Hello, I'm not sure whether people will find this useful, but if you've made a selection, and then go to the Selection menu on the Amadeus Pro menu bar to choose "Generate Markers" and then just press enter (without changing any of the settings in the dialog window that appears), you'll get markers generated at every silence point (that is at least 1 second long) over your selection. This is really helpful if you want to split off or edit sections at gaps. I believe the markers get placed at the middle of silence gaps. So if you've made a selection by manually placing markers at the beginning and end, and you want to get a "clean" break, you can generate markers over your selected region, then use "s" to move the starting point of your selection ahead in time (into the part where someone has started talking), and use "d" to move the ending point of your selection slightly back in time (where the comment is not finished), then use command-right arrow and command-left arrow to push the selection boundaries to match the automatically placed silence markers at the start and end of your selection. (Hope this doesn't sound too confusing!).
Another example: If I record a cassette tape of songs with Amadeus Pro, I can use the "Generate Markers" option, and if I select all (Command-A) after trimming the start and end, and then choose a time for the silence gap of something like 20 seconds, I can use the "Split according to markers" command in the "Sound" menu to automatically split the recording up into its component songs. Cheers, Esther Søren Jensen wrote: > > True. I forgot to tell that. Another nice thing is that you can read > the selected zoom level with the VO-cursor. > Best regards: > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > s...@coolfortheblind.dk > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > Woody Anna Dresner wrote: > >> >> Thanks for the great info, Soren! One thing I can add is that >> changing >> the zoom level changes how quickly you can make noticeable changes >> with A, S, D, and F. Command-G decreases the zoom level and Command- >> Shift-G increases it. So if those letter commands don't appear to be >> doing anything, press Command-Shift-G and try them again. >> >> Best, >> Anna >> >> >> >> On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Søren Jensen wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Gene. >>> >>> First of all, I recommend you to do the following: >>> 1: Open up the preferences by pressing command comma. >>> 2: Choose the general tab >>> 3: Move the VO-cursor to the left for some weird reason, and find >>> the >>> playback settings. Set the "If selection is empty" to "Play from >>> insertion point." If you change this setting, your playhead will >>> always follow your insertion point if you moves your insertion >>> ppoint >>> by pressing the left or right arrow keys. >>> >>> If you wanna select a part of your audiofile, you can do the >>> following: >>> 1: Press the spacebar to start the playback. >>> 2: Press the spacebar again to pause the playback when you have >>> found >>> the place where you wanna start your selection. >>> 3: Now, you can choose to select in 3 different ways: >>> 1: If you wanna select a few seconds, you can simply hold down the >>> shift key, and then select by pressing the right arrow key. Please >>> note that the audio has to be stopped or paused to be able to >>> select >>> anything. You can always press the spacebar to hear how much you >>> have >>> selected. >>> 2: You can place a marker at the playheads perfsition by pressing >>> the >>> p-key >>> 3: Or you can press command y to move the insertion point to the >>> playhead, and then press m to place a marker. >>> If you use step 2 or 3 to start your selection, you have to find the >>> perfsition in the audiofile where you wanna end your selection. So >>> start the playback again by pressing the spacebar, pause when you >>> wanna end your selection and re-peed either step 2 or 3 to place a >>> second marker. >>> Now you have placed two markers, so now you have to select the audio >>> between these two markers you've placed. You can do that by pressing >>> command left arrow if you have focussed on the last marker you've >>> placed, or command right arrow, if you've focussed on the first >>> marker >>> you've placed. You can move between the markers by pressing option >>> left and right arrow. >>> When you have made a selection, you can then move the left edge of >>> your selection to the left or right by pressing a or s, or you can >>> move the right edge of the selection by pressing d or f. You can >>> also >>> press e to hear what it sounds like if you delete the selected >>> audio. >>> >>> If you wanna enable the loop playback, you can do it in the >>> following >>> way: >>> 1: Find the "Loop playback" with the VO-cursor, and check the >>> checkbox >>> by pressing VO spacebar. >>> 2: Move back to the scroll-area, press VO command f5 to move the >>> mouse >>> to the VO-cursor and press VO shift spacebar to gain focus on the >>> scroll area again. >>> >>> I hope it explains how it works. >>> >>> If someone wants to upload this guide to Lioncourt.com, >>> ICanWorkThisThing.com or other websites which contains useful >>> guides, >>> you are welcome to check the guide for misspelled words and >>> grammatical errors and upload the guide. Please let me know before >>> you >>> upload it. >>> Best regards: >>> Søren Jensen >>> Mail & MSN: >>> s...@coolfortheblind.dk >>> Website: >>> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >>> >>> On 23/01/2009, at 21.23, Gene Richburg wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi yeah I gota say that I don't understand how you select something >>>> either I >>>> read that quick start guide on icanwork this thing.com but it gets >>>> kind of >>>> complecated trying to get the program to select something. I have >>>> tried >>>> setting the markers but that doesn't work and when I try to either >>>> extend >>>> the selection either to the next or previous marker the e key still >>>> isn't >>>> selecting what I thought I had selected. So I tried sound studio >>>> but am >>>> having a hard time finding any selecting commands in the manual. >>>> Can >>>> someone try to explain how this works? >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Søren Jensen" <s...@coolfortheblind.dk> >>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 1:29 PM >>>> Subject: Re: Simple editing in Amadeus Pro >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Krister. >>>> >>>> I forgot to say that I don't find this extremely annoying because >>>> you >>>> can always press e to check what it sounds like if you delete the >>>> selected audio. What an awesome feature. >>>> Best regards: >>>> Søren Jensen >>>> Mail & MSN: >>>> s...@coolfortheblind.dk >>>> Website: >>>> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >>>> >>>> On 23/08/2009, at 21.18, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 23 aug 2009 kl. 19.06 skrev Søren Jensen: >>>>> >>>>>> I just wish it was possible to >>>>>> move the markers or selection while the audio is playing so you >>>>>> could >>>>>> hear the changes you made. >>>>> >>>>> Exactly my centiments too. It would be much easier to precition >>>>> edit >>>>> if you could hear what you were doing while doing it. >>>>> /Krister >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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