[audacity4blind] Re: editing question
- From: Jennifer Bose <jen10514@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 12:01:41 -0400
Gene, I'm following the instructions on your great presentation, but
having some trouble. Would you or anyone on the list know how to get
to the home key on a Dell laptop using JAWS? If I knew that, I'd
probably be able to do exactly what you've set out here in Audacity.
Thanks.
Jen
On 8/23/13, Jennifer Bose <jen10514@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> , 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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