Boundary Snap Guides
- ToDo-2 Now that it is a page in its own right it may need further editing & expansion.
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Note carefully that this is distinct from the "Snap To" checkbox in Selection Toolbar which snaps selection edges (or the cursor) to a chosen unit of time. |
When you take any of the following actions:
- Creating a selection with the mouse
- Modifying the selection boundaries
- Sliding / time-shifting a clip
then the selection boundaries or the boundaries of the clip you're time-shifting will snap to the following locations:
- The start or end of any track or clip
- The start or end of any label
- Time zero (0 on the Timeline)
Whenever snapping is taking place, a yellow vertical line is shown to indicate that snapping is taking place. To err on the side of caution, if there is more than one logical place within a couple of pixels at which to snap, Audacity will not snap anywhere. In that case, zoom in and try again.
In the image below, we're dragging a clip in the "Guest" track leftwards with the mouse. When the clip reaches the right-hand boundary of the clip above it, a yellow vertical guide line appears showing the position of the snap boundary through all the tracks. Now that the guide line has appeared, we can release the mouse and the dragged clip will be perfectly aligned with the one above:
A Snap-to Guide appears (the vertical yellow line) when the selection has snapped to the start or end of an audio clip from any of the tracks.
If there are two boundaries very close to one another and it's not obvious which one is better, Audacity will not snap to either. If you want to snap to one of them, zoom in so that you can clearly position the mouse closer to one than the other.
