listening the audio frame by frame

mitteg wrote on 8/12/2002, 3:07 PM
Hello,

How can I play an event slowly an hear the audio at the same time. I'm editing an interview and I need to know when a speaker finishes speaking. Sometimes I need to know when he or she finishes a sentence and the wave form does not help me enough.

Sorry for my poor english. I'm Spanish actually ;-)

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Shredder wrote on 8/12/2002, 3:33 PM
Mitteq,

I don't think this is possible, but you can scale the audio waveform's height to dramatically exaggerate the peaks/valleys (they volume is not changed), by clicking on the timeline, and then holding down SHIFT while holding down the up arrow (& down reduces it again).

That should zoom in enough that even the slightest sound will look like a spike on the timeline.

Hopefully that helps,

Jon
Summersond wrote on 8/12/2002, 3:43 PM
Also, slowing down the playback speed with the slider on the left side of the timeline will also help.

dave
HeeHee wrote on 8/12/2002, 4:14 PM
You can also lengthen the view of the events by shrinking the size of the slider. Then you will be able to see shorter pauses in the audio.
Cheesehole wrote on 8/12/2002, 6:40 PM
SHIFT+F11 is good for that too. also increase the vertical height of the audio track itself by dragging the bottom edge downward in the track header.

use all these methods and there should be no doubt when the sentence ends. :D
pb wrote on 8/12/2002, 11:43 PM
I use Sound Forge -- doesn't vv3 come with the lite version of SF6? At my day job we use Sound Forge and Vegas Audio 2 for all sound editing on our AVID Media Composer 1000 -- far superior to Pro Tools!
ianvegas wrote on 8/13/2002, 2:09 AM
Hi,
if you look up 'scrubbing' in the program's helpfile, it will show you how to do exactly what you're trying to.
mitteg wrote on 8/13/2002, 1:52 PM
Thanks !

It's that simple:

"""Hover over the cursor in an area of the timeline that does not contain an event and press Ctrl. The mouse pointer is displayed as a loudspeaker"""

Drag left or right to scrub playback.

Thanks for your help.

Robert.
SonyDennis wrote on 8/14/2002, 9:52 AM
You can also use the scrub control (under the track list) or the JKL keys for this.
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