Audacity Forum

Hi
I'm a podcaster using Mac El Capitan
Rode NT USB mic

I have an Episode interview where I need to remove MULTIPLE issues.
I know how to edit and delete and I do know then when I take something OUT it now makes the track shorter...

My interviewee has give me an email asking for issues to be removed/edited in various locations:
QUOTE
18:40 I said "Mercury and Moon" when I was thinking of "Mercury and Venus". A big error. The best would be to swap the sound "Moon" for "Venus" from few sentences later. Or something else? We continue on talking as I have been talking about Mercury and venus all along.

around minute 22' my throat was so dry I couldn't speak.. Maybe you can cut something or mute and speed up.

27:00 - 27:24 can be cut out

35:17 might cut out a short moment wasted on finding the 2nd picture to open, if I'm being picky
UNQUOTE

Now I know how to do all of this, HOWEVER when I've removed the first issue, the next one won't be at the same location coz I will have made the whole Episode shorter.

Is there a way to make multiple edits at different locations without losing my place?

Is there a way to highlight them all and remove them at once?

Coz by the time I get to the last one my track will have reduced in timing by quite a few minutes so those times he has highlighted won't be in the same locations!

Thank you for reading this and I hope you can help:)
In Peace
Mary xx

won't be in the same locations!

The only way I know of to do this is always perform the corrections left-to-right, so the timeline to the left of an edit is clean and will never move and only the corrections to the right will cause the end of the show to wander.

I can think of one other possible fix. Break the show up into short chunks each on its own timeline top to bottom. Use the time shift tool to move the major chunks around. That lets you correct each chunk individually and then smooch the corrected chunk over so it lines up with everything else.

For example, say you had to make a timing change to chunk one. That would cause all the other chunks to be out of time or leave a hole.


Shift-Select chunks two, three, and four and time shift them as one back into position.


The Time Shift Tool is the two sideways black arrows. Don't forget to change the cursor back into the normal I-Beam tool for further editing. DO NOT make corrections to the main show. Do it to a copy. Save the original as WAV files or Audacity Lossless Projects on their own thumb drive.

If your computer caught fire right now, where is your show?

Koz

Thanks Koz,
That's one way to do it...
I was thinking maybe to keep the original Episode on another window and keep checking that as a sort of master copy...to be able to find the errors and not lose my place...then do what you suggest.
My worry is I'll lose my place and not be able to find the segments he's talking about.
Maybe I shouldn't be so lazy !

Mary xx

Read that post again. I changed the ending.

(Poor forum skills)

Koz

I knew I wasn't going to be a world-class editor when I watched a "real" editor cut an hour long video show and keep everything in her head during the whole thing.

Koz

I'll lose my place and not be able to find the segments he's talking about.

If you don't push everything back into position until later, that means the times listed on the bottom of the timeline will remain constant as you go.

27:00 - 27:24 can be cut out.

So a correction at those times will stay at those times until you condense the show down to its new time. Yes, you do have to be able to listen to all the disjointed chunks and imagine what they're going to sound like as one continuous track, but that's why you're getting the big bucks. There's no downside to shifting the times back and forth other than wasted editing time and losing the real-time reference.

Audacity will smash everything into one continuous track when you export. In addition, if you want to keep the show as stacked tracks for editing later, that's when you Save a Lossless Project.

Koz

If you don't push everything back into position until later, that means the times listed on the bottom of the timeline will remain constant as you go.

Yes
Good points,
thank you for your help!
Mary