Non-contiguous Select

[steve]

Thanks, I understand what you mean. I was just a bit unclear what exactly you were doing in steps 4 and 5.

At least that's what I think happened.

Yes you are correct, that is what is happening


A couple of points that may help:

You don't need to manually create the empty tracks. If there are no tracks selected when you paste, new tracks will be created automatically as required.
To toggle the selection of the "current track" on/off, press the Enter key.
The "current track" is the track that "has focus". This is indicated by a yellow border around the track. You can change which track has focus using the up/down cursor keys.

Using your example:
1) Imported 4 stereo tracks into a project.
(it's not necessary to sync-lock then for this)
2) Add labels. (the label track is below the audio tracks)
3) Click on the panel at the left end of the label track so that the entire label track is selected (and no other tracks).
4) Edit > Labelled audio > Split cut (cuts audio from the labelled sections in all audio tracks above the label track (*1)
(so far this is the same as you did before)
5) Click on the panel at the left end of the label track so that the entire label track is selected (and no other tracks).
6) Press Enter (toggles the selection so that now there are no tracks selected.
7) Edit menu > Paste (Ctrl+V)
Four new tracks are created below the label track to accommodate the copied audio. (*2).

Notes:
*1) By default, "Edit > Labelled audio > Split cut" will cut from all tracks that are above the label track.
If you only want to cut from some of the audio tracks, use the up/down cursor keys to focus on each track at a time, and use the Enter key to toggle the selection on/off for that track. The audio will be cut from the selected tracks only, or all tracks above the label track if no tracks are selected.

*2) When the audio is pasted, by default it will be pasted so that the start of the audio is at "time = 0.0".
If the first labelled section starts at time=0.0, then it will work as you want it with no additional action.
If the first labelled section starts at a later time position, then the pasted audio will be offset from the original tracks.
To re-align the new pasted tracks with the original tracks, they need to be aligned so that they start from the beginning of the first label. To do this:

• Immediately after pasting, the new tracks will all be selected. (if not, click and drag across the new tracks so that there is a selection in all of the new tracks).
• Click in the text area of the first label. This will move the selection so that the labelled region is now selected in all of the new tracks.
• "Tracks menu > Align Tracks > Align with Selection Start".

[dgpretzel]

Thank you, once again, for your helpful, and most comprehensive reply.

Just what the doctor ordered.

DG