Save a time selection as a favourite

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Hi all,Is there a way to create a keyboard shortcut that creates a pre-defined time selection on the waveform editor at the cursor/playhead? (rather than relative to start/end of file or an actual time stamped location) I use Audition to edit voice over files. (I started when it was Cool Edit Pro) I import the 'raw' file which may be up to an hour long of the talent reading the script. This then needs to be edited into prompts with each promt being saved as a seperate file. I add a fade in of 0.01 seconds at the start of each prompt and a fade out of 0.325 seconds at the end of each prompt. I used to have these selections (0.01 seconds & 0.325 seconds) saved as a favourite so I could apply them from where my cursor/playhead is placed using a custom keyboard shortcut. This is a critical shortcut when you are editing up to hundreds of files a day. Without this function Audition is of no use to anyone editing large numbers of files requiring top and tailing.Any help with this would be greatly appreciated...Cheers

SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Answer

I wish I could give you some better news about this, but I can't. The numbskull who invented the current Favorites system clearly had no experience of what editors need to do in the real world. You would have thought that the basic idea of being able to create a small sequence of anything at the cursor point would have been a fundamental requirement of a Favorites system, but if there's a way of doing this then I certainly haven't discovered it. Whoever thought that 'relative' and only being able to set percentage points which would be different for every single file was even vaguely useful as a concept needs their heads examining. Yes I have complained in the right place about this in the past, and no, nothing's come of it. I suspect that the reason for this is that I'm not a big-ticket user with a million seats, or whatever - or maybe not; it may just not be possible to do it with this system (but I don't see why not). The only practical suggestion I can make is that if you have it available, use Audition 3 with its original scripting system. That wasn't brilliant either (zero documentation), but it would at least let you do things like this. I haven't mentioned the dire Favorites issues to the devs for a while. I might give it another go - you never know...

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