[ddots-l] Re: scrubbing question
- From: "Mike Tyo" <mtyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:29:59 -0400
Your welcome, sir.
As far as scrubbing in the clips pane, you can read extensively in the
CakeTalking tutorial about how to work in the clips pane, which I would highly
recommend. If you've done any editing there, you'll be familiar with some of
the keystrokes. I'll get you started in a nutshell, but you'll want to read up
on it at some point when you have a chance. I can't remember off the top of my
head which lessons deal with it, but there are several that start you from
scratch and take you right through working with the VVocal editor.
Anyway, get to a position in your track that you want to edit. Then, to get to
the clips pane from the track pane, hit ctrl+Down Arrow. Once you're there,
CakeTalking will tell you that, of course. Then hit f-6, which will put the
scrub cursor at your current position. CakeTalking will give you some options
that you can do from that point. You'll probably want to zoom in quite a bit
before you start actually scrubbing so that you can zero in on the data you
want to delete; you do this by hitting numpad-2 until you've zoomed in to where
you want it. CakeTalking will tell you how much data's displayed each time you
hit numpad-2. Lock the mouse with JAWS-Key+Star on your numpad and use
Numpad+1, 4, or 7 to scrub backward, or numpad+3, 6, or 9 to scrub forward. The
lower keys will scrub in smaller units, while the higher keys will scrub in
larger units. Set your from and through times, or set markers at the beginning
and end of the area that you want to delete, then do your usual method of
selecting the track according to from and through times, or use Alt-F11, which
will select between markers. It'll be easier to where headphones so you can
hear things more clearly, especially when you're trying to delete breaths, etc.
Remember that you have to scrub to just a bit before the area that you want to
deal with starts, then unlock the mouse with JAWS-Key+Star on your numpad
before you set your from time or marker; then do likewise at the end of the
area that you're working with. This can become a bit time-consuming, but it's
all in what you're wanting to accomplish.
You might also approach it from another angle by patching a noise gate into the
track and use a preset that's already there that might suppress the breaths but
maintain the vocal so that it doesn't sound like it's being chopped up. If you
have a lot of breaths throughout the recording that are offensive, this might
be a somewhat quicker way of dealing with it. By the way, if you're scrubbing
and you find that you need to zoom out, hit numpad-8. Make sure your mouse is
unlocked before you do this. You'll also want to reposition the scrub cursor
before you start scrubbing again.
Hope this helps; but again, you're going to want to read in more detail in the
CakeTalking tutorial.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Howerton
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 19:20
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: scrubbing question
Thank you Mike. How would I scrub in the clips pane then? I'm trying to
delete breaths from a vocal track and it's pretty challenging.
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