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kathyn
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January 5, 2007
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audio editing - scrub

  • January 5, 2007
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I'm working with the Audio>Edit feature in Captivate 2.0. It's generally effective but I am missing the ability to "scrub" - hearing audio as the payback head is dragged back and forth. The lack of scrub is making it difficult for me to locate very tight edit points accurately. Is there some setting that I'm missing that enables a scrub?

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Correct answer Captiv8r
Hi kathyn

No, not that I'm aware of are you missing anything resembling a scrub. I'm guessing you are already familiar with the editor dialog, but just in case. If you click the Play button (or Spacebar) either action is actually a toggle. So you click Play and click the same button again to Pause. This should give you fairly close control over those tight points. Once you pause, note that you are able to reposition the playhead using the left and right arrow keys for a more precise placement. In conjunction with this, if the area is really tight, I'd also zoom in quite a bit so the points are more obvious in the waveform.

Cheers... Rick

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Timbre4
Inspiring
January 17, 2007
Must be that imagination thing. [gentle poke]

I work with audio all day and don't need a scrub function; learn the window and scales, drop markers or something.

If it's a 5 min file, that's not a lot to comb through; if it's an hour file, you probably know where to drop the needle and get to work IMHO......
CatBandit
CatBandit
Inspiring
January 9, 2007
LOL! Forget everything I said above.
It was excellent advice if someone had asked the appropriate question - but was entirely beside the point for kathyn's problem. Dumb Larry, dumb Larry.
LOL!
CatBandit
CatBandit
Inspiring
January 9, 2007
And to supplement what Rick pointed out so eloquently, if the Playhead is hidden, you can make it visible easily enough.

Just click anywhere on the "seconds" part of the timeline to make the Playhead jump from its default position at "0" seconds (hidden to the left of the timeline) out to the poiint on the timeline where you clicked. You can then "grab" the playhead better for your right-left-right-left "scrubbing" action.

HTH
Captiv8r
Captiv8rCorrect answer
Legend
January 5, 2007
Hi kathyn

No, not that I'm aware of are you missing anything resembling a scrub. I'm guessing you are already familiar with the editor dialog, but just in case. If you click the Play button (or Spacebar) either action is actually a toggle. So you click Play and click the same button again to Pause. This should give you fairly close control over those tight points. Once you pause, note that you are able to reposition the playhead using the left and right arrow keys for a more precise placement. In conjunction with this, if the area is really tight, I'd also zoom in quite a bit so the points are more obvious in the waveform.

Cheers... Rick
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