[audacity4blind] Re: cursor movement on timeline
- From: William Brandes <geeksbygod@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:12:55 -0400
David. Thanks much. William
On 10/28/13, David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi William,
> welcome to the list.
> If you want save just the sermon, one way of doing this is to delete the
> stuff before, and then delete the stuff afterwards To delete some audio, you
> have to select it, and then press the delete key.
> To select some audio, you have to select the track or tracks containing the
> audio, and then select a time range - for example from the beginning to the
> start of the sermon.
> If you open a file in audacity, then the track is automatically selected. If
> you need to select a track, space bar toggles its selectedness.
> The general scheme for selecting a time range is to position the cursor at
> either that start or end of the time range you want to select, and then set
> the other end of the selected time range. There are a number of methods for
> doing each of these two parts.
> To delete the audio before the sermon, you could move the cursor to the
> start of the sermon, press shift+home to select a time range from the cursor
> to the beginning of the audio, and then press delete.
> One way of moving the cursor to the start of the sermon, is to press
> spacebar to start playback, and then press shift+A just before the sermon
> starts. shift+A stops the playback and moves the cursor to that position.
> This is in contrast to spacebar, which stops the playback, but leaves the
> cursor position unchanged.
> Having to listen through all the audio would be tedious. Fortunately you can
> seek back and forwards during playback using left arrow and right arrow
> respectively, and you and seek in larger jumps using shift+left arrow and
> shift+right arrow. (you can set these short and long periods that you can
> seek by on the playback category of the preferences dialog, which you can
> open on the edit menu.).
> To delete the audio after the sermon, move the cursor to the end of the
> sermon, press shift+end to select a time range from the end of the sermon to
> the end of the audio, and press delete.
>
> There's a guide to audacity for jaws users which is available here:
> http://goo.gl/Qi2CeD
> Nearly all of it is also applicable to users of NVDA and Window-Eyes.
>
> David.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sat, 26/10/13, William Brandes <geeksbygod@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Subject: [audacity4blind] cursor movement on timeline
> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, 26 October, 2013, 21:37
>
> from a newbie. i know how to get the
> cursor at the start and end of
> audio timeline. but, how do i move the cursor down the
> timeline with
> the keyboard? what i need to do is take a church worship
> audio and
> trim so that only the sermon is saved. thanks.w william
>
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