Hi David, I almost never use control-a, but in order to get to a specific point in a long file for the insertion I am referring to, I press the left bracket to bring up the time spin boxes, specify the minutes and seconds, tab over to OK, and find my exact entry point from there. Could this be a problem when I then paste in the file to be inserted? If I press the home key to deselect any audio as you suggest, I still need to find my entry point without listening to or right-arrowing through the entire long file.
Rich De Steno On 11/12/2014 9:58 AM, David Bailes wrote:
Hi Rich, one possibility for the behaviour which you describe, is that before using the left bracket, you've pressed ctrl+a to select everything. Pressing ctrl+a selected all the tracks and selects a time range which covers all the audio. If you press left bracket during playback when there's a time range already selected, this changes the position of the start of the time range, and leaves the end of the time range unchanged. If this has been the problem, then either: 1. after pressing ctrl+a, press home to deslect any time range and move the cursor to time zero. 2. Instead of use ctrl+a, either use enter to toggle the selectedness of tracks, or press ctrl+shift+k to select all tracks (without affecting whether a time range is selected). If this wasn't the problem, could you give a detailed list of actions that you're doing? David. On Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 13:32, Rich De Steno <ironrock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I know this subject has come up before on this list, but I still cannot get it right. When I want to insert a piece of audio or a track within an existing track, I place a left square bracket at the entry point in the existing track and press control-v for pasting. However, this always overwrites the prior audio after the left bracket, rather than pushing it back. I get around this by braking up the sections into separate tracks and using the connect tracks option in the tracks menu, but that involves more work. How do you paste audio within an existing track without overwriting?
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