extend or clone parts of a waveform to close a gap

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
June 21, 2017
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Hi everyone,

I have a small gap in my wave form and need to close it up. I could delete it but this kind of interupts the sound. Instead, is there a way to sort of extend or clone the left bit and then do the same to the right bit so that they join and then hopefully the track will sound right?

Appreciate any help.

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SuiteSpot

Inspiring

I've just emailed you the result of my studio partner's (Ron) effort in fixing your issue - I think you should be suitably impressed.

Let me know how you go

Bob Howes

Inspiring

For benefit of others reading this, if you just need an exact duration of music and it doesn't HAVE to be that last clip (i.e it's not a big finish you need or something) another possible solution would be to take just the longer clip and use Audition's "Remix" function set to give you exactly the length you need.

I've had very good luck using Remix to auto edit things when I need an exact length. Tutorial here: How To Use Remix in Adobe Audition CC 2015 - YouTube

SuiteSpot

Inspiring

Remix is an excellent and valuable tool however, in this instance it wouldn't have helped at all. The issue in this instance could only be rectified by some micro-surgery editing and a great pair of ears ;-)

I am usually difficult to impress but my mate Ron has literally turned water into wine with this one ;-)

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

Even if you can find a way of doing it, this tends not to work particularly well, as it's very difficult to determine exactly what the rate of change of the missing waveform should be, or even its content. And that makes a difference, as this is where the harmonic information comes from. If that's not continuous, then you'll hear the jump anyway.

Exactly how long is this gap? And is there anything else even vaguely similar on the track? What generally works much better is to fill the gap with material that at least matches the background, even if you can't get it exactly right - IOW find something and do a mix-paste.

J

JKA@4153Author

Inspiring

Thanks for the reply,

The gap's only about a second or less and the two sections below together which is why I wanted to clone the two ends. I opened the first clip up and then pasted the second clip at the end of the first. I know that belong together because they were audio clips from Premier but there's just a bit of a jump because the audio was from two separate files. I just didn't know if there was a way to sort of select each end and just pull them together.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

Community Expert

A second is a pretty big gap from this point of view - you could only ever fill that; no amount of playing about with it would help in the slightest. If the audio makes sense as it's cut together, then what you need is a bit of room tone in the gap, by the sound of it.

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