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Range tool on an independent audio clip?
Sometimes I want to take a bit of audio and repeat it somewhere else. Rather than cutting and pasting it out I’d prefer to use the range tool. I thought I’d be able to click on the independent audio clip and use I and O but no, it seems it’s only the main timeline where that works. Is there a way of making the range tool work elsewhere than the primary timeline? Thanks!
Near Geneva, Switzerland
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Enable View>clip skimming …
FRANCOIS
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Hi Francois – I much appreciate your reply but could you please give me a bit more detail? Based on what you wrote I enabled Clip Skimming (Opt+Cmd+S) but that still only provided a range in the main storyline/Timeline, not in an independent audio track attached below the storyline/Timeline.
Very much looking forward to your reply and thanks in advance.
Near Geneva, Switzerland
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Unless I’m misunderstanding, you can just hold down the r key on your keyboard and draw out a range on any clip, no matter where it is (main storyline or an individual audio clip below the storyline).
If you just tap the r key, you’ll be in range selection mode; you’ll need to remember to tap “a” to go back to the regular selection mode. But if you hold down the r key while you drag out your range, and then release the r key, it’ll go back to selection mode automatically.
I just tested this on an independent audio clip below my main storyline and it works.
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[Brian Thomas] “that still only provided a range in the main storyline/Timeline, not in an independent audio track attached below the storyline/Timeline.”
If clip skimming is enabled, you can use R mode and draw a range on a detached audio clip, then copy and paste that elsewhere via Edit>Paste as Connected Clip. This works for both primary and secondary storylines, and for both primary and connected clips.
If you are *inside* a multi-cam clip, then it won’t show the clip skimmer on the monitoring angle; you’d have to select a different monitoring angle with the little TV icon at left of each angle, then skim the non-monitoring angle. Inside an MC clip you can select and copy a range but there is no option to paste as connected clip. But you can paste it to the monitoring angle then move it using position mode (P key).
You can verify clip skimming is working if the thin red skimmer playhead is only the height of a single clip. If the thin red line is the full height of the timeline that is the regular skimmer not the clip skimmer.
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Wow – for all these years I only ever used A, T and P as Tools! I’m sure this would have been covered in the tutorials I took back in the day but, you know, one forgets…. Many thanks to all of you!!
Near Geneva, Switzerland
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FYI, one of the REALLY useful applications of the range tool when applying it to audio clips is to bring down levels of a particularly loud section of a clip. Just draw a range around the loud section and pull down on the volume bar so the average levels are more in line with those in the rest of the clip. This is a nice, precise way to control dynamic range without having to resort to a compressor (or if you still use a compressor it allows you to compress more lightly, with a more transparent result).
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Again, wow, yes – much faster than manually inserting keyframes all over the place. Much appreciate you pointing that out!
Near Geneva, Switzerland
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