Hi Andrew,
just to add a clarification to your good advice. I'm not sure whether
you're suggesting pressing k followed by j to ensure there is no selection,
or pressing either of them. If you press either j or k, then any selection
is deselected, and the cursor is moved to the start or end of the audio in
the selected tracks.
David.
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 22:41, Andrew Downie <access_tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Brian
Ted’s suggestion is spot on. One thing I have become very diligent about
is to make sure audio is not selected when I do not want it to be. You do
not have to set a right marker, provided no audio is selected. I often
press k to go to the end of the track and j to return to the beginning
before editing and that ensures that no audio is selected. But if you are
in the middle of the track and do not want to lose your place, pressing
left arrow will also clear the selection if there is one and does no harm
if there is not. Right arrow will also clear the selection, but will place
you at the end of the selection.
Andrew
*From:* audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <
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*Sent:* Monday, 14 September 2020 5:25 AM
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*Subject:* [audacity4blind] Re: inserting silence
Hi Ted, thanks for that. Stupidly I hadn’t set the right marker, as you
suggested. Oh well, falling at the first hurdle. Thanks for your help. Brian
On 13 Sep 2020, at 7:29 pm, tr.galanos@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
First, make sure left and right markers are “on top of each other”, or at
exactly the same point in time. It will push everything else on the
selected track or tracks to the right 2 seconds.
What is happening, I think, is since your right marker is at the end of
the track, you are silencing everything between the markers.
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audacity4blind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *Brian
*Sent:* Sunday, September 13, 2020 12:42 PM
*To:* audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [audacity4blind] inserting silence
Hi all, I want to insert 2 seconds silence into a short track. I set the
left marker to the spot where I want the silence to begin, press alt +g
then letter s. I set the time to the length of silence required then press
enter. I then select the whole track, press space to play and when the
track reaches the point where I have inserted silence I hear no more. Can
anyone suggest what stage I am missing?
Many thanks,
Brian
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