Thanks Slau. A bit of a shame. I have a piece of audio that I want to make very precise edits on. Some of the edits won’t work if I just do a crude delete in shuffle mode. In Sonar I would delete the portion of audio I didn’t want, then cut the bit after that portion, and paste it over the top of the end of the previous section, and the two bits of audio would seamlessly crossfade, and you’d never know they had been edited. This has been a technique I’ve used for years, and assumed it was a staple part of editing speech. Say you have a piece of audio that says: “I am trying to … er … learn … ProTools.” I don’t want the ‘ers.’ Now I could just delete them, except this sentence has been recorded in the street and there is the sound of traffic, and so you’d hear the shift in the ambient sound if I just did a crude delete, and it wouldn’t sound natural. It would be an obvious bad edit. So you need to blend the two clips and crossfade them. So you delete an, er, and then take the portion of audio after it, cut it, and paste it over the top of the last second or so of the previous bit, giving you a lovely crossfade and a seamless edit. To do the equivalent of this in PT, it seems as if I’ll have to create a bus, because I’m unfortunately going to be working with multiple tracks, since I can’t do this track merge technique, and I need the same EQ and compression settings to be in play for both tracks. Then I’ll have to delete the piece of audio I don’t want, cut the bit after it, paste it onto a new track, apply a fade out on the first track, then apply a fade in on the second track. As you can see, that’s quite a few more steps.
I don’t mind if this is what I need to do, but I thought I’d explain my reasoning for wanting to do it in case you or anyone else can think of a quicker way of doing this. Oh dear, I am demanding aren’t I? I’m really getting the hang of ProTools, and I have read the manual cursorily, and I’ve listened to the PT with speech tutorials, but I’ve used Sonar for about ten years, and I was lightning fast on the thing. So I’m just trying to migrate my knowledge over to PT. Sorry for all the questions, and thank you again for your patients and help. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
