[audacity4blind] Re: editing question
- From: Jennifer Bose <jen10514@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 00:09:39 -0400
, listers.
Thanks to all of you who wrote back with suggestions about editing
portions of a recording. Gene, I downloaded your presentation and
particularly enjoyed it. Although I knew much of what was covered in
the beginning, I found it useful to go over and I got great answers to
my editing questions. This is worth a listen or two or three for any
beginner who's self-taught (with help from this list, of course.)
Here's my next question: What do I do on a Dell laptop that is
equivalent to the Home and End key? I'm using Audacity primarily on my
laptop.
Thanks.
Jen
On 8/20/13, Gene <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> First, control x is cut as in cutting to the clipboard. Instead of
> needlessly placing what you want to delete in memory in the clipboard, use
> the delete command for Audacity, control k. If you decide to remove large
> amounts of material, using control x will place a lot of material in
> memory, needlessly using it.
>
> You are cutting the material using the correct procedure. the reason it
> appears that you have removed earlier material is that play starts from
> the position of the left marker. the left marker is still where it was.
> if you use home after you delete the material, you will move the left
> marker to the start of the file and play will begin at the start of the
> file.
>
> Learning in a proper organized manner will save you lots of unnecessary
> problems. Depending on what you already know, you may or may not find
> the following of use. I think that at least skimming the material would
> be worth doing. You can download a presentation I did on the basics of
> Audacity using this link:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25812011/recording%20presentation.zip
>
> The first part of the presentation deals with Audacity and the second part
> deals with Mp3 Direct Cut.
>
> Gene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jennifer Bose
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:58 PM
> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi, listers.
>>
>> I have a question about editing a recording.
>>
>> If I'm using Audacity with JAWS and I've recorded myself reading a few
>> pages of something, for example, how do I go back and edit out the
>> page turns? The way I thought it worked with keyboard commands was to
>> get to the place where you hear the page-turn, pause the recording,
>> put a left-bracket in front of that sound, pause again after the sound
>> and put a right-bracket on the other side, then press Control-X to cut
>> out the bracketed area. What seems to happen, though, when I try that
>> is that I lose everything before the tiny area I bracketed off, even
>> though all I selected was a second's worth of recording. Please tell
>> me what to do differently.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jen
>>
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