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  • shift audio track

    Posted by Lizkateland on April 28, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    whats the quickest way to move a whole audio track down just 1 frame(its an hour show)though it would only be parts of tracks in certain sections – i have to believe there is an easy way to do this?

    Lizkateland replied 17 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Lars Fuchs

    April 28, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    Well, one way is to insert exactly one frame of silence at the very beginning of the track; that will shift everything down one. Note that you can insert silence simply by disabling the source-side track selectors. Alternately you could use the red segment mode and select everything in the track and press ‘>’ to move everything down one frame. If you like this method, you can lock all the other tracks to make it easier to select everything in the track you want to move. There are other ways, for example using trim mode.

    It gets trickier if you only want to move certain sections. To make it easier to see what you’re doing, you might want to set the sections you want to move to a different color in the timeline using the local color option. Even better might be to move all the audio that needs to be shifted into a new track using the red segment mode, and then sliding just that track down one frame (using the aforementioned methods).

  • Terence Curren

    April 29, 2009 at 9:41 am

    [Lars Fuchs] “Alternately you could use the red segment mode and select everything in the track”

    Which is even easier using the “select all forward” button that was added back in 3.something.

    Terence Curren
    http://www.alphadogs.tv
    http://www.digitalservicestation.com
    Burbank,Ca

  • Lizkateland

    April 29, 2009 at 2:39 pm

    thanks you so much – i knew a couple of ways to do it, but your shortcuts were helpful – thanks again!

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