I was recently reviewing a small recording we made with a band I’m part of, and an annoying part is creating and aligning ranges out of the raw recording file.
My current workflow is:
Cut the region, possibly discard some moments between tracks and move the cut regions so that the line up neatly one after the others.
With snap enabled, go to the start of each cut, zoom and hover carefully and hit “M” to create a location marker under the mouse location
For each location marker, right click on it and click “create range to next marker”
I’m wondering if there’s an easier way? Possible features I would be looking for are:
A keyboard shortcut to realign a cut just at the end of the last one
A shortcut to create location markers at the playhead location instead
A way to automatically create ranges between all markers and not just one by one?
A way to automatically create ranges for each cut region?
I browsed through the manual and the menus and I’m not sure if those exist at all, maybe I missed something. What is your current workflow for doing this kind of thing?
Sounds like using the ‘J’ and ‘K’ shortcuts to trim the region combined with Ripple mode?
Yes, can’t remember the default off hand, used to be the enter that was part of the number pad, might be tab now, not sure, but there is one.
Not sure on this one, might be a case for a basic Lua script
Yes, I Believe this is in the context menu for the region, but again it has been a bit, but the command is something like ‘Create multiple ranges for each region’. Used to use this one a lot when editing live services for churches for podcast as it let me export songs, etc. all at once.
What is the high level goal you’re trying to accomplish?
Essentially get those simple edits done faster.
If I understand correctly, then enabling Ripple mode should do this
Sounds like using the ‘J’ and ‘K’ shortcuts to trim the region combined with Ripple mode?
Thanks, these are exactly what I was looking for, sorry if that was an obvious question!
You can assign a shortcut key to add a marker. Window >> Keyboard Shortcuts
If that is the one that is bound to the “M” key by default, that one appears under the mouse position, not the playhead, and I haven’t found a way around that.
However that actually made me find the “Add Range Markers To Region” which is exactly what I was looking for for my 4th question!
Ah, thanks, I missed that the edit point was configurable.
The location markers were probably the wrong tool for the job - I used them to mean “here is the moment where we switch to a different part of the recording” and later converted them to ranges. I think with the answers from this thread I will avoid them entirely, I should have used ranges from the start.
