I like it a lot (the scrub), thanks for that hint. My only problem with
goldwave is the screen reader (window-eyes) stops talking for several
seconds or longer -- it has something o do with the framerate if I set
it to 20, things improve.
Colin Howard <co...@pobox.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> You don't change the wind forward or back values if you want to jump back or
> forward 5 seconds, in case you are not aware of their location, press f11
> and in the play tab which is where you land, tab can't remember how many but
> certainly more than six, you should see a rewind which I think by default is
> set at 2 the forward wind is set as 1 - meaning by pressing f5 or j, you
> rewind at twice playing speed, by pressing f6 or l, you wind forward at
> playing speed. Of course, these values are edit boxes and you can change
> them, I have mine set to 5, the maximum.
>
> To change how much the arrows / markers move, you need change the zoom rate.
> By default on opening the file, the whole is on the screen - least I believe
> this to be true though how a file of, say, seven hours can be shown I cannot
> guess.
>
> I've opened a file of 25 minutes, my view is one minutes' worth of file, by
> moving my start marker once it starting at 0.000, it now shows 0.600, again,
> shows 1.200, then 1.800 . . . the end marker moves back the same ratio.
>
> I change the zoom rate to show ten seconds, the markers move correspondingly
> less, starting at 0.000 one move with shift and right arrow the start now
> shows 0.100, then 0.200 . . . the arrow keys move the cursor back/forward in
> tenths of the zoom rate, I strongly suggest you envoke the scrub facility,
> about which I wrote at some length a few days ago - this is an edit box to
> the right of the two wind values and by default is set at 0.000 I have mine
> set at 0.150 which gives me enough sound for each movement of arrow / marker
> to aid with both finding my place and editting.
>
> I note nobody in their replies have mentioned this incredibly useful
> function, I cannot understand why it is not set on by default with, say
> 0.200 but it isn't. I played with values for a long time until I settled on
> 0.150 as being my favoured setting.
>
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