Translations:Basic editing/48/en
Very commonly used for smoothing or disguising recording punch in and outs, this functionality can be compared to the same as pencil or slip editing, or editing with the mouse in any of the other popular DAW software out there. Shrinking items will make them smaller, so they take up less horizontal space and thus they take up less time, which means that shrinking an item too much can effectively interrupt it prematurely and cut the audio. Extending or growing the items will do just the opposite. If you have them configured to loop (which is by default and we will cover this shortly in the following section) extending them too much will make them finish, and then repeat for some time. SO how does this all come into play when editing? Two of the most common situations already described are the most common use cases for this. They both grow and shrink items. First situation: you deleted something but it probably was too much and a word at the end of a verse is missing. What you would do is grow the item to the right:
- select the item that contains the missing word or bit
- move to the end of the item, or to right item edge by using either control plus numpad 9 or Control plus Shift plus FullStop, control plus numpad 7 or Control plus Shift plus Comma will move you to the left edge or the beginning of it instead.
- optional: set a marker there if you wish
- Use Alt plus FullStop or alt plus numpad 6 to extend or grow the right edge of the item. This will act according to your horizontal zoom
- press space to audition. If you have extended or grown the edge too much, then using alt plus comma or alt plus numpad 4 will shrink the right edge.
- in some cases, growing might not work because an item might be overlapping the edge. You should move the item that is preventing this.