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Subject:Ripple Edits in SF 9 Posted by: cbaudio Date:10/12/2009 11:20:14 PM This may be a drop-dead simple query but I cannot figure out how to keep the timeline in place after deleting a section. The audio always closes the gap and I cannot find how to disable this function. This switch used to be available in the Options menu in previous versions of SF and was referred to by the industry wide definition of “Ripple Edit”. In Vegas Pro this is referred to as Edit Ripple or Post Edit Ripple and there is a button on the toolbar to enable or disable the ripple function.
Subject:RE: Ripple Edits in SF 9 Reply by: Chienworks Date:10/13/2009 5:04:33 AM There's no "ripple edit" switch in Sound Forge and never has been. The assumption is that if you delete something, you want it deleted, and the space it uses disappears. This is a very good assumption and is the correct behavior. If you want to have a section be silent but still exist, highlight it and use Process / Mute. This makes that section of the file silent but doesn't remove it.
Subject:RE: Ripple Edits in SF 9 Reply by: cbaudio Date:10/13/2009 7:52:56 PM "There's no "ripple edit" switch in Sound Forge and never has been." Well, I'm not going to the trouble to reload my original disk of SF 4.0 just to prove a point. Nonetheless, thanks for the confirmation. The lack of an edit ripple switch makes using SF 9 as the default editor for Vegas Pro a real PITA. The only way one can replace an unwanted region and maintain sync is to take copious notes about the size of the cut and replace it with exactly the same size.
Subject:RE: Ripple Edits in SF 9 Reply by: Chienworks Date:10/13/2009 9:23:41 PM Not true at all. Use mute if you want to silence a section. Paste on top of the waveform if you want to replace a section with something else. Neither operation changes the length at all. Both preserve the file sync exactly.
Subject:RE: Ripple Edits in SF 9 Reply by: Chienworks Date:10/13/2009 9:31:00 PM Now that i think of it, what you're doing would probably be faster and easier done right within Vegas. No need to use an external audio editor for that. Want to silence a section? Use a volume envelope, or split at the beginning and end and either delete that piece or drag it's volume level down to zero. Want to replace a section? Drag the new material right on top of it. Way easier than opening the material in Sound Forge and editing there.

Subject:Ripple Edits in SF 9

Posted by: cbaudio

Date:10/12/2009 11:20:14 PM

This may be a drop-dead simple query but I cannot figure out how to keep the timeline in place after deleting a section. The audio always closes the gap and I cannot find how to disable this function. This switch used to be available in the Options menu in previous versions of SF and was referred to by the industry wide definition of “Ripple Edit”. In Vegas Pro this is referred to as Edit Ripple or Post Edit Ripple and there is a button on the toolbar to enable or disable the ripple function.

Subject:RE: Ripple Edits in SF 9

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:10/13/2009 5:04:33 AM

There's no "ripple edit" switch in Sound Forge and never has been. The assumption is that if you delete something, you want it deleted, and the space it uses disappears. This is a very good assumption and is the correct behavior.

If you want to have a section be silent but still exist, highlight it and use Process / Mute. This makes that section of the file silent but doesn't remove it.

Subject:RE: Ripple Edits in SF 9

Reply by: cbaudio

Date:10/13/2009 7:52:56 PM

"There's no "ripple edit" switch in Sound Forge and never has been."

Well, I'm not going to the trouble to reload my original disk of SF 4.0 just to prove a point. Nonetheless, thanks for the confirmation. The lack of an edit ripple switch makes using SF 9 as the default editor for Vegas Pro a real PITA. The only way one can replace an unwanted region and maintain sync is to take copious notes about the size of the cut and replace it with exactly the same size.

Subject:RE: Ripple Edits in SF 9

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:10/13/2009 9:23:41 PM

Not true at all.

Use mute if you want to silence a section.

Paste on top of the waveform if you want to replace a section with something else.

Neither operation changes the length at all. Both preserve the file sync exactly.

Subject:RE: Ripple Edits in SF 9

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:10/13/2009 9:31:00 PM

Now that i think of it, what you're doing would probably be faster and easier done right within Vegas. No need to use an external audio editor for that.

Want to silence a section? Use a volume envelope, or split at the beginning and end and either delete that piece or drag it's volume level down to zero.

Want to replace a section? Drag the new material right on top of it.

Way easier than opening the material in Sound Forge and editing there.