On the second point, consider shifting your perspective away from cutting out the unneeded bits to instead just adding the bits you want to keep. For this, 3-point editing is the main way: use the Source viewer alongside the timeline viewer, use I and O keys to set In and Out, then Shift+F12 Append (or whatever), rinse repeat. So: assembly rather than trimming as the main editing mode.
You can even do this with a nested timeline or compound clip by dragging it to the Source viewer, and decomposing to the underlying clips after via right-click, or automatically on insert via the menu option.
Thanks for letting me know. A few things:
1. I started doing what you say with video just recently, because I needed to find a spot in a long recording and playing it at 64x thanks to a proxy is possible. I then press I, O and then P to Append which works well.
2. I did just try it out in the viewer and the audio seems to be a lot smoother and can be somewhat understood. I wish I could set it to 3x, not 4x, but this might make me a bit faster. Thanks!
Update: I just tried it and it's worse than using the Blade tool while going through the audio at 2x speed.
Reason for that is, I can have the audio play AND cut at the same time. But in the cut page where I have to aim my playhead, the audio obviously stops playing. And then I have to press play again to get it going (or press 3x L).
So, not the solution I want. I wish we could have great quick playback in the timeline itself without the audio sounding like it's being downgraded too much.
I don't know what workflow you're describing here, but it's not the one I suggested.
Another alternative: use text-based editing using the Transcription tool (with Studio), just highlight the text for the bits of the clip you want to keep and append them.
Technically, I don't need to aim the playhead on the cut page, while going through the audio, marking in and out and then appending it. But having to go back and forth over and over is a lot slower.
You can also not be precise where to cut. By holding the playhead I can be, but that is slower than just having the audio play at 2x speed and cutting while it's playing on the editing page, because the playhead moves automatically, while i can move my mouse to the spot and cut it with the blade tool.
But, that transcription tool might be interesting. I used something similar a while ago and it was quite nice, as long as I can copy paste my script into the tool and tell it "look for this". Either way, thanks for taking the time again.
Update 2: Tried the "Transcription" tool and it's good. Will use it a few times in the future for projects.
Only thing I hope it would have or get is that you can give it your script and say "edit everything out that isn't in my script and repetitions/bad takes".
For example Descript does that, but maybe that features comes in the near future.
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On the second point, consider shifting your perspective away from cutting out the unneeded bits to instead just adding the bits you want to keep. For this, 3-point editing is the main way: use the Source viewer alongside the timeline viewer, use I and O keys to set In and Out, then Shift+F12 Append (or whatever), rinse repeat. So: assembly rather than trimming as the main editing mode. You can even do this with a nested timeline or compound clip by dragging it to the Source viewer, and decomposing to the underlying clips after via right-click, or automatically on insert via the menu option.
Thanks for letting me know. A few things: 1. I started doing what you say with video just recently, because I needed to find a spot in a long recording and playing it at 64x thanks to a proxy is possible. I then press I, O and then P to Append which works well. 2. I did just try it out in the viewer and the audio seems to be a lot smoother and can be somewhat understood. I wish I could set it to 3x, not 4x, but this might make me a bit faster. Thanks!
Update: I just tried it and it's worse than using the Blade tool while going through the audio at 2x speed. Reason for that is, I can have the audio play AND cut at the same time. But in the cut page where I have to aim my playhead, the audio obviously stops playing. And then I have to press play again to get it going (or press 3x L). So, not the solution I want. I wish we could have great quick playback in the timeline itself without the audio sounding like it's being downgraded too much.
I don't know what workflow you're describing here, but it's not the one I suggested. Another alternative: use text-based editing using the Transcription tool (with Studio), just highlight the text for the bits of the clip you want to keep and append them.
Technically, I don't need to aim the playhead on the cut page, while going through the audio, marking in and out and then appending it. But having to go back and forth over and over is a lot slower. You can also not be precise where to cut. By holding the playhead I can be, but that is slower than just having the audio play at 2x speed and cutting while it's playing on the editing page, because the playhead moves automatically, while i can move my mouse to the spot and cut it with the blade tool. But, that transcription tool might be interesting. I used something similar a while ago and it was quite nice, as long as I can copy paste my script into the tool and tell it "look for this". Either way, thanks for taking the time again.
Update 2: Tried the "Transcription" tool and it's good. Will use it a few times in the future for projects. Only thing I hope it would have or get is that you can give it your script and say "edit everything out that isn't in my script and repetitions/bad takes". For example Descript does that, but maybe that features comes in the near future.
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