I got a phone call mid recording and fumbled getting to the pause function. So I wanted to just cut out the piece of tracks on both audio and video that had the interruption. But how do I do that? I set a marker at the beginning and end of the area to cut out, and split the clip and deleted the middle portion. That obviously did not work. If I split at playhead it makes the rest of the clip go mute with no video? It must be something easy but I can find it. Please advise. Thank you.

Mark In, Mark Out, Ripple Delete.

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CraigS
Telestream Desktop Forum Moderator

Hi thanks, but that does not work. I hit "I" to mark in point then "O" to mark out point. The selected area turns purple. I then hit CMD + Del for ripple delete, and the purple highlighted part disappears and the audio/video track to the right slide to the left to join. But then I hit spacebar or play to continue, and it plays the cut out part just as if it did nothing at all... I do not understand.

Try moving the spacebar back first. Please post a screencast of an example. Ripple Delete then play is working fine for me so maybe you're doing something different. It would be more obvious to me if you recorded it so I can see what you're experiencing.

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CraigS
Telestream Desktop Forum Moderator

I would like to just select a portion of audio and remove it. Shift dragging or clicking with some sort of a selector tool or just the arrow (tool) while holding shift seems the intuitive way to select a portion of audio to delete.

The only way I can figure out how to do this is to first move the playhead (which takes me away from the audio I am looking at) to get the desired spot, then select the clip, then cmd+shift+T to split clip and then go to the out point and repeat the same steps. This is cumbersome when you do this all day long (which I do). Using the mark in and out points and then selecting the clip and deleting would be better than my current steps if that worked.

I am not trying to ripple delete and that just deletes the entire clip rather than at the in and out points. It also seems strange that ripple delete has to delete everything under the in and out points or am I missing something (which I don't doubt if I did) in these two things?

You can Mark In and Mark Out and Delete (without the Ripple).
Your comments about Ripple Delete are confusing. You say Ripple Delete deletes the entire clip but it doesn't if you mark an in and out.
They you mention that it "has to delete everything under the in and outpoints" which conflicts with your previous comment.
Ripple Delete deletes between the in and out.
Maybe I'm not understanding your explanation. Post a screencast if it'll make it easier to understand what's happening vs what you are trying to do.

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CraigS
Telestream Desktop Forum Moderator

Sorry for the confusion hopefully this helps.
http://miscellaneous.studiopri...flow/DeletingAudio.mov

Got it! Thanks. That explains it well.

You can split the clip at the start and end points of your choice (as you noted) and then delete but that's a more steps than just selection delete. I'll show this to the coders.

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CraigS
Telestream Desktop Forum Moderator

Edited: 1/11/2010 at 3:55 PM by CraigS