Thanks, Chris! I thought QuickTime would work as I previously used it under Leopard... But that was so very long ago on a iMac G5 circa 2003... I guess it will have to be Garage Band. Lou (BlindMacMan).
On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:09:29 AM UTC-7, Chris Blouch wrote: > > I couldn't figure out an easy way to do this with QT. Generally QT has > shortcuts to jump to the ends to cut off junk before and after the good > stuff in your audio, but not a good way to jump in the middle and all > the navigation is slow by counting off seconds as you creep across the > timeline. Long format stuff like this might be best left to a 'real' > audio app like Garage Band or get familiar with a command-line audio > tool like Sox. > > CB > > On 6/27/12 1:05 PM, blindmac...@mac.com wrote: > > Hello... The subject says it... I have a 220 MB AIFF file that I want to > trim about 5 minutes from the center. I bring it into QuickTime, and > position the slider to the beginning of the area that I want to keep. I > select the "Trim..." command and then try to set the "Start Trim" handle to > the "Current Time." But as soon as I press VO-Shift-RightArrow to move the > handle by large amounts of time, VoiceOver says "busy" and I cannot do > anything. I *CAN* move the "Start Trim" handle by 3 tenths of a second > using VO-RightArrow, but this will take *FOREVER* to get to the 52 minute > mark... Any suggestions? (BTW: A sighted friend can do this without > VoiceOver with no problem.) > > > > I am on a new 13" MacBookPro running Mac OS 10.7.4. Thanks for any > help... Lou (BlindMacMan). > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/macvisionaries/-/1jiQskDv1D8J. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
