[audacity4blind] Re: editing question
- From: Jennifer Bose <jen10514@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 15:28:56 -0400
On 10/5/13, David Bailes <david_bailes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jen,
> possible solutions:
> 1. press jaws key + 1 to turn on keyboard help. then press each key to see
> if one of them is the home key.
> 2. sometimes if there isn't a home key, then you can press fn + left arrow.
> 3. If you let me know the model of the laptop, I may be able to look it up.
>
> David.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jennifer Bose <jen10514@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, 5 October 2013, 17:01
> Subject: [audacity4blind] Re: editing question
>
> Gene, I'm following the instructions on your great presentation, but
> having some trouble. Would you or anyone on the list know how to get
> to the home key on a Dell laptop using JAWS? If I knew that, I'd
> probably be able to do exactly what you've set out here in Audacity.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jen
>
>
> On 8/23/13, Jennifer Bose <jen10514@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> , listers.
>>
>> Thanks to all of you who wrote back with suggestions about editing
>> portions of a recording. Gene, I downloaded your presentation and
>> particularly enjoyed it. Although I knew much of what was covered in
>> the beginning, I found it useful to go over and I got great answers to
>> my editing questions. This is worth a listen or two or three for any
>> beginner who's self-taught (with help from this list, of course.)
>>
>> Here's my next question: What do I do on a Dell laptop that is
>> equivalent to the Home and End key? I'm using Audacity primarily on my
>> laptop.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Jen
>>
>> On 8/20/13, Gene <gsasner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> First, control x is cut as in cutting to the clipboard. Instead of
>>> needlessly placing what you want to delete in memory in the clipboard,
>>> use
>>> the delete command for Audacity, control k. If you decide to remove
>>> large
>>> amounts of material, using control x will place a lot of material in
>>> memory, needlessly using it.
>>>
>>> You are cutting the material using the correct procedure. the reason it
>>> appears that you have removed earlier material is that play starts from
>>> the position of the left marker. the left marker is still where it was.
>>> if you use home after you delete the material, you will move the left
>>> marker to the start of the file and play will begin at the start of the
>>> file.
>>>
>>> Learning in a proper organized manner will save you lots of unnecessary
>>> problems. Depending on what you already know, you may or may not find
>>> the following of use. I think that at least skimming the material would
>>> be worth doing. You can download a presentation I did on the basics of
>>> Audacity using this link:
>>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25812011/recording%20presentation.zip
>>>
>>> The first part of the presentation deals with Audacity and the second
>>> part
>>> deals with Mp3 Direct Cut.
>>>
>>> Gene
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jennifer Bose
>>> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:58 PM
>>> To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Hi, listers.
>>>>
>>>> I have a question about editing a recording.
>>>>
>>>> If I'm using Audacity with JAWS and I've recorded myself reading a few
>>>> pages of something, for example, how do I go back and edit out the
>>>> page turns? The way I thought it worked with keyboard commands was to
>>>> get to the place where you hear the page-turn, pause the recording,
>>>> put a left-bracket in front of that sound, pause again after the sound
>>>> and put a right-bracket on the other side, then press Control-X to cut
>>>> out the bracketed area. What seems to happen, though, when I try that
>>>> is that I lose everything before the tiny area I bracketed off, even
>>>> though all I selected was a second's worth of recording. Please tell
>>>> me what to do differently.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Jen
>>>>
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FN plus left-arrow and FN plus right-arrow brought me to the Home and
End positions. Thanks so much for suggesting that, David.
Jen
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