that was it!!! :) so use to other editors which use the "selected" rather than outside the area of the selection. So, now, how do I get this to work in GW? If I put both the beginning and end markers at the beginning of the file?
-- Curtis Delzer <[email protected]> On Sat, 16 May 2015 18:33:11 -0400 tim cumings <[email protected]> wrote: > curtis I think trimming silence is used for trimming outside the start and > finish markesrs. If the entire file is selected there is no silence to trim. > > > On 5/15/2015 4:56 PM, Curtis Delzer wrote: > > I open a file which is about 12 hours long, made from several cassettes > > where there are silences I want to trim, and GW says that all is > > selected in the control-E menu from beginning to end, when I set the > > silence to "keep 8 seconds" and do both, with a db value of minus 36 DB > > which is above the amount of the noise of the cassettes, nothing is done > > when > > I hit ok. > > I've used the "select all" from within the edit menu, (select all seems > > to be grayed out since I guess all is selected by default when I open > > the file?) so how do I proceed since it is not doing the operation. > > THANKS! (as a good friend says, "all over the place!" > > ----- > > Curtis Delzer, HS. > > K6VFO > > San Bernardino, CA > > > > >
