Merging Clips

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hello and thank you!

Two questions.

One, I’ve uploaded one song to Audacity. Why do 2 tracks appear? And what is the top track and what is the lower track? New to Audacity. Thanks

Two, I’m creating a slideshow. I need a music track. I am combining sections from 5 songs to match the different sections of the slideshow. Do I clip the 90 second segment from a song first and upload that and then merge all clips into a single track? Really need as much help with this. Thank you.

Mike

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A stereo track perhaps? http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/audio_tracks.html

It probably depends what program you are using to make the slide show. Can’t you just import the songs into the slide show program and adjust them to fit?

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Thanks, Steve, for your reply and suggestions. Slideshow I am using is ProShow Gold 5. http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/productreviews/fr/ProShow-Gold.htm. The only music editing that I’ve found on this version is fade in and fade out. Here’s a review of ProShow 6, but like I said I have only ProShow 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eKEoBwxhhXo].

So, I probably need to upload the multiple tracks and cut them in Audacity. Thanks for your excellent efforts and valuable time.

Mike

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On their web site it says:

Use the built-in audio tools to > trim tracks> , set fades, crossfade between songs and record voiceovers. Blend music and video with precision using volume control points.

http://www.photodex.com/proshow/gold
(emphasis mine)

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Thanks, Steve.

For whatever reason, I have not been able to sync the music in Photodex, so I am doing it in Audacity.

I’ve downloaded music into a Music Folder on my computer, then loading it to Audacity. On a couple of YouTube music files, I am getting an FFmpeg error message. Familiar with it?

"FFmpeg Error: “To use Ffmpeg import, go to Preferences>Libraries to download or locate the Ffmpeg libraries.” I went to the Preferences>Libraries [here:http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/libraries_preferences.html] but do not know which one to select.

This error message comes with the first one:
Error Importing:
“C:Users. . .DownloadsMusicOde to Joy.mp4” is an Advanced Audio Coding File.
Audacity cannot open this type of file.
You need to convert it to a supported audio format, such as WAV or AIFF.

Any help you can offer on this would be great. Thanks.

Mike

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Try these instructions: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_installation_and_plug_ins.html#installffmpeg