can mute when not needed.
Steve
On 2 July 2014 19:50, Robbie <tickleberryfun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
> You needn't export the tracks you've edited in order to import them into a
> different project. Instead you can open both projects, select the track in
> the source project, press j shift-k to select the audio, press ctrl-c to
> copy it into the clipboard, change to the destination project and press
> ctrl-v to paste. The track will be added to the track table. This also
> works
> with multiple selected tracks or an entire project. So you could do it
> track
> by track or paste all the tracks into the destination project and align the
> tracks as needed.
> Of course you could also import the long roar material into the destination
> project and edit it there, for instance by selecting the audio you want as
> a
> separate track, pressing ctrl-x to cut, inserting a new track via the track
> menu and pasting the clipboard into the new track. This will save you the
> effort of handling two projects, but it also means a lot of soloing and
> unsoloing during the editing process.
>
> Cheers! Robbie
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 8:20 PM
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> Subject: [audacity4blind] Using the clipboard to mix packages
>
> Hi there
>
> Really starting to realise the power of Audacity and exactly what it can
> do.
> I'm keen now though to use the clipboard to mix packages.
>
> At the minute I am isolating clips within a longer piece of audio I'm
> editing and then exporting them as individual wav files before importing
> them back into a different project and laying them where I want. I'm
> hoping
> though there's a quicker way to do this using a clipboard or such thing.
> Does anyone have any idea if this is the case? I know how to manipulate
> the
> cursor in order to put each track where I want and then use the gain
> function etc to alter the levels, but it strikes me that there's bound to
> be
> a quicker way to do this.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Johny
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