Smartsound: how to cut/trimmer a track ?

[Roberto]

Scenario: I have my "beautiful" movie project ready and now I want to add some music. I already inserted some .wav, and I want to use the Smartsound to complete the missing audio of other parts of the movie.

Action: I select the smartsound song and insert to the timeline...

Result: the smartsound song goes till the beginning of the next part of the movie, which already assigned with some audio track... ok, not a big problem, as far as I can cut the smartsound and keep only the part that I need to cover part of the missing audio...

Problems: 1. the audio track can't be cut (the scissors are disabled) 2. if I shorten the smartaudio track (dragging the leftmost edge to the left), the smartsound song completely changes, because it wants to place a song end at an earliest point... and I do not like the new version, it does not fit! The original version was perfect... because it had a mid-song point release that will perfectly fit with the next audio track I want to add... so, how to do ?

Solutions: 1. I will render the audio with the lengthy smartsound, use an audio tool to cut the audio, and then replace the smartsound with the modified .wav (surely working, but a little boring...) 2. any suggestions ? ...

[Ron P.]

There's 2 options with inserting SmartSound into your time-line....

1. Auto-Trim. SmartSound will trim the audio file to the duration of your project, or free space along the track, maintaining the beginning, middle and end of the song. Of course by dragging, it will alter it, and if need be change the variation to meet the duration. This can be frustrating when, like you've discovered, have a variation that you like, and now it's been changed.

2. Set the Duration. Uncheck the Auto-trim, determine the duration of the audio file needed, then in the duration box, or clock located at the top left, beside the little clock icon, put the duration (length) of audio file needed. Now look to see if your variation is still available. If so, place your cursor at the point where you want the clip inserted, and with the audio track you want to insert it to, click on the Add to Timeline. Keep in mind that with video productions the time format is HH:MM:SS:FF... Hours: Minutes: Seconds: Frames. The far-right 2 digits are not hundredths of seconds, they are Frames. If you are in a PAL country, then you would have a maximum of 25, for NTSC that would be 29. Let me take that one step further. It depends on the Frames Per Second of your video clip/project. You could be using 15fps, so the max would be 15.

[Roberto]

Thanks Ron!