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version 3.2.5 Windows
I do a podcast put together from about 6 different news stories. Each story is produced as a separate track with a music bed under that has a cold start and a fade end so it can play as a stand alone on a radio station. I put them together for a podcast.
I import them and use Tracks - Align Tracks - Align End to End
Now I have the podcast Intro followed by a stories and the next story after that in the order I want down to the Outro.
That works great but I would like to bump the start of each track over the fade of the previous tracks bed without having to manually adjust each track. Is there a way to Align End to End and have it adjust for a .5 second overlap or anything like that?
It is not a big deal but I am wondering if there is an easy way to do it.
Thanks guys that is very close to what I want to do and I have used those features. However I don’t need or want to adjust tracks and mix them. The music bed of the stories fades out quickly at the end of the story so no need to mix. I just want a little bit (.5 of a second or so) of the fade to go over the intro of the next story when I add them using the align feature. I could adjust them all one by one and mix or not mix as needed. I was hoping the align had something I didn’t know about.
If I can’t do it other than the mix features then that’s ok.
The short answer is adjusting the tracks one by one is probably the quickest way.
Work from left to right (top to bottom) so that you can see where the track that you are moving needs to go.
If any track contains more than one audio clip, click on the track and use the shortcut sequence:
“J” (cursor to track start),
“Shift + K” (extend selection to end of track)
so that you can move all of the clips in the track together.
Theoretically it would be possible to write a “Nyquist Macro” to accomplish the task, but unless you need to use this procedure on a daily basis it is probably more work developing the macro than doing the task manually.