[audacity4blind] Re: Using the clipboard to mix packages
- From: Johny Cassidy <johny.cassidy1@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 07:38:05 +0000
Nice one Steve. Thanks for that. Seems like I’m on the right road, even if it’s
a long road. It’ll get less cumbersome I suppose with time.
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Sent: 02 July 2014 21:43
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: Using the clipboard to mix packages
There are several approaches that you can take. Whatever works for you is the
best approach.
There is nothing wrong with the way that you are doing it now, other than it is
a little arduous. I've used that approach myself when working on very large
complex projects and find it a good way to keep organised in complex projects.
Copy and pasting between different projects as Robbie suggested is another
method, though you need to be very careful if you are using multiple WAV, AIFF
or FLAC audio files. If you use that method, go to "Edit > Preferences >
Import/Export" and set "When importing audio files" to "Make a copy of
uncompressed audio files before editing (safer)".
The method that I generally prefer is to do it all in one project but with
multiple tracks. As a simple example, if you want the start and the end
sections from a longer track, select the start section and duplicate it to a
new track, then create another new track (Tracks menu) and copy and paste the
end section from the original track to this third track. Then mute the first
(original) track. Muted tracks do not play and are not included in the exported
files, but still exist in the Audacity project, so you can copy and paste
additional sections as required.In effect, you are using the original track as
one giant clipboard, which you can mute when not needed.
Steve
On 2 July 2014 19:50, Robbie
<tickleberryfun@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:tickleberryfun@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi!
You needn't export the tracks you've edited in order to import them into a
different project. Instead you can open both projects, select the track in
the source project, press j shift-k to select the audio, press ctrl-c to
copy it into the clipboard, change to the destination project and press
ctrl-v to paste. The track will be added to the track table. This also works
with multiple selected tracks or an entire project. So you could do it track
by track or paste all the tracks into the destination project and align the
tracks as needed.
Of course you could also import the long roar material into the destination
project and edit it there, for instance by selecting the audio you want as a
separate track, pressing ctrl-x to cut, inserting a new track via the track
menu and pasting the clipboard into the new track. This will save you the
effort of handling two projects, but it also means a lot of soloing and
unsoloing during the editing process.
Cheers! Robbie
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Subject: [audacity4blind] Using the clipboard to mix packages
Hi there
Really starting to realise the power of Audacity and exactly what it can do.
I'm keen now though to use the clipboard to mix packages.
At the minute I am isolating clips within a longer piece of audio I'm
editing and then exporting them as individual wav files before importing
them back into a different project and laying them where I want. I'm hoping
though there's a quicker way to do this using a clipboard or such thing.
Does anyone have any idea if this is the case? I know how to manipulate the
cursor in order to put each track where I want and then use the gain
function etc to alter the levels, but it strikes me that there's bound to be
a quicker way to do this.
Thanks for any help
Johny
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