Hi All, complements of the season to everyone…
It has been a very long time since I last needed to use Audacity, and what I remembered and what I experienced is not the same, the software has taken a development path a long way to not being functional…
1: I would have thought that it would have been somewhat of a standard now across the NLE industry, that I key-In point, O-Out point, B-blade=split the track at this point, delete, delete any highlighted clips…
2: The 4 cursor keys would have some function, <-move 1 sample left, > move 1 sample right, and not at 1 sample per second which makes the app non functional… The Cursor up and down, adjust the volume up and down, would have assumed this as a standard as that is how it works on other apps…
Audacity used to be a fast, reliable, competent app, now it is not sure, you see as a tv news video editor, I am looking for a lightweight easy to use video editing app, and Lumafusion on Android/IOS is that, but it is not, it has a major flaw, that is there is no way to zoom in on wave forms, you are stuck due to AVFOUNDATION to a zoom level of 1 frame width, there is no way to resolve an audio waverform closer than 1/60th of a video frame, for tv news editing, this is impossible to edit with this level…
I have a brand new M1 Macbook Air, 8GB RAM, so what I was hoping, with using Audacity, is that I “cut” the interviews and voice overs in Audacity, create a bunch of split clips, and import the split clips as a series of single clips, Project 1_1.wav, Project 1_2.wav, or Project 1_1.mov, Project 1_2.mov etc With the .wav being the voice over edited so that the mistakes are taken out, as a series of split clips, and the .mov, interviews split and imported into Lumafusion…
But no, Audacity does not one, sure it splits, but the moving the vertical thin black line marker thing, at 1 sample per second on a 64bit brand new machine… Not a great solution, how did this happen? What went wrong?
To me the biggest failure of Audacity is that once you start zooming in to the waveform, you loose all sense of location within the wave-form, there is no fixed full timeline view with a timeline indicator as to where you are on the time-line, and it gets so confusing what scale you have zoomed into…The vertical thin black line with the finger icon, no idea what or how to control this, and it moves so slowly, when you are trying to highlight something, it crawls at 1 pixel per second, per real time second across the screen…
Can we maybe add some sort of “shift+” turbo button, to go from 1 pixel per real life second, to 1 pixel every 1/10th of a real time second, 10times more ground covered in a real life second of time… a bit more hare, less dead whale…