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Subject:edit cut w/out timeline degradation
Posted by: shess
Date:3/25/2005 12:21:41 PM

I have a basic question about editing in Sound Forge 7.0. When making any cut -- pencil, region, etc -- the region cut will disappear and the remaining timeline will slide over to occupy the cut region.

In other editing programs I've used, such as Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and Avid, when making a cut the deleted space remains on the timeline as a deleted space. There is no collapsing of the timeline from where the cut has been made. Therefore, the master timecode has been corrupted on my project.

So I have two questions. Can you make cuts on Sound Forge 7.0 without the timeline collapsing around the cut region? If so how do you do that?

Thank you for your help.

Subject:RE: edit cut w/out timeline degradation
Reply by: MJhig
Date:3/25/2005 2:23:48 PM

Make your selection > Mute.

MJ

Subject:RE: edit cut w/out timeline degradation
Reply by: rraud
Date:3/26/2005 8:23:09 AM

The pensil tool should not change the time-line.
In addition to "Mute", I use "Overwrite", fade-in/out, "Graphic Fade", Volume. to clean-up a dialog track.

Before editing time-line sensitive material, I put a marker at the end of the file with the exact number of samples or miliseconds. (I will sometimes add regions or markers at exact minute points to better narrow it down) If it changes, you can see if a mistake has been made, corrupting the timeline.

Subject:RE: edit cut w/out timeline degradation
Reply by: mpd
Date:3/26/2005 5:09:23 PM

Most video programs don't actually edit the source files. Edits are recorded with the in point, out point, and type of edit which are saved to an EDL. The source files and EDL are used to render out the final version.

SF does not work this way. I believe Vegas does.

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