Thank you Slau. That definitely really helps. So, here's a question. Let's say that I'm on bar 2 beat 1, and wanna go to bar 4 beat 3, and select all that audio. Do I have to do that with the slash key, or could I technically line up my cursor on bar 2 beat 1, then with the star key, along with the shift key dial in to bar 4 beat 3, then have it select. I'd think no, I'd actually want to do slash slash, 2, period 3. Right?
Chris. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Slau Halatyn Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: I really need some encouragement. Importance: High Num Pad asterisk enables the main counter field. Typing a value and pressing Enter or return simply puts the insertion/playback cursor in the location you've entered. Num pad slash, when tapped the first time, enables the Start field. Subsequent taps cycle through to the End field and then the Length field. The procedure for selecting from one minute and 30 seconds to 2 minutes and forty-five seconds would be: 1. Num pad slash. 2. Type 1, decimal, 30. 3. Num pad slash again to move to the End field. 4. Type 2, decimal, 45 and press Enter. If you want to get more precise, a second tap of the decimal key gets you to the milliseconds field. On Nov 10, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland <[email protected]> wrote: > OK yall, I feel really stupid right now. I need a refresher on a couple of things. What does numpad slash do, and what is numpad star? I know one of them is a go to command to jump basically to a particular bar/beat, or hour/ninute/second, depending on how you have it set in your edit window, and I know the other one is for selecting a range of data. I just don't remember which is which. I confess that the way I've been editting is just with command or option+shift+numpad 1, 2, plus, or minus, and adjusting the nudge value to get the selection I need. Yes, I know about my mark in and out with the down arrow, and up arrow, although I'm finding that unless the edit doesn't have to be very tight, which is quite rare, it really doesn't help me much. I'm asking about the star and slash keys as I'd really like to try starting to use them more. Here's the situation more specifically. I'm finding the learning curve of editting from Sound Forge on Windows to editting this way in ProTools to be very very steep. Don't get me wrong. I totally get the concept of how to do this, and without Chuck, Kevin, and Brian Howerton helping along the way, especially the last two, thank you all so so so so much by the way, there is no way in heck! I could have come this far! Period! It just wouldn't have happened! I can't tell you all how much you mean to me both professionally, as well as friendship speaking. You all're very very slowly but surely making my recording dreams come true. The bottom line though is, coming from Sound Forge now to this, is just driving me nuts! Yeah, I know, I need to basically probably just forget everything I learned as far as Soundforge goes. It sounds to me like Sound Forge is kind of a poor man's cheat. By that I mean, you edit pretty much exactly like you'd edit a text based Microsoft Word file. Shift+arrow keys, page up and down, home and end, ctrl+C to copy, ctrl+x to cut, ctrl+V to paste, left and right arrows to move through or back in the file. etc. It seems like every other daw I have used, be it Sonar, be it Goldwave, be it Cakewalk Pro Audio way back in its days, be it Audasity, be it Adobe Audition, be it Amadeus Pro, Garageband, whatever. all those seem to rely more on set your nudge value, set your zoom aspect ratio if needed, set an in and out marker, move your selection around, etc. I dono, I'm probably rambling, so I'll stop. The point being, those of you that converted from Sound Forge in windows when it comes to editting, and I mean people specifically that for editting purpose using SF in Windows. I'd like to hear from some of you who've come from there and now on PT have gotten very proficient at editting in ProTools. I'd like to get you all maybe, if you don't mind to bounce some ideas to me that may help with my transition. For example, I had a podcast the other day that was sent to me for editting. I brought it up in ProTools. I thought, you know? What the heck! I could do this in SoundForge, and get this thing so darn polished and so tight, you'd never even know it was editted to start with. That is literally, not to brag purposely, how good I've gotten at editting in SF. I literally have taken someone's voice on a recording phoneme by phoneme, phone by phone, and literally got them to say: Chris is a GD effing idiot! When I played it for the lady who's voice I used, she busted a gut for about 5 minutes straight dying of laughter. It was a freaking riot! I just thought this time, I'd at least try. My thought was, OK, look. If I can't do it, I can't do it. But, I'll never know if I don't at least try. No pain, no gain, ey? So on I went. Well, it proved disastrous. No matter what I did, I could not line up my selections accurately enough. I know it's possible to do, but I just became so damn frustrated, that I gave up. I finally just went back to old habbits, by going into Soundforge on my windows desktop machine, and bangged out the edit in just over an hour. To this day, I hate myself for doing that! How am I ever gonna learn, if I don't quit doing that! Exactly! I won't! This transition however is just seeming to be too overwhelming. I wonder aside the obvious of Chris, just take some deep breaths. Relax. You're gonna get it eventually, I promise, what else maybe I could do that may help me a bit with this. Like I said, I get the concept, but actually then doing it is something else apparently, altogether. I feel like I'm not progressing at the level of my expectations, and that really hurts me deeply. I really am trying, but it's just, not, happening. > > Do you all have any thoughts aside, Well Chris, now that I've read your novel sized sob sogga, looket, I don't need that right now, OK? Just help me, don't slander me with such crewel words. I wrote because I need help, not because I need to be ciber slapped in the face. > > Chris. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
