Hi,

Make sure cursor tracking is off and make sure the zoom popup menu is set to a 
smaller increment than the size of the file.

Robert Carter


On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:55 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hi:
> Down arrow left or right arrow just beeps. Same with shift arrows to try and 
> select.
> On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:57 PM, ROBERT CARTER <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, Down arrow will take you to the end of the file. If, however, you try to 
>> play it at that point, it will start at the beginning since you are at the 
>> end. If, however, you press down arrow and then press left arrow a few 
>> times, you will be back just a little ways from the end of the file. How far 
>> back you go with the left arrow is dependent on where you have the zoom menu 
>> set.
>> 
>> Robert Carter
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 31, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Lisette Wesseling <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi
>>> I agree that sound studio is very easy to use. Robert helped me a lot when 
>>> I started and what he said in his email works for me too.
>>> The only thing I haven't been able to do is move to the end of a file 
>>> without listening to it all the way through or fast forwarding. 
>>> But I do like the programme and use it when I need to do small amounts of 
>>> audio editing.
>>> 
>>> Lisette
>>> 
>>> On 1/04/2013, at 12:17 AM, ROBERT CARTER <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> In my experience with Sound Studio, holding down the 1 and 2 keys will 
>>>> rewind and fast forward continuously through a file. Marks are set with 
>>>> the m key. Option plus left and right arrow jump from mark to mark. adding 
>>>> shift to option left and right arrow selects the audio that is in between 
>>>> two marks. The spacebar will playback the selection The selected audio can 
>>>> be copied to the clipboard with command+c and pasted somewhere else with 
>>>> command+v. The entire file can be selected with command+a.
>>>> 
>>>> Another way to select audio is using the shift+right arrow. Shift+left 
>>>> arrow unselects or reduces the amount of audio that is selected. The 
>>>> amount of audio that is selected when shift+right arrow is used is set by 
>>>> a popup menu that is next to the toolbar. It is called the "Zoom level 
>>>> Menu." At its default value, the left and right arrows move quite a ways 
>>>> through a file. I use the left and right arrows for to move by very small 
>>>> amounts when editing a podcast. I typically set the zoom level to 4096. 
>>>> With this menu, you press vo+space to open the menu and down arrow to 
>>>> locate the desired option. Press return to set the desired value.
>>>> 
>>>> Cursor tracking does need to be off when editing. You may want to turn it 
>>>> on when working with menu items excluding the zoom level popup.
>>>> 
>>>> Robert Carter
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 30, 2013, at 10:07 PM, John Sanfilippo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Sarai,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've had some success with Sound Studio using the following method:
>>>>> 
>>>>> command p to play.
>>>>> near the place to start editing, press comma to pause the recording, 
>>>>> comma to resume again.
>>>>> 
>>>>> While playing, the 1 key rewinds, the 2 key fast forwards, but only by 
>>>>> one second.
>>>>> 
>>>>> At the spot you want to mark, press m. I usually press comma first, then 
>>>>> press m. I'm not always certain that my mark is set on the fly, but you 
>>>>> may have better luck.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Set another marker further on using the  procedures outlined above.
>>>>> 
>>>>> To select with assurance, press command shift g., and follow the dialog. 
>>>>> Set the start time to marker 1, the end time to marker 2. Be sure to 
>>>>> press enter to close the dialog.
>>>>> 
>>>>> At this point you can press delete to remove what is selected. Or you can 
>>>>> press command option s to save what is selected as another file name.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or, you could play the file, press m while playing to set mark1, m again 
>>>>> later to set mark2, and so on for several markers. Then in the edit menu 
>>>>> use split file by markers, I'm not sure of the exact name of this feature.
>>>>> 
>>>>> There is a manual which explains this perhaps more clearly.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You can move from mark to mark with command left or right arrow, and you 
>>>>> can select between markers by adding shift the these commands.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You can go to specific times by pressing command g and entering a number 
>>>>> of seconds, or minutes:seconds, that is, minutes, colon, seconds, such as 
>>>>> 10:15, or by selecting a marker to go to in the go to dialog.
>>>>> 
>>>>> But I will caution that all this is possible only as long as sound studio 
>>>>> and or the OS are cooperating and you are in the correct mode. Something 
>>>>> misterious can happen whereby, for some reason which I cannot identify, 
>>>>> pressing ordinary commands simply does not work. For instance pressing 
>>>>> left or right arrow to move the playback pointer gets nothing more than a 
>>>>> bonk sound from the system as though this key press is unknown. The only 
>>>>> thing I know to do to fix this is save my work, if, indeed I feel it is 
>>>>> safe to, and reopen sound studio.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>> John S
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: Sarai Bucciarelli 
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 10:07 PM
>>>>> Subject: Sound studio editing tracks
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi:
>>>>> I purchased Sound Studio. I cannot figure out how to edit audio files. I 
>>>>> tried turning off vo cursor tracking and shift down arrow to select 
>>>>> segments of tracks. They will not select so I can delete them. Any ideas?
>>>>> 
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