Trying To Edit Clips Taken from a Larger File??!!!

Audacity Help Forum Windows
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Hi there- I’ve run into a rather unique (read: frustrating) problem with editing a 2-minute music clip. It was taken from a MUCH larger recording my band made one night, of over 4 GB (about 2 hours in length). WAV format.

I can isolate (clip out) songs from the session into their own respective files, but because they’re so compressed (not sure that’s the term that applies to the problem, exactly) I can’t apply fade in/out, nor access smaller parts of the song to edit out. The graphic shows the clip as being about an inch wide, and I simply can’t align the cursors with any accuracy to accomplish what I want to do.

Is there a way to expand the file, so I can have a wider visual template to allow more accurate editing?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

Version 2.10

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The Zoom tools might be handy. I use three.

Control-F Zoom Full. fill the screen with your current show.
Control-E Drag-select some portion of the show and zoom into it.
Control-3 Zoom out a little bit.

There are many more.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/zooming.html

It’s also handy for me to stop the screen from Auto Scrolling.

Audacity > Edit > Preferences > Tracks > [_]Update… (de-select)

You probably want to turn that back on for recording.

Koz

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As an alternative to zooming you can enter the times of selections or the editing cursor in Selection Toolbar.

Hopefully you meant 2.1.0 with the extra dot. :wink:

Gale

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2.10 is a bogus version of Audacity. You can get The Real Thing from here.

http://web.audacityteam.org/download/

Koz