True. I forgot to tell that. Another nice thing is that you can read the selected zoom level with the VO-cursor. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail & MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/
On 24/08/2009, at 20.26, Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > > Thanks for the great info, Soren! One thing I can add is that changing > the zoom level changes how quickly you can make noticeable changes > with A, S, D, and F. Command-G decreases the zoom level and Command- > Shift-G increases it. So if those letter commands don't appear to be > doing anything, press Command-Shift-G and try them again. > > Best, > Anna > > > > On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: > >> >> Hi Gene. >> >> First of all, I recommend you to do the following: >> 1: Open up the preferences by pressing command comma. >> 2: Choose the general tab >> 3: Move the VO-cursor to the left for some weird reason, and find the >> playback settings. Set the "If selection is empty" to "Play from >> insertion point." If you change this setting, your playhead will >> always follow your insertion point if you moves your insertion ppoint >> by pressing the left or right arrow keys. >> >> If you wanna select a part of your audiofile, you can do the >> following: >> 1: Press the spacebar to start the playback. >> 2: Press the spacebar again to pause the playback when you have found >> the place where you wanna start your selection. >> 3: Now, you can choose to select in 3 different ways: >> 1: If you wanna select a few seconds, you can simply hold down the >> shift key, and then select by pressing the right arrow key. Please >> note that the audio has to be stopped or paused to be able to select >> anything. You can always press the spacebar to hear how much you have >> selected. >> 2: You can place a marker at the playheads perfsition by pressing the >> p-key >> 3: Or you can press command y to move the insertion point to the >> playhead, and then press m to place a marker. >> If you use step 2 or 3 to start your selection, you have to find the >> perfsition in the audiofile where you wanna end your selection. So >> start the playback again by pressing the spacebar, pause when you >> wanna end your selection and re-peed either step 2 or 3 to place a >> second marker. >> Now you have placed two markers, so now you have to select the audio >> between these two markers you've placed. You can do that by pressing >> command left arrow if you have focussed on the last marker you've >> placed, or command right arrow, if you've focussed on the first >> marker >> you've placed. You can move between the markers by pressing option >> left and right arrow. >> When you have made a selection, you can then move the left edge of >> your selection to the left or right by pressing a or s, or you can >> move the right edge of the selection by pressing d or f. You can also >> press e to hear what it sounds like if you delete the selected audio. >> >> If you wanna enable the loop playback, you can do it in the following >> way: >> 1: Find the "Loop playback" with the VO-cursor, and check the >> checkbox >> by pressing VO spacebar. >> 2: Move back to the scroll-area, press VO command f5 to move the >> mouse >> to the VO-cursor and press VO shift spacebar to gain focus on the >> scroll area again. >> >> I hope it explains how it works. >> >> If someone wants to upload this guide to Lioncourt.com, >> ICanWorkThisThing.com or other websites which contains useful guides, >> you are welcome to check the guide for misspelled words and >> grammatical errors and upload the guide. Please let me know before >> you >> upload it. >> Best regards: >> Søren Jensen >> Mail & MSN: >> s...@coolfortheblind.dk >> Website: >> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >> >> On 23/01/2009, at 21.23, Gene Richburg wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi yeah I gota say that I don't understand how you select something >>> either I >>> read that quick start guide on icanwork this thing.com but it gets >>> kind of >>> complecated trying to get the program to select something. I have >>> tried >>> setting the markers but that doesn't work and when I try to either >>> extend >>> the selection either to the next or previous marker the e key still >>> isn't >>> selecting what I thought I had selected. So I tried sound studio >>> but am >>> having a hard time finding any selecting commands in the manual. >>> Can >>> someone try to explain how this works? >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Søren Jensen" <s...@coolfortheblind.dk> >>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:29 PM >>> Subject: Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi Krister. >>> >>> I forgot to say that I don't find this extremely annoying because >>> you >>> can always press e to check what it sounds like if you delete the >>> selected audio. What an awesome feature. >>> Best regards: >>> Søren Jensen >>> Mail & MSN: >>> s...@coolfortheblind.dk >>> Website: >>> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >>> >>> On 23/08/2009, at 21.18, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 23 aug 2009 kl. 19.06 skrev Søren Jensen: >>>> >>>>> I just wish it was possible to >>>>> move the markers or selection while the audio is playing so you >>>>> could >>>>> hear the changes you made. >>>> >>>> Exactly my centiments too. It would be much easier to precition >>>> edit >>>> if you could hear what you were doing while doing it. >>>> /Krister >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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