Hi, This sounds like a great idea.
Another tip I thought might be worth sharing is that you can speed up or slow down playback with Up and Down arrows. When trying to start or end a selection at a very precise spot, being able to play very slowly can help. And when trying to get a quick overview of how something sounds, speeding up can be great. Best, Anna On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > > > Hi and thanks for that tip. My only gripe against Amadeus and other > sound editors on the Mac side of things is that editing takes too many > key strokes. Yeah, sure you can hear what you have selected by > pressing spacebar for each and every arrow movement or "s", "a", "d" > and so on you do, but wouldn't it be just fantastic if you could do > like in Goldwave and such that you had an adjustable pre/post roll > that worked like this: As soon as you moved the beginning of a > selection, you hear a little amount of sound, say half a second or so > from the point you moved, and if you moved the end of the selection > you similarly hear a roll of sound up to the point you're moving. That > way you audibly could hear what you are selecting and can presition > edit fast. This feature of course should be optional so that you could > turn it on and off. > /Krister > > 24 aug 2009 kl. 21.42 skrev Esther: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm not sure whether people will find this useful, but if you've made >> a selection, and then go to the Selection menu on the Amadeus Pro >> menu >> bar to choose "Generate Markers" and then just press enter (without >> changing any of the settings in the dialog window that appears), >> you'll get markers generated at every silence point (that is at least >> 1 second long) over your selection. This is really helpful if you >> want to split off or edit sections at gaps. I believe the markers >> get >> placed at the middle of silence gaps. So if you've made a selection >> by manually placing markers at the beginning and end, and you want to >> get a "clean" break, you can generate markers over your selected >> region, then use "s" to move the starting point of your selection >> ahead in time (into the part where someone has started talking), and >> use "d" to move the ending point of your selection slightly back in >> time (where the comment is not finished), then use command-right >> arrow >> and command-left arrow to push the selection boundaries to match the >> automatically placed silence markers at the start and end of your >> selection. (Hope this doesn't sound too confusing!). >> >> Another example: If I record a cassette tape of songs with Amadeus >> Pro, I can use the "Generate Markers" option, and if I select all >> (Command-A) after trimming the start and end, and then choose a time >> for the silence gap of something like 20 seconds, I can use the >> "Split >> according to markers" command in the "Sound" menu to automatically >> split the recording up into its component songs. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> Søren Jensen wrote: >> >>> >>> 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/ >>> >>> 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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