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UlfLaursen
UlfLaursen
Inspiring
May 9, 2019
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Inserting Silence as a favorite

  • May 9, 2019
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Hallo

I have a problem. I have recorded a favourite, that should insert a silent part of x seconds, and assigned it to a keyboard shortcut.

I want the silence to be inserted at the current position of my play head, but it always goes to the place, where I at the recording of the favourite had inserted the silence when I run it. How can I achieve this.

Thanks.

/Ulf

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    Correct answer ryclark

    Thanks, but it does not work here.

    /Ulf


    After a bit more experimentation unfortunately as you have discovered it doesn't work as one would have hoped. The problem appears to be that the Relative function doesn't work properly when you just position the Playhead where you want to insert the silence. Audion's Favorite just adds it to the front of the audio. However, although not very convenient, there is a work around. If you select a small amount of audio at the point where you want to insert the silence it does work. So Relative is relative to a selection not, I'm afraid, to the Play cursor position. You don't have to select much audio for it to work, a single sample will do.

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    ryclark
    ryclark
    Participating Frequently
    May 9, 2019

    You basically need to change the Absolute From Start to Relative from the drop down menu for each action. By default Favorite Recording always uses the Absolute From Start setting.

    UlfLaursen
    UlfLaursenAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 10, 2019

    Well I am sorry to say, but it did not work either. I tried to record the favourite at the start of the clip, but then it just adds the silence to the very start very time, no matter if I chose "relative" or not.

    Anybody have other suggestions?

    Thanks

    Ulf

    UlfLaursen
    UlfLaursenAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 10, 2019

    It can be made to work but it is not straight forward since how Favorite recording and editing works has never been fully documented. One thing to try which may make it work, but isn't exactly intuitive, is to select the whole of your file when recording the new Favorite ie. don't just select the bit you would want to work on if you were actually trying to do the favorite action manually.

    If I get time over the weekend I will try and work out how to do it if you don't have any luck with your experiments.


    Thanks, but it does not work here.

    /Ulf

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