[Audacity-devel] About editing

[vincent hur <vin...@wa...>]

The sugestion about moving clip is right, you can select a range, duplicate
on second track and moving with the time-shift tool.But I have two
objection:
1/ to do one basic operation, you have to do 4 manipulations, that very
slow.
2/ you have to generate new tracks for every new clips. That's dificult if
you have a time line with 50 clip and impossible with 500.

It is necessery to put many clip on the same track.

I agree with when you write "The first step will be to specify how the user
creates and manipulates these clips" and I think I can do it.
To finish the refexion I nedd a little time, but I can explain right now
how it should work in "the big line " (french expression I hope you
understand) for me.

1/ select one clip : just click on it, it became red (selected )

2/ select a group of clip : click outside clips , and make a area with the
pointer of the mouse, all the clips wich are enterely in this area became
red end selected.so easy. And it work on several tracks together.

3/ position of the playback head :
  * click where you want to go on the time track (and scrub sound with mouse
???).
  * select a sound track right arrow jump to next head or tail clip
  * select a sound track left arrow jump to tail or head previous clip.

4/ basic fonction in the menu edition with keyboard shortcuts
  * delete selected clip(s)                                          "D"
  * cut or grab the head of selected clip(s) to playbackhead   "H"
  * cut or grab the tail of selected clip(s) to  playbackhead     "T"
  * split clip(s) at playbackhead                               "S"
  * nudge clip(s) one frame back                             "B"
  * nudge clips(s) one frame forward                       "F"

5/  drag fonction with the mouse
  * shift/click on a selected clip or group of clips ,drag with the mouse
and release the click to move the selection where you want on the same
track.
  * ctrl/click on a selected clip or group of clip ,drag with the mouse and
release the click to move the selection from one track to a auther one
(without changing the position in the time track).
  * option/click same as shift/click but duplicate the selection.

I think it's a good start for sound editing.
I hope you will understand my poor english, If you need precision, just ask
me. 

Vincent 

>> To do this in Audacity, I would select the "clip" I want to move, use
>> the Split or Duplicate command, then drag it with the time-shift tool.
>> 
>> The major limitation is that we can't have more than one "clip" in
>> a single track -- you need a track for each clip.  This is annoying
>> because it uses more space on the display, but I don't see any
>> fundamental difference in editing.  Are there specific tasks that
>> are harder in Audacity because it lacks this feature?
>> 
>> It would be nice to support multiple clips in a track.  The first step
>> will be to specify how the user creates and manipulates these clips...