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Hear audio
Dragging the edge of the clip in timeline it would be useful if you hear audio when you adjust start point or end point, especially for audio ones. Is there a method or a function that I don’t know?
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It’s a nice idea in theory. But I’m not sure there’s any way to practically implement it.
You can move an edit point fast, slow, or at any speed in between. It’s locked to the math of positional geometry, not RATE. The audio track, OTOH, is totally dependent on rate. So would you accept the pitch being higher the faster you drag it? Or lower the slower you drag it? Or do you want the interface to somehow store and playback the the audio in real time as you drag at whatever speed you think best? And if so, what should the interface do if you change direction and start to drag back over what you’ve just listened to?
As you can see, there would probably be a LOT of complexity underneath what seems to be a simple idea.
FWIW.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Use the skimmer to find your edit point. You will hear the pitch corrected audio. Then hit option left or right bracket to trim from the front or back of the clip to the position of the skimmer. Use “s” to turn the skimmer off and on so it’s only there when you need it.
NT
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Hi Bill, thank for your answer. I wrote this because my old editing system “VelocityQ” works in that way. When you drag the start or end point you hear audio. Fantastic…isn’t it? In final cut x if you select “Blade” tool and drag long the clip… you hear the pitch corrected audio and I was just wondering why you couldn’t do with the start or end point as my old software do.
Hi Nick, I’m working in that way now but if you have other audio clips in that point, skimmer tool play all audio tracks and you are bound to mute other audio tracks… wasting time. That’s all 🙂 -
Interesting.
I’ll have to expand my thinking. Clearly modern processors are so fast I guess they can breeze through the calculations required to display, translate, skim, and output audio and video streams in real time a lot more efficiently than they used to.
Time and technology march on and with sharp enough math, even the counterintuitive is trivial I guess.“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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